About
Everything starts with you
Every leader, team and organisation is different. We listen first, then co-create the best solutions for you.
Working with LeaderSpace
Our clients tend to work with us again and again, taking us with them into new organisations and recommending us to others. They tell us that when working with LeaderSpace:
- You’ll quickly find you’re in a genuine creative partnership, combining your understanding of your organisation with our experience and expertise in the world of leadership and team development
- Your people and ours feel like you’re one single team
- They feel truly heard and they trust us to support them way beyond the brief
- They love the way we challenge prevailing assumptions, bring insight and offer diverse perspectives
- They value our creative, strategic approach to development
- Your people will appreciate our combination of rigour with pragmatism, challenge with respect and relentless compassion
Taking a strategic, systemic approach for significant, sustained development
None of us works or leads in a vacuum. Every leader and team operates as part of a complex system, which is why it is sometimes so hard for people to change, even when they know they need to do so.
That’s why, LeaderSpace, we help you and your people understand what’s really inhibiting and enabling their development. As psychologists, we know what it really takes to take leaders and teams to the next level. And we know, like you do, that sometimes that means working one-on-one with people; sometimes it’s best done in teams; sometimes it’s best done with groups of leaders from across the organisation. Sometimes, it’s a combination of one or more those; sometimes it’s something completely different.
Meet the team
Richard Boston
- Strategic
- Inventive
- Ally
Richard, LeaderSpace’s Managing Director, has a special interest in the systemic issues facing teams and organisations, and is passionate about helping leaders, their teams and their organisations fulfil their potential. His love of learning and wide experience ensures he always brings fresh insight to every project. To relax he runs up and down muddy hills.
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Bernard Cooke
- Insightful
- Provocative
- Humour
Bernard is a Chartered Business Psychologist and accredited executive coach – and often works as a supervisor to other coaches. He has a dry, self-deprecating sense of humour and a unique way of challenging that provokes insight rather than defensiveness. His special interests include resilience and red wine.
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Sarah Mast
- Generative
- Wise
- Energised
Sarah is an experienced organisational development consultant. She is famed for being quick to grasp exactly what clients need, is bags of fun and has boundless enthusiasm. She thrives in any lively or challenging environment.
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Shefali Sharma
- Passionate
- Warm
- Supportive
Shefali is highly knowledgeable in psychology and emotional intelligence, and sees right to the core of issues. She is a Chartered Psychologist with a special interest in neuroscience. Shefali has an insatiable appetite for learning and is a warm, giving person. She has helped rear lions and tigers – and has the scars to prove it.
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Natasha Graham
- Perceptive
- Attentive
- Organised
Natasha combines rigorous ethical standards with a highly perceptive interpersonal style. Her passion lies in uncovering authenticity in individuals, teams and organisations to enable true change and continuous growth. Her love of the countryside and her personal discipline in practicing ballet keeps her on her toes outside of work.
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Hanane Gamhiouen
- Creative
- Immersive
- Fun
Hanane helps people and organisations to be their best selves in times of uncertainty and change. When she’s not working with clients she’s travelling the world immersing herself in indigenous cultures, experimenting with non-ordinary states of consciousness or in warm waters scuba diving.
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Anna Heywood
- Incisive
- Understanding
- Relaxed
Anna blends a relaxed, approachable style with perceptive, incisive questioning rooted in a deep understanding of human nature. She finds her passion for life-long learning is met in equal measures by her work and her role as a parent.
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Claire Davey
- Centred
- Holistic
- Enabling
Claire brings diversity of thought and experience, wonderful vitality and a great sense of humour. Her warmth and compassion help her clients quickly feel safe, enabling them to bring their whole selves to the work they’re doing together.
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Anna Crollick
- Kind
- Supportive
- Astute
Anna is passionate about enabling people to find greater clarity of purpose, meaning and happiness at work. Her approach is rooted in psychological rigour and insight. She’s also fascinated by the impact visual images can have on coaching and often draws on art-based approaches to enable more profound awareness and impact.
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Sarah Perrott
- Pragmatic
- Energetic
- Commercial
Sarah is energetic and positive, with a warm, engaging style and a focus on values. She helps create the energy and self-belief that enables senior leaders to grow and succeed. She loves walking along the River Thames and is passionate about yoga, aiming to maintain flexibility in body, mind and spirit!
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Ken Rowley
- Friendly
- Thoughtful
- Questioning
Ken is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, who loves helping people gain greater meaning and happiness from their work. He has a passion for life-long learning and a drive to support others in their developmental journeys. He loves to use stories to bring concepts to life and to engage his audience.
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Angelina Bennet
- Rigorous
- Warm
- Curious
Angelina is known for her innovative approach to developing effective, productive leaders and her award-winning change leadership. While her work is rigorously backed by research, she engages with a combination of perceptive questioning and a warm, personable, non-judgemental style. As a music obsessive, when not at a gig, Angelina can be found playing guitar, practising yoga or tap dancing.
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Jabiz Parvardin
- Energising
- Inclusive
- Soul
Jab has a huge passion for helping people become the best they can be. He is an engaging natural communicator, skilled in getting teams excited about positive change. He’s a keen golfer and lover of sport. He also loves exploring different cultures and creative arts.
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