Jamie Has Walked This Path
I’m Jamie Wallace — a Professional Coach, NLP Practitioner and Timeline Coaching Practitioner, and published author based in Argyll, Scotland.
I didn’t arrive at coaching through a straight line. I got here the way most people get to the things that matter — through crossroads, wrong turns, long walks, and the occasional moment of standing at the edge of everything wondering what comes next.
I grew up in the Scottish countryside, the son of a family that valued hard work, honesty and showing up. I learned early that putting your hand up — for the difficult task, the unfamiliar experience, the thing nobody else wants to do — is almost always worth it.
I’ve worked in hospitality and cash management at sports stadia, racecourses and entertainment venues across northern Britain — from Rangers FC to The Royal Yacht Britannia — and in the public sector, and the third sector. I’ve lived in Germany and Singapore, spent time in France and Portugal, walked to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain three times, and opened my door in Glasgow to more than thirty strangers from across the world — an experience that became a book of bilingual Gaelic poetry.
After some award-winning success of setting up Glasgow’s Gaelic Meetup which aimed to bridge the gap between Gaelic learners and native speakers, I spent several years building something that didn’t exist before — a Gaelic learning community in Clydesdale, from nothing. I designed and produced a full language course from scratch, built an online learning platform, formed a committee who organised a public open day in Lanark that had never been attempted before in that community. That experience — of holding a vision others couldn’t yet see, and building the coalition to make it real — is woven through the way I coach.
I hold an MSc in Psychology from the Open University, an MA with Honours in Gaelic from the University of Glasgow, and qualifications in coaching, NLP, Timeline Therapy and counselling skills. I am currently completing a Level 5 Coaching Apprenticeship with BPP University to refresh my knowledge of the field and my skills.
In 2019, I walked away from my secure tenancy in Glasgow with nothing — no furniture, no possessions, no plan — and started again. That experience, and the 500-mile Camino Francés that followed, shaped everything about the way I coach.
I know what it feels like to be stuck. I know what it takes to move. And I know that the answers are almost always already within you — they just need the right conditions, and the right questions, to emerge.
I am rooted in Scotland. I am connected to the world. And I am genuinely glad you found your way here.
Tha fàilte ruibh an seo. Daonnan.
You are welcome here. Always.
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Colmcille Coaching carries professional indemnity insurance of £1,500,000 and public liability insurance of £10,000,000 through Marsh Commercial (Oxygen Professional Liability Insurance, underwritten by Hiscox). Cover includes coaching, NLP, hypnotherapy, walking and talking work, and wellbeing coaching. Full certificate available on request.
Qualifications and credentials
Watch and Listen
Coach of the Month — SPEAKup Challenge, August 2021
In this interview, Jamie was named Coach of the Month by the SPEAKup national coaching development programme. He talks about building a coaching community, supporting fellow coaches, and what it really takes to build a sustainable coaching practice.
“Building a coaching career is a marathon, not a sprint.”
“Hard Work” — A Poem by Jamie Wallace
Jamie was named runner-up in a poetry competition hosted by The Psychologist magazine, published by the British Psychological Society. The theme was “from poverty to flourishing.” In this video he performs a reading of the poem — a reflection on life’s difficulties, personal growth, and what it means to truly flourish.