Reach your full potential with
Strengths-Based Coaching & Supervision with Jess
At Set Free Aotearoa, I am passionate about equipping and inspiring others to reach their full potential. Through intentional questions and a proven coaching process, I will help you find greater balance and meaning in your life and work.
- WHAT WE DO -
Coaching & Supervision
COACHING PACKAGES:
INDIVIDUAL STRENGTHS
This 90 minute session is a great way to discover your natural talents and explore how you can leverage them for the good of yourself and those around you.
When developed, these natural talents become powerful strengths that not only benefit you but also positively impact those around you. Greater self-awareness can help you overcome challenges, advance your career, or turn long-held goals into reality.
Before our coaching session, you’ll complete the CliftonStrengths assessment online, which will provide a report of your Top 5 strengths. In our session, we’ll dive deeper into these results and explore how to leverage them for your personal and professional growth.
Explore your strengths with coaching in person or online.
PARTNERSHIP STRENGTHS
This 2 hour Partnership Coaching Session is for those who have personal or professional partnerships they want to strengthen. It will focus on how each person’s strengths can contribute to their common purpose or current challenge.
The best partnerships happen when you join forces with someone who has strengths that complement yours. You can accomplish together what you cannot accomplish on your own.
Each person in the Partnership will need to have an 90min Individual Coaching Session first.
TEAM STRENGTHS
Team coaching is an opportunity for your team to be encouraged in what is going well, celebrate and understand their differences and explore what each individual can contribute.
A team’s success is dependent on their ability to work together to achieve their common purpose or overcome a challenge. For teams to function at their best, each individual needs to know how they can contribute.
Each person in the Team will need to have an 90min Individual Coaching Session first.
Strengths-Based Coaching
CliftonStrengths is a coaching tool I use to help individuals, partnerships and teams discover and develop their strengths, define their core values, determine their priorities and discern their purpose.
CliftonStrengths provides a language to describe what we do best and highlights what we do well in our roles and relationships.
The online assessment tool identifies an individual’s natural talents in order of 34 themes, which have been researched by Gallup for over 40 years. When discovered and developed, these natural talents become powerful strengths that not only benefit the individual but also positively impact those around them.
I am an Accredited Coach with Strengths Network and provide face-to-face coaching in the Eastern Bay of Plenty or online for anyone around New Zealand.
Strengths-Based Supervision
I provide Strengths-Based Supervision for anyone working with people in a professional or personal capacity. My supervision experience is predominantly with youth and community workers.
Whether you are in a paid professional role or a volunteer working within a community or church organisation, I can help you develop your self & other awareness, leadership ability and work together towards your goals for the future.
In supervision I am a sounding board for your wonderings or worries and I ask intentional questions to get you reflecting on your practice; what is going on for you personally in your professional or volunteer work with others.
I can provide Supervision face-to-face in the Eastern Bay of Plenty or online for anyone around New Zealand.
Every one of us has natural talents that are visible and needing room to grow, or hidden and waiting to be discovered
Kia ora, my name is Jess.
SET FREE Aotearoa was birthed in response to my own experience of being SET FREE when I had an encounter with God as a teenager. I knew in that moment that I wanted to help people. As I have journeyed through life, that desire has shifted slightly. I now want to help people help themselves.
Ko wai au? Who am I?
Ko Hikurangi tōku maunga, Ko Otara tōku awa, Ko Hukuwai tōku moana, No Ōpōtiki āhau. Ko Ngāti Pākehā tōku iwi, No Kōtirana, Airana, Ingarangi me Timaru oku tīpuna. Ko Brian Young tōku mātua, Ko Kathleen Young tōku whaea, Ko Michael Young tōku teina, Ko Jared Suisted tāku hoa tāne, Ko Jess Suisted tāku ingoa.
My husband, Jared, and I have been married since 2013 and we live in the beautiful town of Ōpōtiki in the Eastern Bay of Plenty of New Zealand, my tūrangawaewae (place to stand). I have been working with people in schools, churches and social services since 2010 and have qualifications in both Youth Work and Social Work.
SET FREE Aotearoa is my way of sharing what is in my food basket with those whom I work alongside. Coupled with the contribution of their food basket, I believe we will thrive, and our families, communities and nation will be SET FREE, from whatever it is that holds us back from reaching our full potential.

“Nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou ka ora ai te iwi.”
“With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive.”
"I can't recommend Strengths Coaching with Jess highly enough - she is passionate about people achieving their potential, cares deeply, listens wholeheartedly and made really insightful suggestions during our session.
I came away with a much better understanding of how I already am personally using my Top 5 Strengths, how I can develop each further and how my strengths can be used together as more than just a sum of their parts."
- Rebekah Lamb
"I really appreciated Jess’ wisdom as she guided me through the Strengths Coaching process. She helped me uncover a few things I hadn’t realised were part of what made me tick, and that has made a massive difference to how I see myself and what direction I take moving forward. Jess' coaching was definitely a helpful and timely part of my journey and helped alter my direction for the better."
- Mark Forrest
Jess has incredible intuition, perception, empathy and a listening ear. She helped me to develop the links between my strengths and how I can use them in what I would call my weak areas. One of the most helpful things about my session with Jess was how we ended with goals and strategies that I can implement to move forward.
Strengths Coaching has given me a language and a tool box to be more productive in my work and a means to understand others better too."
- Kim Scott