The True Fit™: Fashion Career Coaching Programme

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Take a clear step forward in your fashion career in this 12-week coaching programme designed for experienced women in the fashion industry who are ready to progress, pivot, or build something of your own in a way that actually fits who you are today.

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You’ve built a career you’re proud of over the years, but something about where you are now just doesn’t feel quite right anymore.

For some, the relentless pace and pressure of the fashion industry have taken their toll over the years and have now become unsustainable.

For others, it’s reaching a level that you’ve worked so hard to get to but it feels flatter than you expected when you get there.

Or you know you’re capable of more, but it’s not clear what that actually looks like in practice.

You might be:

• Going for promotions, but not quite landing the roles and not sure why
• Unchallenged or disconnected from work that used to motivate you
• Navigating leadership, pressure, or complex team dynamics without space to think
• Questioning whether to stay, move, reshape your role, or finally start the business you’ve been thinking about for months


You’re still the same ambitious high achiever you’ve always been.

You want your next stage of your fashion career to fit the stage of your life you’re in now - not compete with it.

When something no longer fits:

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What if it looked different instead?

🤍 You’ve reconnected with the work you love, and your fire is back.

🤍 You’ve set clear boundaries and maintain them in a way that feels natural, without damaging the relationships you’ve built.

🤍 The pressure and expectations are still high, but you’re no longer bracing for impact every Monday. You know what you’re building and how you want to operate.

🤍 You’re no longer weighing up multiple possible futures. You have one clear direction - commercially viable, aligned with what you want, and something you can actually move on.

🤍 Your career supports the life you want to live, rather than constantly competing with it.

🤍 You trust your judgement again. You’re not replaying conversations, second-guessing decisions, or holding back in rooms you’re ready for.

Most clients don’t leave fashion.

They build their true fit in an industry they’ve always loved.

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The True Fit™ Journey

This is structured, one-to-one coaching designed to help you understand what’s really going on and move forward intentionally and confidently.

Phase 1: The Pattern Edit

Before we begin, you’ll complete The Pattern Edit: a reflective workbook designed to surface the patterns running through your career so far and where you want to go next.

In our first session, I reflect any emerging themes to you and together, we begin mapping a clear, grounded vision for what you want this next chapter to feel and look like.

This is the foundation for everything that follows. It’s often the first time clients see their situation clearly.

We'll also use my Fit Check Tool™ to define the non-negotiables your career must meet now - the level of challenge, creativity, flexibility and influence required for you to perform at your best.

Phase 2: The Reclaim

With that clarity in place, we focus on what comes next.

We shape a direction that works for you and move through the decisions, conversations, and changes that come with it.

This is where you stop circling the same questions and start moving forward with confidence, with the accountability support you need to stay on track.

Each session builds upon the last and remains fully flexible to what you need most.

“After two decades in the industry, I felt stuck, drained, and unsure where to begin… I now have my own consultancy and a career that feels aligned with my life as a mother and creator.”

— Lu, ex-senior buyer and founder of Luthentic brand consultancy

How we work together:

🤍 6 x 90-minute sessions over 12 weeks
🤍A structured pre-partnership reflective journaling workbook
🤍 A personalised strategic roadmap tailored to your chosen direction
🤍 Handwritten follow-up notes and tailored reflection prompts after each session to facilitate
🤍 WhatsApp/email support Monday - Friday

Throughout our 12 weeks, every session opens with a review of what you committed to and what moved forward. The WhatsApp access, the post-session notes, the bi-weekly rhythm - all of it is designed to keep you accountable between sessions, not just during them.

Investment: £1495 | Payment plans available

What Clients Achieve Through The True Fit™

My clients range from junior to senior level, across a wide range of areas within fashion - from buying to PR, and marketing to creative direction.

They leave with a clear direction, the confidence to back themselves, and a way of working that actually fits their life.

This can look like progression within your current role, a career change in the fashion industry, or building something of your own.

Previous client results include:

• Securing a promotion after months of getting knocked back without any feedback as to why
• Launching their own styling business, with clear services, confident pricing and their first clients secured

They’ve found their True Fit.

Pippa Mellor, clienteling strategy consultant for luxury retail brands

After two decades in the fashion industry, I knew something had to change, but I didn’t know where to begin. I had a great job on paper and a stable salary, yet I felt disconnected and drained.

Through our sessions, I gained the clarity and courage to launch my own consultancy and build a career that truly reflects who I am.

What’s special about Pippa is not just what she says, but how she holds space. She helped me connect the dots in ways I couldn’t see on my own.

I’m now building a career that feels aligned with my values and the life I actually want to live.

— Fashion & Lifestyle Brand Consulant (Ex Senior Buyer)

This is for you if:

  • You’ve built a solid fashion career but are questioning your next step

  • You want to feel more confident in your decisions and communication

  • You’re navigating progression, leadership, or a potential career change

  • You want a confidential, considered space with a qualified coach

  • You’re ready to move things forward, not stay in overthinking

This is deeper, more considered work for women who want to understand what’s really going on under the surface and build something that lasts.

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About me

I spent over a decade in the fashion industry, working my way into leadership roles at NET-A-PORTER and MATCHES. From the outside, it looked successful, behind the glossy surface I was doubting myself, pushing through long hours, and questioning whether I could realistically do this for the next 30 years until I retire.

In 2024, I was made redundant. It gave me the space I needed to stop and think properly about what I actually wanted next.

I trained as an ILM Level 7 Executive Coach (EMCC Senior Practitioner) and have since built a portfolio career within the fashion industry, working as both a clienteling consultant and a fashion career coach, with the flexibility, challenge and creativity I didn’t know I’d been missing.

Coaching played a huge role in that shift. It helped me see my options more clearly and trust my own decisions in a way I hadn’t before.

That’s the work I do with my clients now - helping you step back, see your situation properly, and build the confidence to move forward in a way that actually works for you.

I came to coaching wanting a more sustainable work set-up, after finding myself in an all-or-nothing pattern.

Through our sessions, I identified what really mattered to me and where I was making decisions based on other people’s expectations.

I now have a working arrangement that genuinely fits alongside my life.

— Director of Communications at a lifestyle and wellness agency
Pippa Mellor is a career coach for women in fashion and a luxury clienteling solutions consultant.

Ready to redesign what comes next?

Let’s have a confidential chat to explore whether The True Fit™ is the next step for you.

We’ll talk through where you are, what you’re navigating, and whether it feels like the right fit to work together.

Questions about working together?

If yours isn't covered here, drop me a message and we can chat anything through.