The True Fit™: Fashion Career Coaching Programme
Take a clear step forward in your fashion career in this 12-week coaching programme, designed for experienced, ambitious people who are ready to progress, pivot, build or grow something of their own, and do it in a way that feels right and sustainable for the future.
You’ve already built a career or business you’re proud of, but know getting to the next level will require something different from you.
You might know exactly what you want - a promotion, a bigger leadership role, or to grow a business of your own - but find yourself second-guessing how you’re going to get there.
Or you might know you’re ready for something to change, but need the space to work out what that actually looks like.
You might be:
Working towards a promotion or senior leadership role, but needing to build the confidence to operate at that level
• Building or scaling a fashion business, but struggling to get out of the day-to-day and focus on what will actually move it forward
• Navigating leadership, pressure or complex team dynamics without enough space to think
• Questioning whether you want a career change, a different role, or simply a different way of working
• Juggling lots of ideas and priorities and struggling to work out what actually deserves your attention
You’re ambitious and you still want more, but something about how you get there needs to change.
When you’re ready for the next step in your fashion career
What if it looked different instead?
🤍 You trust your judgement and back yourself in the rooms you’re ready for.
🤍 You’re operating more confidently at the level you know you’re capable of.
🤍 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.
🤍 If you’re building a business, you’re spending less time reacting to everything and more time focusing on the work that will actually grow it.
🤍 You’re no longer weighing up multiple possible futures. You know what you want to move towards and what needs to happen next.
🤍 The way you’re working feels ambitious and sustainable for the future.
The True Fit™ Journey
The True Fit is structured 1:1 coaching, but what we work on is shaped around you, your career or business, and what you want to achieve.
Before we begin
Before our first session, you’ll complete a detailed reflective workbook looking at your career or business so far, where you are now and where you want to get to.
You’ll send it back to me 48 hours before we meet. I read the whole thing beforehand and pull out the themes, patterns and areas I think it would be useful for us to explore together.
Clients often tell me they get a lot of clarity just from completing this part.
Our first session
We debrief the workbook together, explore what’s come up in more depth and I reflect back the themes and patterns I’ve noticed.
From there, we get clear on what you want from our work together and I shape a loose guide for our sessions around the areas that will be most useful to focus on.
Over the next 12 weeks
We have six 90-minute sessions, usually fortnightly, with support and accountability between sessions to help you keep moving.
There’s a clear direction to our work, but it’s never rigid. If something comes up along the way - a difficult conversation, a new opportunity, a decision you need to make or a shift in priorities - we can work with what you need in that moment.
“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 consultancyHow we work together:
The True Fit™ is a 12-week private 1:1 coaching partnership, designed around you, what you want to achieve and the professional or business context you're operating in.
My approach is executive coaching-led, which means you set the agenda but I also bring 15+ years of experience working and leading in fashion, so you don't have to spend our sessions explaining the industry or the context you're operating in.
Where my experience could be useful, and with your permission, I can share relevant context or approaches I've seen work elsewhere. You decide what, if anything, you want to take from it.
What’s included
🤍 6 x 90-minute private coaching sessions over 12 weeks, giving us the time and depth to work through what’s really going on rather than simply addressing what’s most immediate
🤍 In-depth reflective pre-work, reviewed by me before our first session so we can identify the themes, patterns and priorities that will inform our work together
🤍 A personalised focus for our work, shaped around your goals and evolving as your thinking, circumstances and priorities develop
🤍 Personal follow-up notes and tailored reflection prompts after each session to deepen the thinking and keep momentum between our conversations
🤍 Direct access to me via WhatsApp and email Monday–Friday, so you have a confidential space to sense-check decisions, work through something as it happens or keep moving between sessions
Throughout our 12 weeks, we regularly come back to what you want to achieve, what has shifted and where your attention will have the greatest impact next.
There is structure and accountability, but no prescribed formula. The work is shaped around you and what will make the biggest difference to where you're trying to get to.
Investment: £1,495 | Payment plans available
What Clients Achieve Through The True Fit™
My clients are experienced, ambitious people working across the fashion industry — from senior leaders within established businesses to stylists, consultants, creatives and founders building businesses of their own.
What they want to achieve looks different. For some, it’s about progression and stepping into a bigger role. For others, it’s building or growing a business, making a career change, or finding a way to keep progressing without the way they work becoming unsustainable.
Previous client results include:
Having the confidence to turn down a job offer that wasn’t at the right level, and being offered a more senior role and salary role instead
Launching a creative mentoring service that generated three times their previous income within the first three months
Securing a promotion after months of getting knocked back without clear feedback as to why
Launching a styling business with clear services, confident pricing and their first clients secured
Creating a more sustainable working arrangement after recognising an all-or-nothing pattern at work
About me
I’m Pippa Mellor, an EMCC Accredited Senior Practitioner and ILM Level 7 Executive Coach, with more than 15 years' experience working in the fashion industry.
Before becoming a coach and consultant, I built my career across luxury retail, ecommerce and personal shopping, starting on the shop floor at Liberty London before going on to lead international personal shopping teams at NET-A-PORTER and MATCHES.
Today, I combine that industry experience with professional coaching to work with experienced fashion professionals navigating their own next stage, whether that's stepping into a bigger role, making a career change or building and growing a business of their own.
I see coaching as a partnership. My clients are smart, capable people and I don't assume I know what's right for them better than they do. I bring the distance to notice patterns you might not see yourself, the questions that make you think differently, and the challenge to test assumptions you may have stopped questioning.
We work out what needs to change together, but the decisions and answers remain yours.
Ready for the next step in your fashion career or business?
If The True Fit™ sounds like the kind of support you’re looking for, book a free 30-minute discovery call.
We’ll talk about where you are now, what you’d like to change or achieve, and what you’re looking for from coaching. You can ask me any questions, and we’ll see whether working together feels like a good fit.
Questions about working together?
If yours isn't covered here, drop me a message and we can chat anything through.
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Most career or business programmes start with tactics - CVs, interview prep, confidence frameworks, positioning - and assume the clarity and self-trust are already there.
The women I work with don’t lack capability or experience. What’s missing is space to properly unpack why things no longer fit and what actually needs to change before the next move makes sense.
The True Fit™ is 1:1, industry-specific, and deliberately slower at the start. We work on the patterns, pressure, and decision-making that have kept you stuck first. That’s why the practical work later - whether that’s senior interviews, negotiating, stepping into a bigger role, or laying foundations for independence - actually lands.
There’s no fixed curriculum and no generic pathway. Every session is shaped around you, your context, and where you’re heading. It’s thoughtful, strategic work that holds up in the real world of fashion.
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You’re likely ready if:
You’re at a tipping point, so know something has to give, and you can’t keep going like this
You’re ready to move forward, not sit in the same loop for another year
You’re open to being supported and respectfully challenged
You have around 7–10+ years’ experience in fashion at a senior level
This probably isn’t right for you if:
You want someone to tell you exactly what to do
You’re looking for quick surface level fixes rather than deeper change
You’re looking for a full business launch programme (this work focuses on clarity and foundations, not building everything at once)
If you’re unsure, the simplest next step is a free, confidential 30-minute chat. We’ll talk through where you are and whether this is actually the right support for you.
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That’s completely normal - and it’s often the reason people come to this work.
Most clients arrive feeling societal pressure to have it all figured out. They don’t. The confusion around “Is it still fashion? A different role? Going independent?” is usually part of what’s keeping you stuck in the first place.
The first two sessions - The Pattern Edit and The Fit Check - are designed to work this out properly. We surface what you actually need next, not what looks good on paper or what you think you should want.
Once you’re clear on what energises you and what has to be present for work to feel sustainable, the direction becomes much clearer. From there, we tailor the remaining sessions to support the path you’re choosing and build your version of next.
You don’t need to arrive with the answer - we’ll work through that together.
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The guaranteed outcome is clarity.
Everyone who comes through this work understands themselves better - how they make decisions, where they get stuck, and what they actually want next. Confidence, boundaries, and self-trust improve because that’s what we work on directly.
External outcomes vary. Some clients land senior roles or step into Director-level positions. Others decide not to chase the next title and instead build something of their own. Some do both over time.
What this work gives you is the internal stability to make those decisions properly, rather than reacting from pressure, exhaustion, or fear of getting it wrong.
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Most people don’t come to this work when things are calm.
The programme is designed around demanding roles and full schedules. We meet every two weeks so you have space between sessions, rather than adding more pressure. After each session, I send reflection questions within 24 hours - usually 20–30 minutes of journaling to help things settle and integrate.
You also have WhatsApp access for moments when something comes up in real time - a difficult conversation, a decision you’re looping on, or a situation where you want to respond differently.
Many clients find that once we start working together, they feel less overwhelmed - not because the job suddenly gets easier, but because they’re clearer, less reactive, and not carrying everything alone.
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Yes, completely.
Everything we discuss stays between us. I don’t share client details, full names, or anything about our work together with anyone - including your company, colleagues, or other clients.
Any testimonials you see have been shared with explicit consent, and only first names or initials are used (with permission).
This work only works if you feel psychologically safe enough to be honest - including about things that might feel uncomfortable to say out loud about your career, leadership, or the industry. Confidentiality isn’t optional here; it’s fundamental.
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If you complete the first two sessions and feel this isn’t the right fit for you, you can request a full refund within the first four weeks.
After that point, payments made are non-refundable, but you’re not obliged to continue with future payments if you choose to stop early.
In practice, the workbook and first session usually make it very clear whether this depth of work resonates with you. I’ve never had to process a refund, but the option is there so you can enter the work without feeling trapped.
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I understand how unpredictable fashion can be.
If you give at least 24 hours’ notice, we can reschedule your session within the programme timeframe. Sessions cancelled with less than 24 hours’ notice, or missed entirely, are treated as complete and can’t be rescheduled.
For genuine emergencies - serious illness, bereavement, or major unforeseen situations - we’ll handle it by mutual agreement, regardless of notice.
I’m supportive and flexible where it matters, but this programme works best when both of us are committed and treat the time seriously.
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No, I work with clients globally via Zoom. As long as we can find session times that work across time zones and you’re comfortable working in English, location isn’t an issue.
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Clients who get the most from this work usually recognise themselves in a few of these points:
They’re thoughtful and self-aware, and open to looking honestly at their patterns
They’re ready to make decisions rather than staying in the same loop
They take responsibility for following through on the actions we identify together
They’re willing to try things differently, even when it feels uncomfortable or unfamiliar
They use the space between sessions to reflect, apply what we’ve discussed, and notice what shifts
They don’t need to have everything figured out when we start. What matters is being engaged in the process and prepared to act on the clarity we create together.
If that sounds like you, you’ll get real value from this programme.