The Lawyer Who Learnt to Listen: How Larissa Hawkins Is Rewriting the Rules of Career Coaching

There is a particular kind of career advice that sounds useful and does nothing. You've heard it. 'Follow your passion.' 'Network more.' 'Update your LinkedIn.' It arrives in listicles and lunch breaks, well-meaning and essentially hollow. What it never accounts for is the messy, specific, quietly urgent reality of being a person who has outgrown their work, or never quite fitted it in the first place.

Larissa Hawkins knows that reality better than most. Before founding GlassFrog, she was a high-achieving employment lawyer, qualified ahead of the curve, and working as Employment Counsel for a global telecoms business before the age of 29. On paper: impressive. In practice: a slow accumulation of evidence that the work, however excellent she was at it, wasn't the point. She had seen, from the inside, what poor workplace culture does to people. She had lived, at a pace most people don't sustain, what burnout actually costs. And she had arrived at the uncomfortable, clarifying conclusion that her real gift wasn't for precedent, it was for people.

So she left. Qualified as a coach whilst travelling. And built GlassFrog.

Coaching That Cuts Through the Corporate Noise

What GlassFrog offers is deceptively simple to describe and genuinely difficult to find: coaching and consultancy that operates on a human-to-human level, with no corporate bluster and no one-size-fits-all frameworks. For individuals, that means one-to-one career coaching for people who feel stuck, misaligned, burned out, or quietly certain that something needs to change, even if they can't yet name what. Larissa works with clients navigating career change, considering self-employment, managing ADHD (diagnosed or not) in a professional context, or simply trying to understand what they actually want from work before it's too late to ask.

Her background as an employment lawyer isn't just a neat origin story. It gives her a structural understanding of how organisations hire, how cultures fail, and why good people leave, insights that most coaches simply don't have access to. She has sat on the other side of the table. She understands the recruitment process, the HR dynamics, the systemic gaps that swallow capable people whole.

'It's not about us. It's never been about us. We are changing cultures, helping people change their lives, and being real with each other. That's huge. It's a privilege to be part of someone's story like that.', Larissa Hawkins, Founder, GlassFrog

For businesses, GlassFrog's culture consultancy works with organisations that are ready to take retention and belonging seriously, particularly those navigating change, whether that's a merger, a period of conflict, or a leadership team that's finally ready to look honestly at what's happening inside. Larissa also runs the Career-Change Considerate Employer Badge, a quietly radical scheme that helps forward-thinking businesses signal their openness to candidates with broader, less linear experience.

None of it is accidental. Every service GlassFrog offers is rooted in the same belief: that the best coaching begins when someone feels safe enough to be completely, unapologetically themselves. Warm, rigorous and refreshingly honest, Larissa's style puts clients at ease from the first session, and then, gently but firmly, gets them moving.

Pricing and coaching packages are available at weareglassfrog.com, and GlassFrog can be found on Instagram and LinkedIn at @weareglassfrog.