I’m Jacqui
I’m a Leadership Coach and Trainer, with a background in occupational and positive psychology, and I’m a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator, certified to bring Brené Brown’s research to individuals, groups and teams.
I’ve worked for 25 years in the UK, in the learning and organisational development field, across the public and private sectors, coaching senior leaders and helping the workforce build cohesive, brilliantly-performing teams.
This work is the most powerful personal and professional development programme I know, for building skills in courage, trust, empathy, developing self-compassion, being with uncertainty, and having hard conversations. It’s time for us to understand the conditioning that has us ‘armour up’, not feel our feelings, and try to control, predict and perfect whats coming next. We need leaders who can leap into the unknown and trust themselves to have the presence to respond from a truthful and wise place in the moment. Especially now - we are being called to greater courage and authenticity than ever before.
My mission is to support you to bring humanity back to your workplace or your life. Compassion, clarity and courage.
My superpower is in getting to the heart of the matter. I'm a natural detective right down to my bones (Scorpio Sun), and it's my job to root out with you, what's really going on. Our focus is on your wholeness, and I know what you’re really capable of, once you stop judging some of the parts of you as unworthy, and start showing up with your full life force and energy.
I know from experience the demands of leading a remote and dispersed team, and have a background in occupational psychology, training and facilitation, so I can also provide mentoring around specific workplace issues, managing people, developing teams, wellbeing, bouncing back from tough times, supporting teams through change, developing presentations, chairing meetings, planning for difficult conversations, changing cultures from ones of blame, to ones rooted in accountability and trust.
My coaching and facilitation work is about holding a guarded and cherished space for the metamorphosis happening - in you, in your team, in your workplace, with your leadership.
In those spaces, we make room for unearthing the truth about what's going on, we share the unsharable, we learn to work with our emotions as a creative force, we find what lights us up and then we follow that.
My work is grounded in co-active coaching, positive psychology, somatic coaching, neuroscience, and person-centred approaches to human development and change.
“Knowing that my life for the next year was going to involve major changes in my career and life environment including moving homes after nearly ten years, I chose coaching with Jacqui in order to have space for reflection and for my inner connection. I was feeling overwhelmed by the topics that were going on and by the day to day reactivity. Jacqui provided a sacred and safe place where all my feelings and thoughts were met with acceptance. Her way of coaching helped me to grow new perspectives and insights based on my values and my wisdom. She helped me put words and descriptions to experiences that seemed to be abstract to me initially. Our sessions helped me to connect to and live out of my inner guidance, depth and beauty. I learned to accept and embrace my shadows and see them as valuable messengers in order to lead my life in the most intuitive way. Jacqui is a treasure to work with. I can’t recommend her enough.”
“I just wanted to say thanks so much for a great workshop. Your passion about the subject was wonderful and really infectious. I love the way that you connected with all of us without a glimmer of condescension. Thanks so much for reinforcing my feelings of equality with the rest of the human race. ”
“I thought I’d let you know that I’m moving to the Shetlands tomorrow to take up an OT post in a hospital. This life coaching stuff has a lot to answer for!”
“I just wanted to say how much I appreciate being with you. You are an incredible leader, coach and facilitator. So, so glad that you are involved in this programme - the contribution and difference you make is outstanding. So glad we have agreed to 3 more days.”
