Kelly Wakeman is the founder of Start Inspiring, a leadership and culture consulting firm dedicated to helping high-growth businesses succeed, with a mission to make work work for everyone - balancing People and Profit!
Start Inspiring specialises in supporting high-growth, predominantly PE-backed scale-ups through transformative leadership and culture strategies. As a PCC-qualified coach with executive experience across Tech, Retail, Hospitality, Manufacturing, and Construction, and over three years of scaling her own start-up, Kelly is highly regarded among investors, founders, CEO’s and HR leaders.
Her firm is frequently entrusted to guide clients toward meaningful transformation, creating the foundations for sustainable success. Starting with a fit for future assessment, we can help you to identify the biggest areas of impact and either stop there or provide end-to-end HR support or high-impact, ad-hoc people projects and leadership development; together we'll help you to drive long-term success for your organisation and people.
Emma and the team at Teamwork People help unlock energy and full potential, creating healthy, happy individuals, teams and organisations. They work from a place of knowing, as qualified high performing team working experts, they bring a human-centric, authentic, caring approach to post change team support. Creating the trust and safety in a team to unlock curiosity, confidence and constructive exploration of a team's strengths and development opportunities. The team can't unlearn the guidance given to them from Teamwork People, they simply have new habits and as a result are healthier, happier and more productive in all aspects of their lives” – Kelly Wakeman, Start Inspiring