Meet our team of experts

Caroline Dakin

Founder and Head of Learning & Development

Caroline is our Head of Learning & Development and the founder and owner of Caroline Dakin Associates. Her thought-provoking training programmes help businesses across the globe to build high-performing teams. Her unique and interactive delivery style encourages participants to question their leadership qualities and challenges them to, not only reach but surpass their potential. Backed up by neuroscience and supplemented with practical tools, techniques and resources, her training inspires action and change for a better, more resilient workplace. Caroline is also an accomplished speaker and can be found sharing her unique take on resilience at corporate leadership events, national awareness days, industry conferences, and educational seminars. 

Marita Nanson-Cook

Leadership & Management Coach

Marita is our Leadership & Management Coach, working with executive and senior management teams. Her personalised coaching programmes build confident, inspiring, authentic leaders capable of leading high-performing teams. Marita places great emphasis on self-awareness, drawing on her clients’ professional and personal motivators and helping them to overcome limiting beliefs which restrict their leadership capacity. From day-to-day management through to transformational change she equips leaders with the skills they need to maximise team performance, engagement and wellbeing.

Gemma Cooke

Business Administrator

Gemma is our Business Administrator, providing support to our training team and clients. She makes sure that our training delegates are equipped with creative, engaging training materials and produces interesting personal development resources and content to supplement our courses. Highly organised and efficient, Gemma is the ideal person to manage our training and speaker programme, making sure that everyone is in the right place at the right time.

Laura Scarfe

Trainer

Laura is a Trainer, specialising in body language and influencing. Her ground-breaking training helps leaders to build rapport and trust with their employees, colleagues and business partners. Laura helps her clients to master non-verbal communication by developing their ability to observe and assess unspoken body language in others and identify and regulate their own. Backed up by scientific research, Laura’s training and practical take-away tips help leaders to be aware of their physical presence and to project positive body language which puts confidence in others. Laura is also an accomplished speaker, delivering body language keynote speeches, workshops and individual executive coaching across the UK.

Kerry Sutcliffe

Leadership & Management Coach

Kerry is our Leadership and Management Coach, with extensive experience in multiple sectors.  Coaching was a natural choice for Kerry, as someone who is naturally engaging and passionate about people. She cares deeply about empowering people and seeing them flourish. With her positive energy along with her commitment to creating and providing a safe, creative and transparent space, Kerry empowers people to be courageous, to open up, reaching new awareness and take meaningful action.  Her leadership superpower is a bright and positive presence combined with an honest, open straightforward, down to earth attitude.

Carys Ward

Trainer

With over a decade of expertise in organisational transformation and behaviour change working across all management levels, from entry-level to senior leadership and board-level directorship, Carys leads in applying best practices in organisational development including culture transformation, leadership development, employee resilience, and team development.  Carys drives results through impactful insights and grounds her strategies in cutting-edge research, equipping organisations with evidence-based practices to set them up for success, aligning with their strategic vision and providing adaptability in a complex landscape.  Her upbeat, encouraging, and engaging style provides a rich learning experience for attendees and embeds inclusivity into the core of every program she leads. 

Sarah-Jayne

Inclusion, Neurodiversity and Access to Work coaching

SJ specialises in inclusion, Neurodiversity and Access to Work coaching, with over 20 years of experience in the Performing Arts and Education sectors. SJ empowers young people, graduates and professionals to establish growth mindsets, implement personalised strategies and advocate for the unique abilities and perspectives of diverse teams.

With a strong commitment to fostering inclusive environments, SJ actively supports businesses in integrating socially responsible practices and ethical leadership. Her expertise shared at workshops, events and conferences serves as a catalyst for inspiring others to lead positive change for future generations