Author, Coach, Photojournalist, and Stylist
Cassandra Gaisford is a change expert with a passion for helping people and organisations live with passion, confidence and zest. She uses her favourite skills and passions for communicating, marketing, change and creativity to transform lives, uplift, inspire and delight.
Boost your happiness and success
Cassandra is an expert in happiness - both at work and in life. She is the author of Happy at work: for mid-lifers. Read the happy@work blog and receive free updates and tips to live a happier, more passionate life. Listen to some inspiring stories of mid-lifers who have reinvented their careers and lived again, click here»
Televsion, radio, and other media
Cassandra is regularly featured in the media including the National Radio, The Dominion Post, The New Zealand Herald and Television New Zealand, and is an experienced speaker and commentator on change management, employee engagement, leadership, career enhancement and personal branding. Give yourself a boost and check out some of her inspiring media footage here »
Blogs and Newsletter
Sign up to her free e-Newsletter, read the powerful creativity, happy@work blog or The Colour Girl blog or watch videos about the transformational power of colour, creativity, happiness and passion.
Buy online
On this website you can purchase books, or download ebooks to help improve your life and career, or transport you to fictional places and events. You can also purchase her paintings and photographs to add a splash of colour to your home or work environment.
Career and life coaching
Visit Cassandra at Worklife Solutions and find out about her popular "passion driven work" career coaching, "free to be me life" life coaching and customised solutions to help you live and work with passion.
Colour Analysis and Personal Style coaching
Using her passion for colour and talent for personal styling and branding Cassandra has created a new service just for you. Find out more about TheColourgirl and the fabulous range of services designed to help you feel good and look fabulous inside-out.
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Inspiring Quotes...
“As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.” ~ Justice of the United States Supreme Court
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
~ Denis Diderot, French philosopher and writer
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” ~Franklin D Roosevelt
"The primary cause of unhappiness is not the situation, but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is." ~ Eckhart Tolle
“I want us to all face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is merely to survive. Surviving is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. Use your power. You deserve better.” ~ Michael Moore
"In everyone's life, at some point of time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the human spirit"~Albert Schweitzer
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." ~Coco Chanel
"When men are rightly occupied, then amusement grows out of their work as the colour petals out of a fruitful flower. When they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse of the body. But now having no true business, we pour our masculine energy into the false business of money making" ~ John Ruskin
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Latest News
Feb 22 2010
Television One interviews Cassandra for tips on how people can dress for success. Click here to view»
Feb 06 2010
"Don't wait - create a great job" click here to read Cassandra's latest NZ Herald article »
Jan 22 2010
"Following passion bears fruit" click here to read Cassandra's previous NZ Herald article and see her photos »
Dec 12 2009
"Self-made story an inspiration to others" - NZ Herald interiews Cassandra click here to view »
Dec 2009
A practical and inspiring guide for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
Would you like to wake up every day looking forward to going to work? Do you want a job that is in harmony with your passions, values and deepest interests? Do you want a job that is deeply rewarding and gives you a sense of meaning and purpose? That allows you to be who you truly are and who you truly want to be?
Get happy now!
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Cassandra interviewed on Radio Live »
Golden Years OE' gets the green light
Happy@work Online Survey
Clarify the causes of your career dissatisfaction. Please click here to complete our online happy@work survey
Happy@work interviews
Listen to some inspiring stories of mid-lifers who have reinvented their careers and lived again More»
August 2009
The colour girl website is live! Check it out and take advantage of our end of winter special! More»
Colour Analysis and Personal Style coachingLooking drained? Feeling tired? Or would you just like a pre-summer make-over? Boost your confidence and success - book a personal style makeover with Cassandra now!There's no better time to put some "spring" back into your life!
June 2008
Cassandra wins the 2008 Wai Art Award More»
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