Careers / Life Coaching

"Stephen Grant has a great ability to relate to and develop effective relationships with young people. He helps them to identify their own strengths, encourages them to persevere and advises them to seize and create opportunities in their respective environments. Aside from delivering successful career guidance workshops over the past few years at TCC, Stephen mentors a number of our students. Both students and their parents comment on his great help. He spends considerable time communicating with stakeholders. He ensures that parents are kept up to date on their child, while gaining the parents' perspective on the student. Stephen is easy to work with and he has a genuine desire to work with students to guide them educationally and socially. He is particularly good at supporting students who struggle with relationships as they navigate their individual pathways in a chaotic and ever-changing world that can be intimidating and stressful for youth today."

"Throughout the transition period from high school, university, and into the workforce and beyond, Stephen has consistently been a supportive mentor to me. Teaching that the conventional pathways to achieving goals are not always linear and to embrace expansion and curiosity. Stephen helped foster a confidence which has carried me through many phases of life and has allowed me to be more receptive to change and trying new things. I highly recommend getting in contact with Stephen if you are seeking guidance and support from someone who is knowledgeable and truly cares about their clients."

"I'm a quiet person by nature, but Stephen has taught me to have confidence in myself and my capabilities. He has helped me to lay a foundation of leadership experience and mindfulness in the things I do that has helped me tailor my approach to challenges, both personal and work related, to a method that works for me. I can comfortably embrace my quietness, while also being able to step out of my comfort zone when needed to achieve my goals."

"Stephen has helped me continually be diligent with my work and has always encouraged me to do my best. He has taught me to think critically in order to improve upon skills whether it is personal, work or study related. Over the years, he has also shown me the importance in having discipline and diligence in order to achieve long term goals. He continues to help me grow confident in areas related to leadership."

"Stephen has been a constant help throughout my schooling years. After my transition into mainstream education, he has been encouraging, uplifting and helpful. School wasn't my kind of niche but he told me that I could do it, that I was smart enough to make it through to finish my year 12. At the end of the day, I ended up completing the HSC, becoming a prefect and getting into university doing Biotechnology. Stephen has also been a constant mentor and has kept me in good spirits, also teaching me patience. He has also pushed me in a positive way to unlock my hidden capabilities in subjects I once completely disregarded due to my lack of confidence. He helped me through my journey to Year 11 and 12. Because of him, I was able to achieve goals and push myself in ways I never would have done if he hadn't been there for me."

"The various skills that Mr. Grant has taught me have stayed with me for life, and aided me in many situations including my career prospects and opportunities. I have made many friends abroad as a result of his guidance. His help during my high school years has influenced my post-secondary success more than any teacher. He has taught me a degree of balance, self-discipline and self-confidence that serves me to this day. Mr. Grant is a highly skilled educator with much life experience, including thriving in a foreign country (no easy feat). I heartly recommend him to anyone who is pondering accessing any of the skills and services that Mr. Grant offers."

 "During my junior high school years, and continuing into my life as a young adult, Stephen Grant has been both a great teacher and a fantastic mentor to me. He has helped me overcome challenges in all aspects of my life, whether it be academic pursuits including my studies of Japanese language and culture, sports such as martial arts training, and even offering social and life guidance which helped me navigate those tougher years of my life. Stephen has encouraged me to open my mind and consider a much broader spectrum of thinking, and instilled in me that I should always strive to learn and grow in areas which are enriching and valuable rather than those which are more socially conventional. Stephen Grant has been a major influence in my development as a person and I would encourage anyone needing guidance to seek his help, as his wisdom and knowledge in all areas mentioned is incredibly in-depth and valuable."

 "My teenage son and l worked with Stephen in person, as well as from interstate, for a period of approx three years. In that time, my son went from a very anxious child who was too afraid to go to school, felt bullied and was petrified of thunder and insects, to one who has stepped up to be the best he can be. Stephen sought to understand my son’s issues, working with his confidence. Through mentoring, counselling, guiding, humour and story sharing, that he was normal, and wasn’t alone in his struggles.  

My son is almost 16 now, and enjoying going to school the majority of the time. He has embraced his differences and has a good group of school friends for the first time since he was 7-8 years old. He has taken up “cubing” performing at school assemblies (in front of 1400 odd secondary aged boys) in a different state, and continues to put his best foot forward. Heartfelt thanks Stephen for your wise counsel for both myself and my son, helping him build resilience and helping me to support his transition to a productive member of society."

"I would like to express my sincere thanks to Stephen for his unwavering support and advice, mentally, physical, and spiritual, to our son during the final years of his high school education. Stephen’s dedication to our son’s wellbeing and attitude to his martial arts and Japanese language and culture training not only placed our son in good stead for his schooling it also gave him direction and purpose for his future years. 

I would highly recommend Stephen and Global Language and Culture to any student or parent looking for professional martial arts training, Japanese language and culture coaching or general tutoring."