Empathy-Powered Leadership Journey
TRANSFORMING EMPATHIC INDIVIDUALS INTO IMPACTFUL LEADERS WITH RAPID, LASTING RESULTS
The Empathy-Powered Leader
…is self-aware, courageous and compassionate. They balance strategic influence with a deep understanding of others to drive performance.
When you have empathy-powered leaders, your teams, your productivity and your customers benefit:
Reduce stress & absenteeism
Empathic leaders authentically connect with, and support, their people. This reduces stress and fortifies wellbeing.
Caring & inclusive
They make other people feel heard and included: they enhance the success of your DIEB and wellbeing initiatives, and they strengthen a customer ethos.
Engaged & motivated
By tuning into and valuing others, they build teams that feel 25% more engaged and 20% more committed to the organisation*.
Boost emotional resilience
Empathy-powered leaders have 11% lower risk of burnout themselves*. They are emotionally resilient role-models for other leaders.
Meeting workforce demands
Empathy powered leaders can help you meet the variety of workforce needs (from Boomer II to Gen Z) without leaning on HR for support.
Future-proof your business
When you develop a reputation for being caring towards employees, the best people will want to work there. And they won’t want to leave.
It’s innovative yet simple.
Find your empathic people and help them to take the lead.
Coaching for individuals
Increasing positive impact by harnessing empathy. Building confidence and self-belief, so people finally feel ready to move into senior roles.
Coaching for groups
Guiding a cohort of empathic people into impactful leadership roles. Sharing common experiences, learning from each other, supporting each other’s growth.
Organisational development
End-to-end initiatives that embed empathy as a value. My associates and I can help you identify, support and develop the hidden empathic talent in your organisation.
If you’d like to find out more, let’s talk.
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It’s bolder than your other programmes.
Content & Outcomes
Those with the potential to become Empathy-Powered Leaders do need development – just not in the skills covered by conventional leadership programmes. The programme content has been specifically tailored to enable empathic people to break through their personal barriers and take their next promotion or leadership role.
Ditching people-pleasing. Building authority and gravitas without changing your personality.
Discovering the 3As of Assertiveness. Using your voice, and having the courage to advocate for yourself and for others.
Establishing, communicating and protecting your boundaries. Consciously managing the spread of your responsibility net.
Dialling Up and Dialling Down your personal qualities to maximise your impact across different settings and relationships.
Noticing and taming your inner critic. Understanding how it is holding you back. Befriending this part of you to empower yourself.
Cultivating mindful self-compassion, instead of just expressing compassion for others.
Understanding the 7 Principles of Self-Promotion. Learning how to put yourself forward in your own way, with authenticity.
Overcoming imposter syndrome. Developing your core belief in yourself. Owning your strengths and accomplishments.
Receiving feedback. Accepting praise without discounting it. Hearing critical feedback without over-sensitivity or rumination.
It’s intuitive yet evidence-based.
Content Delivery
On this transformative leadership journey, you’ll have access to …
Bite-sized training videos to bring each topic to life so you can connect more deeply with the content.
Online worksheets and reflection questions on each topic, ready for you to download and save.
Guided meditations and activations to calm, reset and enhance emotional resilience.
Audio files to listen to whenever it’s convenient to you, and as often as you wish.
Live group calls to ask questions, share experiences, and to give and receive support.
An online portal that houses all of the content, accessible any time from anywhere in the world.
Empathy-Powered Leadership:
My Approach
I’ve worked with hundreds of empathic people since opening my coaching practice. We seem to have a natural connection, which allows me to transform them into strong, courageous leaders, often with rapid results.
Perhaps this is because I am empathic and compassionate myself. I have spent my whole life tuning into others. My coaching clients say I get inside their headspace. They say they feel safe and seen. I pour my energy into this. I also draw on what I call secondary empathy to offer insights into people they are struggling with, such as domineering managers.
Empathic people can make great leaders. They are typically conscientious and results-oriented, as well as having the skills for getting the best out of others. But often they hold themselves back. Their strong focus on other people can easily become distorted into under-valuing themselves. They often downplay their own accomplishments and experience self-doubt. Their niceness and compassion gets mistaken for weakness.
I have worked hard throughout my own life to overcome those same self-limiting behaviours that used to hold me back. This is why I became an expert on the psychology of helping.
And it works.
For more testimonials from clients, please click here: WHAT THEY SAY
If you’d like to find out more, let’s talk.
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Why work with me …
I am a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (CPsychol AFBSsS). While I began my career in public healthcare, I’ve been practising as a Business Psychologist and leadership coach for twenty years.
My award-winning book, The Super-Helper Syndrome, has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Turkish and will shortly come out in Polish.
You can find me on stage at business conferences and wellbeing festivals, speaking on imposter syndrome, emotional resilience and assertiveness. As a guest lecturer at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, I teach impactful and empathic leadership to MBA students.
I’ve addressed online audiences of 15,000 people at a time. Over a thousand people have been through my programme, Tame Your Inner Critic.
I am a regular commissioned writer for ACCA on the subject of wellbeing and leadership. I’m invited to comment on psychology at work and mental health themes, for magazines, newspapers, podcasts, radio, and television.
As an expert on the psychology of compassion, I offer my services on a voluntary basis to charities including NSPCC, CarersUK, Zero Suicide Alliance.
*Sources
Hourgaard & Carter, 2022, Compassionate Leadership, Harvard Business Press
Trzecik & Mazzarelli, 2019, Compassionomics, Studer Group
Accidental Managers, 2023, Chartered Management Institute
My commissioned articles on empathy powered leadership:
The Power of Empathy, European Spa magazine, Spring Issue 2025, pp38-40
Values to Win Workforce Buy-in, ACCA, Future of Work Issue 2025 (tbp).
Leading with Empathy, ACCA, Accounting & Business Magazine, March 2021.
My other related articles
And I’ve written extensively and given lectures (Cambs Judge Business School for example) on Compassionate Leadership. Despite it’s good intention, it attempts, and often fails, to train every leader to be empathic. It is a very different approach to what I’m presenting on this page, which is simply finding your empathic people and preparing them for leadership roles.
Compassionate Leadership, ACCA, Accounting & Business Magazine, March 2023
How to be a Compassionate Leader, ACCA Members, Live Webinar, Dec 2022
The How of Helping, ACCA, Accounting & Business Magazine, Jan 2022
Compassion fatigue in community nursing: what is it, who is susceptible, and what can be done?. British Journal of Community Nursing. 2024 Mar 2;29(3):132-136
Why are some people susceptible to Super-Helper Syndrome and what can be done about it?. British Journal of Community Nursing. 2023 Oct 2;28(10):513-516