I have worked with Rachel for over 4 years and have always been impressed by her holistic approach to leadership and it came as no surprise that she created The Natural Leader Programme. Her approach to caring for wider humanity and the environment is a common thread of her authentic leadership style and is a refreshing change from the manufactured leaders that are more about style than substance and who care more about words than action. Rachel Is a "natural leader' and is great at asking questions that require reflection, which often results in subtle but powerful changes in leadership styles. The world, going forward, needs more leaders like Rachel and the programme is the start of a movement which sees the world lead in a better, more effective and empathetic way.
Benefit from our experience
We draw from our past and current experience of working at senior levels and in consultancy roles with some of the leading national and international organisations.
From designing bespoke programmes, training emerging or senior leaders, coaching at C-suite and executive level or providing leadership programmes across the leadership populations. Those we have worked with or currently work with include:
Case studies
Unilever
Optimise our team's performance through transition in a changing business.
Our Natural Response:
Bespoke in design, this two year partnership focused on personal and collective strength, resilience, vision, internal reputation and influence.
"An invaluable journey, we are seeing people's careers accelerate because they know what they want and how to get there. We understand ourselves and each other and the impact we have. These subtitles of interaction is where the magic happens. An informed, relax delivery style that has taken our strategy to the next level."
Royal Yachting Association
Disrupt the thinking of our leaders.
Our Natural Response:
A series of interactive, straight-talking workshops for leaders at the 2024 RYA Conference.
"Empowering. enlightening and thought provoking. It was dynamic, engaging and fun - the kind of way I would like to teach more often!"
Oxfam
Strategic Communications Consultancy
Our Natural Response:
A six month programme to raise visibility and awareness around one area of Oxfam's vital work.
"You were recommended to Oxfam and you were a pleasure to work with. I really appreciate that there was no over-promising and worked really well across several internal stakeholders. I love that you were full of ideas, generally lovely to work with"
Co-operative Group
Equip and Enable Our Leaders To Build Reputation
Our Natural Response:
Leadership Team Day
"Very experienced practitioners who have a genuine appreciation of this work. Your methods are centred around solid strategic thinking, your approach and delivery is very customer-centric and meaningful."
Nationwide
Team Development
Our Natural Response:
A three month, team development programme.
"A unique and powerful approach to helping organisations such as outs better understand and build reputation."
Guardian
We want to demonstrate our value and our impact on others and the difference that we make in corporate sustainability partnerships.
Our Natural Response:
Strategic consultancy to evidence impact
"Your insight and guidance is invaluable for those organisations that are serious abuot sustainability and better business"
Executive coaching - what our clients say
This programme has given me a new level of confidence that has been noticed by my line manager. I now speak first, not last. This programme has resulted in my now considering myself as equal.
It's helped enormously in having courageous conversations and feeling comfortable to host them.
I've learned how to be a leader, rather than what a leader does. It's been brilliant
I've learned the impact of simply changing my tone or dropping my smile
Experiencing how to adapt my leadership to match my intention has been really powerful/
What has been brilliant is your consistency of approach, asking what may be possible, asking 'so what', and 'what now' and 'what if,' has led us to learning some core team truths and being able to see what is possible
What was brilliant was getting physically involved in the models and theories. The experiential delivery helped to bring the leadership point to life and has made the learning stick!
The fact that the programme was made so relevant to the typical things we do in the workplace made it very different to any other programmes that I have been on.
Thank you so much. We have noticed a real difference in the leadership across the team both individually and collectively – in terms of approach, attitude and outlook. The team has really demonstrated how they are putting the leadership coaching into practice, stepping up in their roles, being proactive with suggestions, believing that they can themselves drive change and are taking ownership of the business. We needed them to come together as a leadership group and your work made a real impact!
You've really helped out team connect and grow and a group and have completely changed my mindset from leading from what I feel I 'should' do, to leading from what I 'want' to do.
Your immersive, honest approach with practical, hands on delivery really helped me to bring leadership to life and bring it right back to my day to day work
The best training I have ever been on.
I don't feel I can articulate well enough how this work has allowed me to see where I am, what I can be and how easy it is to get to this that point. A reminder that it's OK to be yourself and to succeed. I had forgotten who I can be and what I can bring. What you have achieved with me in this work is outstanding
“A very relaxed environment is created to understand what drives and limits you personal effectiveness. I feel very privileged to have had this experience.”
“You had empathy in abundance, are progress oriented and naturally extremely personable. The techniques you used are innovative and practical. What I appreciate most if your capacity to connect deeply and with lightness and I thoroughly recommend working with you”
“My coach and I worked together for over a year and I found the overall experience incredibly rewarding. From the offset, she was interested and engaging and this helped set our relationship off on the right foot; as someone who’s not naturally used to talking about myself, she created a safe and constructive environment which allowed me to reflect and challenge myself knowing there was always support there.
At the end of our work together I was able to recognise myself more clearly & objectively, understand my ways of working and even tangibly define by belief system (most of these I wasn’t cognisant of previously). I would have no hesitation in recommending a coaching programme to anyone else looking to develop themselves either personally or professionally.”
“Sessions are thought provoking, challenging and enjoyable. Each session is 100% focused on your needs, and enables you to concentrate your energies on what really matters – YOU!
I have learned so much more about myself, I understand the rationale behind my motivations and also my weaknesses. These sessions and their insights and guidance have allowed me to develop strategies that will enable me to achieve my objectives over the coming months.”
“Expertise, professionalism, positivity and a huge desire to move you forward, I’d thoroughly recommend my coach.”