Our founder, Dom, is ADHD and Autistic. He has worked around the world as a facilitator and high-performance executive coach. He is a creative and caring professional who is down to earth, realistic and continually focused on our clients getting a faster and more effective solution.
Having a wealth of experience spanning 35 years from customer-serving front line roles, to senior strategic roles, and a great pedigree of learning, he offers coaching with a sprinkling of mentoring, a dash of challenge, and often some humour. An NLP Master practitioner, Certified Systems and Complexity facilitator as well as a certified counsellor, Dom works at a senior level in all business sectors as well as supporting our pay-it-forward community.
NLP Master and Trainer – Sue Knight Training
Complexity and Systems Thinking Facilitator – Cognitive Edge
High Performance Coach – Sue Knight Training
Self As Instrument – Roffey Park
Change Management Practitioner – APMG
Mandy lives in Devon and works at a senior executive level as Vice Principal, Head of Quality and Standards, and Registrar at Norland College in Bath.
Her career has included working closely with babies, young children, and their families, as well as young people in colleges and universities, and this has given her an appreciation of the importance of seeing and knowing the value of every individual.
She is passionate about supporting people to reach their full potential by removing barriers and she understands that the earliest experiences in a child’s life have an impact on their physical and mental wellbeing, so it’s incredibly important to ensure babies and young children are understood and loved right from the start.
She is involved in Innate Change because she wants to change the world, one person at a time, by creating living and working environments where everyone can thrive.
Rachel lives in Leamington Spa and is an experienced business leader, executive coach, and accomplished marketing consultant with twenty years of expertise in marketing and communications. Rachel is proud to have progressed from an entry-level marketing position to a Board Director (during her 15-year tenure at Baxi Heating), whilst advocating for inclusive working practices and championing flexible working arrangements for everyone.
In addition to her professional accomplishments, Rachel takes pride in being a devoted mother of two, one of whom has ADHD. Her journey in supporting and nurturing a neurodiverse child has profoundly shaped her perspective on life, particularly in regard to the structures of the education system and the workplace. Rachel strongly believes that everyone possesses incredible potential when provided with the right environment and support tailored to meet their unique needs.
Rachel is a positive, committed, and caring coach who thrives on building honest and hardworking relationships with her clients. Supporting leaders, managers, and teams, she facilitates lasting positive changes and goal achievement. Passionate about talent development, Rachel fosters both personal and business growth. Certified (Level 7) and skilled in coaching and mentoring, she offers a powerful fusion of workplace leadership experience and executive coaching, providing clients with invaluable support tailored to their needs.
Rachel is involved in Innate Change because she is passionate about making a positive difference and wants to use her energy and drive to help as many people as possible to live and work in environments where they can thrive.
James lives in Surrey and works as a digital marketing manager at Waitrose & Partners. As someone who is neurodivergent himself, he’s passionate about empowering individuals with unique cognitive styles to thrive. Having experienced first-hand the challenges and triumphs of navigating the workplace as a neurodivergent individual, he’s a strong advocate for employment wellbeing and mental health.
James is very excited to work as a Non-Executive Director in an organisation which is ambitious to remove barriers towards accessing coaching and unlocking the potential in people. Having had treatment and support from such a young age, and with many people not being as lucky as he was, James is hungry to be involved in helping Innate Change support those people so they can enjoy similar career and social life successes and to grow an understanding of neurodiversity in the broader society
Julia works as a freelance consultant and associate lecturer in early years. She is also a qualified homeopath with her own practice. Julia is a graduate of Norland College and has since owned a private day care nursery in Somerset for the last 23 years, which has been consistently identified as demonstrating outstanding practice.
She has been involved in various projects across Somerset in a consultancy role, disseminating good practice across the county, specialising in leadership and management. Julia has also delivered training courses across the country on topics such as the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), leadership, two-year olds and the EYFS.
She has recently retired from her post at Norland as Head of Careers & Consultancy but still works for Norland on an ad hoc basis.
Julia has trained in Emotion Coaching & Neuroscience in Early Years, delivering to institutions around the world. This is a particular interest of hers that has led her to Innate Change and its mission to support people with neurodiversity, both in the workplace and in their personal lives.
Nisrin is a solicitor specialising in Employment Law. She has had her own practice, NB Employment Law Solicitors, since 2010 and in 2024, began working at the National Education Union as their lawyer for the London region.
As important as it is to protect employment rights in the workplace, Nisrin is very passionate about the work of Innate Change, which she sees as forging the next chapter of inclusivity in the workplace beyond attempting to assert rights, and where diverse people are able to thrive.
Jenny is a highly skilled and experienced executive coach, trained and certified by the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC). She has a fervent commitment to unlocking the potential of individuals in all aspects of life and of leadership teams. Jenny has a personal and professional experience in neurodiversity and has successfully led diverse and inclusive teams. She has developed a keen interest in coaching and supporting individuals, families, and organisations that include neurodivergence, advocating for accessible coaching for all.
Jenny’s clients deeply value the trust she builds, which facilitates deeper, more meaningful conversations and opportunities for growth. Her coaching approach is characterised by curiosity, attentive listening, personal reflection, and raising self-awareness. This allows her clients to gain clarity, overcome limiting beliefs and challenges, explore opportunities, and set goals and strategies for success.
Alison has worked in retail for 30 years in leading commercial, marketing, brand and IT teams. She has been a qualified coach since 2017and a coach supervisor since 2021.
She is truly interested in people as individuals, with all their differences, and has a passion for learning and for making a positive difference to individuals, teams and the businesses she works with. She loves being part of moving things forward and facilitating change and growth and believes that we all have knowledge waiting to be discovered that could unlock new learning, awareness and change.
As a coach she sees her role as being a guide, helping to unlock potential in the right way, and at the right pace for the client. With an open style and positive outlook, her approach to coaching is to listen, explore, challenge, and work with the client to achieve their goals and unlock their knowledge and awareness. Her aim is to build rapport and create an enjoyable, safe space where we are curious, gentle and challenging, and build mutual trust and respect. The coaching sessions will lead to self-awareness, new knowledge and thinking that will help the client move forward through thoughts, actions and conclusions.
Susie original trained as an actor and has always had an interest in the human condition. She is an engaging, creative and compassionate leadership development facilitator and coach and is hugely passionate to work with organisations, teams and individuals to inspire mindset shifts for personal growth and drive high performance.
Focussing on human behaviours, values, attitudes and beliefs, Susie aids people to unlock limiting assumptions and activate behavioural change from the inside out. With an enthusiasm to encourage diversity of thought and maximise the benefit of embracing all uniqueness within people and teams, she excels in creating an environment that feels inclusive, relaxed and safe to explore profound, life-changing possibilities
Gill is an experienced coach, NLP Master Practitioner, employee engagement specialist and people leader. Her passion is for encouraging greater confidence in others and she works with her intuition, empathy and a focus on personal strengths and she appreciates the opportunity to help others bring about positive change in their lives.
She believes that coaching can help anyone can achieve the outcome they are looking for. This could be working towards a particular solution, breaking down obstacles or improving peace of mind. Coaching offers time to focus on yourself, your emotions and experiences and look at events from a new perspective.
Having been coached herself, she knows firsthand how effective it can be. In 2017 she was diagnosed with a lung condition and had to work with a respiratory physiotherapist to ‘learn to breathe again’. This experience has brought about an increased awareness of her own and others’ breathing. Working intuitively, with conscious curiosity about how others breathe has given her new insights into her coaching work with clients. She is also a hearing aid wearer.
Gemma is a curious, creative ICF certified Integrative Coach. She has a wonderful and varied 17-year career in roles spanning communications, training, recruitment, human centred design and employee experience. Her passion for encouraging the self-belief and confidence of others is palpable. She’s an enthusiastic and passionate facilitator of growth, and her favourite days are when people leave the room feeling uplifted, hopeful, and curious about the significantly positive impact they could have on others, themselves, and their businesses.
Louise brings a strategic and people-centred approach to business operations. She has over 25 years of experience across data, finance, retail, IT, and social impact sectors and specialises in streamlining processes, enhancing team efficiency, and driving sustainable growth.
Guided by values of authenticity, integrity, connection, and positivity, Louise is passionate about supporting purpose-driven businesses, ensuring they have the systems, structure, and strategy to thrive. With a background in operational management, business development, and coaching, she excels at turning complex challenges into practical solutions with meaningful impact.
Committed to making a positive difference, she helps businesses and teams operate more effectively while fostering collaboration, clarity, and long-term success.
