Meet the team

Shefali Sharma

  • Passionate
  • Warm
  • Supportive

Shefali is highly knowledgeable in psychology and emotional intelligence, and is able to see right to the core of issues. She is a Chartered Psychologist with a special interest in neuroscience and an insatiable appetite for learning. A warm, giving person, she’s also helped to rear lions and tigers – and has the scars to prove it.

Shefali Sharma

Shefali has been developing people and organisations since 1996. She has a passion for enabling people to realise their potential and make the most of their talents. In doing so, she’s found they become better at leading and motivating others to achieve sustained excellence in the workplace.

Her style is supportive, she builds rapport easily and achieves results quickly. Having led people, initiatives and projects within organisations herself, she has a deep understanding of the challenges business leaders face.

Shefali’s UK clients have included Centrica, Channel 4, Deloitte, Environment Agency, Mars, the Ministry of Defence, Royal Air Force, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sainsbury’s, Siemens and Tesco. Since 2002, she has also been working as a consultant in Europe, Africa and Asia for Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Proctor & Gamble and The Singapore Council.

Focus

Qualifications

  • Developing teams at board level
  • Designing and delivering training in coaching skills and the use of psychometrics
  • Designing and facilitating leadership development workshops
  • Providing one-to-one coaching for executives and senior and middle managers
  • Using the latest neuroscience research to design effective leadership development programmes that, through a mix of experiential and practical exercises, also promote physical and emotional wellbeing
  • Chartered Occupational Psychologist (British Psychological Society)
  • MSc in Occupational Psychology
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Executive Coaching
  • Certificate in Advanced Facilitation Skills
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Business and Change Management
  • Trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Transactional Analysis techniques
  • Diploma in Body Psychotherapy
  • Registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Career Highlights

Designing leadership programmes for the top 100 executives and senior staff of organisations such as Ernst & Young, Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), NHS Trusts, and Smiths News

Leading a major cultural change initiative for the Royal Air Force

Facilitating action learning sets for NHS clinical staff, focused on how they lead in their part of the health service

Using action learning to build coaching capability on programmes attended by leaders from a wide range of organisations

Speaking at a business psychology conference on the use of personality questionnaires in people development

Training to become a fully-qualified therapist

Spending six years working for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), helping team leaders and clinical heads lead significant change initiatives

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Shefali was very warm and caring. She took a real interest in all delegates.
Senior Managers, professional services firm
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She was very observant and was really engaged in providing us feedback.
Senior Managers, professional services firm

Other team members

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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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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