founders
Co-Founder & Chair
Dr. Dame Neslyn Watson-Druée has an extensive background in nursing and the National Health Service (NHS). Throughout her career, she has held various positions, including nurse, midwife, health visitor, health promotion officer, deputy director of nurse education, and non-executive director in the NHS. Notably, she served as the Chair of NHS Kingston for a decade.
Dr. Dame Neslyn Watson-Druée is also a business psychologist and an accredited executive coach, primarily working with senior civil servants within the UK Government. In 1993, she played a pivotal role in laying the foundation for Leadership Development within the NHS by piloting Leadership, Career, and Personal Development for NHS staff. Her work formed the basis for the NHS Breakthrough Programme and later the establishment of the current NHS Leadership Academy.
In addition to her coaching practice, She has a diverse portfolio career, including roles as a patron to media organisations, trustee, leadership development consultant, and public speaker. Within her coaching practice, she focuses on high performance, appreciative inquiry, and emotional intelligence.
She holds numerous certifications and licences, including the Qualified European Test User Certificate (level 2) for Work and Organisational Assessment. She is also licensed to deliver various assessment tools, such as Lumina Spark, Lumina Leader, SDI, MBTI, Orpheus, Benchmarks, CPI, FIRO-B, Margerison McCann: TMP, TWP, QO2, and Linking Skills. Additionally, she possesses expertise in Situational Leadership, Negotiating Skills, and Influencing Skills profiles from MLR.
Co-Founder & CEO
Althea Grant is a dynamic and naturally talented professional speaker and keynote speaker, dedicated to helping others radically change their lives through speech. Drawing from personal experiences of overcoming systematic abuse and transforming adversity into a successful legal career and fulfilling life, she demonstrates that adversities are mere events in life and need not define us or shape our perspectives.
With extensive expertise in Family Law, Althea Grant is also an inspired coach. The journey as a speaker dates back to early childhood, reputedly starting to walk, cheekily talk at 6 or 8 months, and continuing to speak passionately ever since.
After a period of illness following a bereavement, Althea Grant sought ways to contribute more to the community. This led to attending a public speaking course in July 2012 at Andy Harrington’s Public Speakers University. At the end of the course, several attendees were chosen to demonstrate their newfound skills, and she was among them.
The rest, as they say, is history. Taking the stage to share Althea Grant’s story resulted in an overwhelming response, impressing Andy Harrington who immediately took her on as his first public speaking protégé. Within two months of completing the course, she was one of the speakers at the National Achievers Congress (NAC) at ExCel London, sharing the stage with notable figures such as Anthony Robbins, Donald Trump, Lord Sebastian Coe, and Andy Harrington.
2012, the year of the London Olympics, saw her as the warm-up act for Seb Coe. Since then, she has spoken on numerous stages in London and internationally, inspiring audiences with a powerful message of resilience and transformation.
