WE HAVE A TEAM OF CONSULTANTS, TRAINERS & COACHES IN THE UK, AS WELL AS TRUSTED PARTNERS ACROSS THE WORLD TO MEET SPECIFIC CLIENT NEEDS.
ELAINE CARNEGIE, FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR BSc (Hons)
Elaine is an experienced workplace health, mental health and wellbeing consultant who founded Beingworks with a vision to help create more human, compassionate and inclusive workplaces. She is dedicated to helping organisations look deeper into the root causes of employee challenges rather than just addressing surface symptoms. Elaine believes that workplace health, mental health and wellbeing requires an approach that offers initiatives at the level of individual behaviour change and individual inner change, as well as shared systemic and cultural practices.
Elaine is also a former Senior NHS Physiotherapist, Co-Active® Coach and Mental Health First Aid Instructor. Prior to launching Beingworks, she was a multi award-winning corporate professional working within a large multi-national organisation. Elaine spent several years working in the public and private healthcare sectors where she gained a broad range of clinical expertise treating patients with complex physical and mental health needs. Her clinical experience includes mental health, occupational health, intensive care (ICU), musculoskeletal (MSK), trauma orthopaedics and neurology. Elaine’s clinical background combined with her time spent working in a corporate environment has proved the perfect blend in shaping her expertise in the organisational wellbeing & mental health space. It not only brings together her clinical and business knowledge and skill, but also the empathy and insight she has for the complex challenges that employees face in the workplace today. Elaine has a particular interest and expertise in the topics of psychological safety, self-compassion and burnout. She has been featured in a number of high profile publications such as The Telegraph, Huffington Post, Marie Claire, Elle, Men’s Health and Vitality magazines.
CHARLOTTE SPEAK, COACHING DIRECTOR & PARENT SPECIALIST
For over 12 years Charlotte has worked in a variety of commercially driven HR roles largely in Talent Management and Learning and Development. Her drive for helping others be their best is grounded in a passion for strengths based coaching, which coupled with her creative approach helps her clients to unlock new ways of thinking. Charlotte’s coaching assignments have stretched right across the organisation – typically mid-level and senior leaders, but she has also supported front line staff through focussed programmes as well as designing and facilitating team development alongside Executives.
Charlotte’s mission is about equality and generating conversations about the power of the parent. They return to work with so many untapped skills and experiences, she is driven by tackling what is often seen as a deficit and instead showing all the amazing things that can happen for businesses when they have working parents on their side. She loves working with women to help them rock their return, often focusing on confidence (re)building, bringing practical tips on managing the juggle and helping them prepare for what might feel like challenging conversations. Some of Charlotte’s work is with businesses where she offers consulting on returning talent programmes, running workshops for line managers and establishing mentoring networks.
Charlotte loves learning, and any opportunities to bring greater depth to her knowledge are grabbed with both hands. She is a champion of asking powerful questions and always operates with the belief that clients have the answers, they just need support in finding them. Charlotte values reflection and planning time – she is a firm believer that having quality thinking prioritised and will get you where you need to be.
JANINE ESBRAND, SPECIALIST CAREER COACH
Janine is a specialist career and executive coach who is committed to helping professionals build their careers.
Janine is also a qualified corporate /commercial lawyer with over 12 years' legal experience.
JONNY SAY, MINDFULNESS COACH, THERAPIST & CONSULTANT
Jonny has been practicing mindfulness and meditation for over 20 years and teaching for more than 10 years. He has attended teacher training with the Bangor Centre for Mindfulness and has participated in many courses and retreats with world class teachers. He is recognised on the UK Network for Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training Organisations UK listing.
Jonny has taught hundreds of people the skills of mindfulness in public, corporate and 1-2-1 teaching contexts. He has taught a wide range of organisations from top fashion brands, tech companies and finance firms to charities and the NHS. He is pragmatic and practical in his approach, adapting mindfulness to fit into busy and stressful lives. He teaches weekly Mindfulness and Compassion groups to Mind and NHS IAPT services in London.
He is a therapist working in the NHS and private practice. His two main models of therapy are mindfulness and compassion based approaches; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy. Jonny has attended training with many of the top Acceptance and Commitment Therapy trainers (Prof Steve Hayes, Dr Kelly Wilson, Dr Kirk Strohsal and Dr Russ Harris). He has also participated in Compassion Focused Therapy training with Prof Paul Gilbert and Dr Chris Irons and Mindful Self-Compassion training with Dr Kristin Neff. He is an associate therapist for the leading Compassion Focused Therapy Organisation, Balanced Minds.
Additionally, Jonny has his own history with mental health challenges and so he deeply understands the pain and suffering of stress, anxiety and mood disorders. This strengthens both his empathy and skills in helping clients to recover from mental health difficulties and manage ongoing stressful lives in adaptive ways.
KATE HUNTER, EXECUTIVE COACH
Kate is an experienced Business Professional, Learning and Development Expert, Executive Coach and Sales Acceleration Trainer with a demonstrated history of working within a blue-chip company. Kate is skilled in coaching at all levels including career development, return to work, sales and marketing, needs analysis and all aspects of training cycle – including design and delivery of development programmes.
Kate is a passionate and highly qualified L&D expert and coach and believes that organisations who place their people at the forefront of their cultures are the ones winning. If you invest and grow in your people, you will grow and succeed in your business.
CHARLENE BROWN, STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Charlene Brown has over a decade of legal, culture, inclusion and financial services experience, providing strategic employment law advice on a range of contentious and noncontentious employment matters including investigations, bullying, harassment and discrimination, whistleblowing, microaggressions, culture, diversity and inclusion, data breaches, breach of confidentiality, pay reporting and training.
Charlene’s experience includes privacy law, cybersecurity law, and corporate governance. Charlene also counsels on best practice for corporate diversity initiatives, diversity networks, and start-ups.
Charlene’s experience helping clients improve their workplace culture is a significant part of her work. Charlene delivers training to people of all levels across organisations on matters pertaining to D&I, race and ethnicity, intersectionality, and other protected characteristics in the workplace.
Through advising and supporting clients Charlene helps organisations to understand the root cause of people related issues and, using her expertise and experience, helps organisations make changes and improvements where it really matters.
Charlene is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and contributed to the McGregor-Smith Review and the Ethnicity Pay Gap consultation.
Charlene was appointed Chair of the Ivors Academy Ethics Committee in 2020. The Committee advises the Academy on ethics related issues and has set up and retains oversight of the ethical framework for the Academy’s activities, including their awards and membership.
CLARE HENSON-BOWEN, PHYSIOTHERAPIST - BSc PGDip HCPC MCSP
Clare qualified as a physiotherapist over 15 years ago and has worked in a variety of NHS, private, competitive sporting, and occupational health settings. This wide range of areas has enabled Clare to work and build specialist skills to treat both simple and very complex chronic conditions, musculoskeletal, and occupational injuries.
Clare has a particular interest in spinal pain, functional restoration, and supporting patients to return to their work and hobbies after injury or illness.
Clinical specialties: Musculoskeletal - Sports Injuries - Ergonomics - Rehabilitation - Pain Management - Occupational Health Physiotherapy.
ROO DAVIES, MINDSET EXPERT, COACH & SPEAKER
Roo is a multi-award-winning coach and is accredited with Institute of Leadership & Management and the Association for Coaching. She is the go-to coach for supporting the wellbeing of leaders and helping them find passion, positivity, and purpose. As a qualified mindset expert, she’s a unique coach who wears many different hats. She is a Life Coach, Business Coach, Leadership Coach, Strengths Coach and Speaker. Whatever speciality she finds herself in, Roo helps leaders in organisations thrive in their personal, professional, and business life.
After training at Oxford University Roo completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Coaching at Goldsmiths, London.
Roo has also been featured in a number of high-profile publications such as Forbes Magazine, Metro, Stylist Magazine and Health & Wellbeing.
DR SARAH TAYLOR (PhD), ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Sarah is on a mission to help people thrive, rather than just survive, amidst the demands and pace of 21st century life and work. As an experienced Organisational Development professional, Sarah has a deep understanding of the challenges and complexities faced by leaders today. Her PhD research found that being well is essential for leading well and that we need to address the systemic root causes of stress, overwhelm and burnout to create a genuine culture of wellbeing at work. She has put her findings into practice through the design and delivery of outstanding leadership development programmes and workshops.
Sarah is an accredited Executive Coach with additional certifications in Positive Intelligence and HeartMath coaching. This powerful blend enables her to take a holistic approach that helps leaders develop powerful new mindsets and habits, overcome self-sabotage, build personal resilience and learn practical ways to recharge their energy levels and reduce fatigue to be at their best more of the time. She has coached leaders and executives in a range of sectors including the NHS, colleges and universities, local government, private healthcare and tech.
Another core area of expertise Sarah brings is in creating thriving, collaborative and energised teams. She is a certified 6 Teams Conditions practitioner which she uses to help teams diagnose where teams are stuck and create root level processes and ways of working that lead to team effectiveness, high performance and wellbeing. She is trained in participative methodologies such as Open Space, World Café and Design for Wiser Action and has a wealth of experience using these approaches to engage all stakeholders in transformational change.
On a personal level, Sarah believes that challenging life events can be catalysts for profound growth and positive change. Her own experiences have led to a lifelong quest to learn about human flourishing, enabling her to draw from a diverse source of inspiration to share with clients.
We also draw on the strength and knowledge of our partner experts around the globe to deliver the best solution for each organisation we work with.