Meet the Team
Our team of hugely experienced trainers focus on helping you make work a good place to be, as well helping you to live well and respond to day to day challenges in a more resilient manner. The teaching is grounded in real life experiences, providing practical, easy to understand and apply coaching techiniques. Every element of our programme is based on on the most reliable and complete academic evidence about what creates resilience in today’s workplaces.
INTRODUCING YOU TO
Dr. Rachel Morris
The Shapes Toolkit was created by Dr Rachel Morris, a GP who grew so tired, after 15 years of seeing patients who were ill because of workplace stress, that she decided to do something about it.
Rachel taught General Practice at the University of Cambridge for several years before setting up and leading the ‘Doctor as Professional’ course. This got her interested in the leadership behaviour of professionals in high stress jobs and so she trained as an Executive and Team coach.
Rachel founded Wild Monday and developed the Shapes Toolkit. She regularly lectures and delivers training around the country on wellbeing at work, resilience and productivity
Rachel and Annie work with a team of experienced associates to deliver authentic and relevant coaching and training focussing on changing behaviour.
Unlike other companies who overwhelm with theory and concentrate on just one aspect of resilience alone, you will find this training focuses on helping you to make work a good place to be, as well as helping you to live well and respond to things in a resilient manner.
Annie Hanekom
Annie is an executive coach, facilitator, and leadership practitioner and Director of Leadership at Wild Monday. She has spent more than 19 years in the consulting and leadership development arena, based both in the UK and in South Africa.
Annie is currently living in Cambridge in the UK, serving clients across the globe. She has coached and advised on leadership, team, and personal effectiveness and focuses on building deep self-awareness in individuals.
Annie combines experience in consulting with her strong interpersonal skills and draws on her endurance athletics passion and experience to focus on building leaders' potential, providing thinking partnership, and working with individuals and teams to evolve their awareness of themselves. She does this through advising on people strategy, leadership programme development, facilitation, and executive and team coaching.
Corrina Gordon-Barnes
Corrina is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), trained with The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and accredited through the International Coach Federation (ICF).
With 15 years of experience as a coach, she has high impact both one-to-one and with groups and has served individual clients, corporations, schools and charities both in the UK and internationally. Her specialism is friction-free relationships – enabling people to get on better and function most effectively with those they live and work with. She is an experienced facilitator of The Work – a powerful method of inquiry-based stress reduction.
Corrina is also a qualified teacher and trained at Cambridge University.
Dr Katya Miles
Katya is a former GP and Occupational Health Doctor turned Wellbeing Trainer, Careers Coach & Specialist in Workplace Wellbeing.
Having journeyed through Burnout, she resolved to empower caring professionals to avoid the mistakes she made and thrive in work.
This passion drove her to set up her clinical and academic expertise, along with her personal experience, to deliver inspiring coaching and training programmes for overstretched professionals.
She has worked at the Mayo Clinic, USA & in the UK as a GP for both civilians & the Armed Forces; as well as in Occupational Health.
Area of expertise:
- Careers Coach
- Wellbeing Trainer
- Specialist in Workplace Wellbeing
Henri Stevenson
Henri is an Executive Coach and Leadership Development trainer and consultant with over 20 years of experience. She works with individuals and organisations to develop leadership capability, personal impact, resilience, and well-being.
Henri started her career in PR and internal communication working closely with Senior Leadership teams to increase employee engagement and support organisations through change. Specifically, she set up and led the Internal Communications function at the City & Guilds Group, driving employee engagement during a period of significant change including a series of acquisitions and organisational change.
She moved into Learning and Development over 10 years ago to focus on what she loves most. She has significant leadership and management experience, her last corporate role being Group Head of Learning and Development for the City & Guilds Group. She has designed and delivered numerous management and leadership development programmes that support organisational and individual performance. She is noted for her warm and authentic style as well as her ability to constructively challenge and encourage new ways of thinking and operating. She is passionate about people building on their strengths to be the best they can be.
Areas of expertise
Leadership and management development, resilience and well-being, authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, change management, confidence and presence, coaching skills, peer and group coaching, executive coaching, outdoor coaching, communications and employee engagement.
Client successes
Heathrow Airport – Leadership development residential for Senior Leaders
NHS – Resilience & wellbeing – Shapes Toolkit
Cambridge University Press – Executive Coaching, Resilience & Well-being
Ocado – Executive Coaching
South Eastern Railways- Management Development for frontline managers.
Worldpay – Resilience programme for all managers delivered virtually.
Oxfam – Coaching for FutureSkills
Sky- Growth Mindset workshops
City & Guilds Group – peer coaching programme, leadership and management development programme, resilience and well-being interventions, coaching skills, change management workshops and Executive coaching.
Sheela Hobden
After nearly 10 years of asking “is this it?” about her life, she experienced burn-out quickly followed by a bout of depression. Once on the mend, she had career coaching which sparked her passion for coaching. She studied with Barefoot Coaching, additionally achieving a PGCERT in Business and Personal Coaching from the University of Chester. Next she gained Professional Certified Coach status with the International Coach Federation. She also holds Associate membership with the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel Development).
She has passion and experience in health and wellness, particularly in the medical field. She works with organisations and individuals, focussing on doctors and healthcare professionals. The coaching programmes help clients learn to care for themselves as much as for their patients so they can enjoy the fun stuff in life!
Sheela has completed ultra-distance running events, a full ironman and is a keen year round sea swimmer, so you could say she likes a challenge!
Rebecca Balzano
Rebecca’s practice is underpinned by years of experience in People Development roles, from the University of Cambridge to biotech startups and running her own business and team of 15. This background in leaderships people management is bolstered by extensive CPD and self study of emotional intelligence, behaviour addiction recovery, NLP, relationships (both work and personal relationships) and Neuroscience. With an ICF regulated qualification in Personal Performance Development, Level 5 Leadership and Management, Level 3 Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, Masters NLP, and forthcoming Level 5 SFEDI Diploma and many hours CPD in coaching she has the qualifications to support the practical experience in Coaching and People Development.
Last year Rebecca summited mount Kilimanjaro, this year she too part in a 15km open water swim in Scilly to raise over £2000 for Bowel Cancer UK and next year she has set the bar even higher with Everest Base Camp aspirations. Raising a family and her love of travel and adventure have been key to growing awareness and interest in health, sustainability, corporate social responsibility and contribution practices.
Sarah Coope
Sarah qualified as a doctor in 1998 and has experience in clinical, facilitation, mediation, coaching and leadership roles in healthcare.
She worked as a GP for 20yrs and, during the last 15yrs, gained a wide range of skills and competencies through developing and delivering communication and professional skills training for doctors.
Sarah has worked with several organisations, including HEE and a medical indemnity organisation, to provide learning activities with the aim of reducing medico-legal risk and improving clinician communication and patient satisfaction.
Sarah is also an experienced appraiser, coach, mentor and accredited mediator, working with clinicians and managers in a variety of healthcare settings, in order to identify the root cause of issues & challenges faced.
She has held leadership roles as Named GP Safeguarding Children for Hull CCG, Clinical Director PCN and at RCOG as Director of Education, and now works as a freelance facilitator and coach for health professionals
Pippa Woolner
Pippa is a Practicing GP, Trainer, Executive Coach and Associate Member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council UK.
She has worked in Medical Education in Primary Care for many years and her roles have included working both as a Trainer and Training Programme Director for GP Trainees.
She is familiar with the challenges of juggling the different responsibilities of working in a busy job in primary care and family life and appreciates the challenges of working in healthcare.
She is passionate about improving wellbeing for healthcare professionals at work.
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