What Makes The Difference

What Makes the Difference CIC is coaching with a difference. Founded by Rich Hilton and Ali Baird, we are dedicated to helping you transition smoothly to civilian life after a career in the Armed Forces. This transition is not just about finding a new job or moving to a new location; it’s about adapting to a new community, culture, and ways of operating, where values and responses are individual rather than uniform across an organisation. We help you acquire the essential skills to establish your safe perimeter, adjust your boundaries and responses to fit civilian life, and build a sense of belonging in this new environment.

We support you in developing an enhanced capacity for curiosity, resilience, and self-advocacy, working with you to enable a better way of perceiving the world and the people around you. You will learn about your patterns of behaviour and thinking, and how to adjust them to fit the environment around you and what you need to be the best version of yourself.

We provide a non-judgmental and welcoming environment where you can develop and build the critical life skills you need to thrive in a civilian community.