About
Natasha…

About me

As a former People and Development Director with 20 years of experience in organisational and leadership development, I have spent my career helping individuals to perform at their best. My fascination with human potential has given me insight into how everyone in an organisation can operate at their peak.

I specialise in helping leaders overcome the blocks and beliefs that hinder performance. Through my own journey, I’ve learned that deep self-awareness is key to fulfilling our potential.

My passion has always been in people and how to help them to be at their best. From an early age, I was fascinated by human behaviour, studying psychology at A level and then going to work as a recruitment consultant where I loved getting to know people so that I could find them jobs that matched their skills and personality.

In my early HR career, I designed talent programmes and travelled the world finding amazing talent to work in amazing teams. It was a great starting point to my career and ever since then, I’ve continued to follow my passion of creating amazing places to work where people could thrive. I have developed award-winning leadership development programmes, built careers and talent management frameworks, developed value propositions and implemented software to professionalise and build efficient systems. I have been on Boards, have advised Boards and I have worked with hundreds of leaders and leadership teams to help them to succeed.

I have also been part of dysfunctional teams, I have worked in ways that didn’t support me or my teams, and I have reached points in my career where I have felt lost or like an imposter.

My story

Having led several transformational change programmes and developed industry-leading leadership programmes, two questions always lingered: Why do people find it so hard to change and why are so many people unhappy and not changing?

I realised that true change requires deep self-awareness. While changing processes and frameworks is straightforward, becoming an excellent leader demands introspection and an understanding of others. This doesn’t happen overnight. It requires leaders to feel safe to open up, be themselves, and identify the parts that are holding them back.

After experiencing burnout first-hand, I realised that I had not been at my best without knowing for a long time. I could also see that many leaders were exhausted, fatigued by the daily grind (and the problems they faced both inside and outside of work). These leaders were also not taking the time to invest in themselves and their own development. It’s clear now that they needed to ‘put on their own oxygen masks’, but rarely had the time or awareness of how to do that, which impacted their performance and energy levels and led them closer to burnout.

They also rarely felt like they could tell the truth about how they were feeling or the challenges they were facing, and they had very little support to help them to stay at their best.

New book coming soon

What my clients are saying

  • “Natasha has been instrumental in my transition to my new role in A&M. Her guidance has been key in understanding how to apply my personal abilities in my professional behaviour. As a result of the work, I have come to understand that the growth of my leadership style is based on the development of my personal skills. Natasha has emphasised the importance of consciousness in effective planning, decision making, leadership, etc. She is passionate about what she does which makes a positive difference.”

    Managing Director, Alvarez and Marsal

  • “Working with Natasha was amazing. I had no experience in exploring consciousness and how coaching could benefit me or my team. Through her excellent communication and caring approach we quickly built rapport and trust. Natasha's natural growth mindset was inspiring and I learned a lot about how previous trauma and negative experience can cloud judgement. Natasha makes it safe to explore topics that you would normally avoid and because of that I now feel equipped to continue my path to improvement.”

    Ministry of Defence, A Block (MAB)

My key learnings

What I have learned from all of this is that creating thriving teams is hard. It’s complex, and it’s ever-changing. Staying well, focused, happy and content is equally elusive. Yet, there is one thing that I have discovered that makes both of those things ten times easier – and it’s getting to know yourself. This is as important for individual leaders as it is for leadership teams – both need to be conscious to thrive.

Through getting to know myself better and taking the time to understand who I really am, I have found greater levels of peace and unlocked potential that I didn’t even realise was there. I now have the privilege to help others to do the same every day. It’s not always easy but it is worth it if you are willing to go on the journey and embrace who you are and why you are here.

Leadership is tough

Sometimes life is tough too. Then throw in the odd existential crisis or a bit of burnout and we can quickly end up stuck.

Even when we’re feeling at our best, we often don’t take the time and space to consider what would enable us to feel even better. We all have aspects of us that limit us or that cause us discomfort – that can sometimes be left unresolved for years.

Many of us rarely experience those wonderful feelings of peace, contentment, satisfaction and joy, and even when we do, they can be fleeting. We may be very successful in certain aspects of our lives but there’s still something – things that aren’t working. We often think these things are outside of our control but often they’re not. Often we have far more control over the way that we are feeling than we realise.

After experiencing a severe period of burnout and having gone on a deep and life changing journey of self discovery, I realised that the battle is often an internal one. We carry so much from our past that dictates the way we feel and behave in our adult lives. Only by understanding that can we find the key to happiness…and a bit more peace.

For leadership teams and organisations, they often can’t ‘see’ themselves. They don’t know themselves well enough to be able to decide how they can thrive. They are not conscious. Not because they are bad or dysfunctional, but because it’s hard to see ourselves – both as individuals and as teams or groups of people. We also often convince ourselves that everything is OK or too hard to fix when what we really need is to let someone objective come in and take a look at things – with compassion and consideration – to help us to figure out how to make things better.

It all comes down to knowledge of self. Whether that self is you or the team or organisation you work in. It’s the key to unlocking the true magic in us as humans. And it’s what I have devoted my life to – helping others to see themselves – the good and the wonderful world of possibilities. 

It requires a supportive and compassionate approach. It requires a journey guide who will go with you and who will partner with you without judgement, to help you to get to a place where you have the insight and deep understanding you need to thrive.

This work benefits both the leader and the team, fostering satisfaction and engagement, which in turn allows both to thrive. Thriving teams positively influence their organisations and society and it is this wider impact that gets me out of bed every day.

It means having a journey guide who is there to support you, without judgement, and to help you to see the parts of yourself that you can’t see yourself. The good parts and the parts that are holding you back.

In teams, the leaders weren’t having the conversations needed to unlock the team’s potential.

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