The most expensive waste in your organisation is the capability you already pay for and don't use.
Organisations lose so much when good people stay quiet.
As a COO, you want to maximise business impact by making best use of the talent you have.
It's really that simple.
Paula Beattie, CEO & Founder of Inspire Confidence
Confidence means people speak up and share their ideas with conviction. They engage and collaborate.
All key drivers for business success.
Is Your Workplace Helping People To Succeed?
People are staying quiet.
Your surveys flag 'communication and engagement issues.'
Underneath, the real question is whether people trust what they know, believe their voice lands, are clear on expectations and feel they have the autonomy to take decisions.
The easy answer is to focus only on creating psychological safety. It is not enough.
Psychological safety opens the door.
It takes confidence to walk through it.
The four things I hear most often
"This person is so capable but they're quiet. How do I help them speak up?"
"We have a 'Them And Us' culture between the board and individual contributors, or between two teams. How do we break down walls?"
"Since the change, people aren't collaborating, joining in or putting their hand up the way they used to - and our managers are out of ideas."
"Our most talented people are leaving and no one is quite sure how to make them want to stay."
What are the benefits of confidence training?
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People speak up in meetings to share ideas and raise concerns without overthinking, and articulate themselves clearly and confidently
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Employees begin volunteering to deliver presentations without being thrown by the pressure
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Individual contributors who had plateaued start applying for promotions and getting them
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Team members are willing to challenge constructively
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Managers initiate difficult conversations, with the skills to preserve the relationship
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People previously dismissed as too quiet, actively participate in change initiatives
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Managers build trust and improve their team's engagement scores, whilst seeing greater retention of key people.
I help your people speak up with
conviction and self belief
Trusted by people and culture leaders
Why clients call me...
You don't need a wellbeing programme. You need to build confidence that changes how people speak up under pressure: on a customer-facing call, in communication within teams and across different floors and bigger rooms.
That's where I come in.
I have spent 25 years building confidence, agency, clarity and safety inside 350+ high-pressure teams across F1, aerospace, the NHS and engineering.
My expertise in engineering and change management - together with the fact that my own confidence once deserted me and I learned how to restore it - mean I don't just understand how low self-esteem feels. I understand what it takes to rebuild a person's confidence so they can speak up with conviction and self-belief.
And I can train your leaders to build it too.
My ideal clients
The COO, Head of L&D, Head of People and Culture or senior leader for an organisation of 250 employees upwards, wanting to help people speak up and contribute with conviction.
It's fine if you want a small programme of confidence coaching and training rather than large-scale cultural change. We can also discuss training your own internal L&D team to deliver my training.
However, I would not be a fit for an organisation who just wants to improve its performance figures without caring about the people working there.
If you fit the criteria, feel free to book a free 15 min consultation here.
My Programmes
The Quiet Power® programme builds confidence in individuals. Cohorts of up to 15 people across your organisation, in a supportive group. 6 modules. Time taken around 4 months. Includes ebooks.
Read more about Quiet Power training
The Lead To Inspire programme trains managers to build confidence in others.
The Build Unbreakable Confidence keynote is a 60 minute online or in-person talk that provides practical tools and techniques to take back control of our confidence, resilience and self belief and live the lives that we deserve.
I also provide corporate workshops, including bite-sized versions of my training for those who are time-deficient.
My clients
My clients include Microsoft, NHS Scotland, HSBC's Global Tech Office, Johnson & Johnson, as well as smaller consultancies and engineering companies.
I also work with charities including The Not Forgotten, ActionAid UK, Amnesty International, Colostomy UK and many others. I offer one speaker event per month to a charity free of charge, so please get in touch if you would like to apply.
My confidence coaching and training have reached more than 5,900 people across 83 countries and 5 continents. I have an online community of over 4,000 young professionals called Think Yourself Confident and regularly host live webinars. My Inspire Confidence weekly newsletter has 2,000 subscribers, learning how to build confidence in yourself and others.
Subscribe to my newsletter here.
How do we measure the change?
Lasting confidence is not measured by how inspired someone feels at the end of a workshop. It is measured by what changes in the weeks and months afterwards: speaking up, leading more confidently, handling difficult conversations, contributing ideas and taking ownership.
What's the first step in working with me?
Every intervention starts with a conversation. Tell me what you are trying to achieve and I will tell you what I have seen work in similar organisations.
Book a free 15 minute consultation →
Not ready to talk yet? Download the case study or the full services information pack to see the work in more detail.
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Want to see for yourself what's happening with your culture? Try my diagnostic for free here →
It provides you with clues to the barriers holding back your people through the lens of four pillars -
clarity, agency, psychological safety and confidence.
- Do they have clarity on how their role makes a meaningful contribution?
- Do they have agency to make improvements?
- Do they feel safe enough to voice their thoughts?
- Do they feel confident that their voice will be heard and is worth listening to?
Get a personalised scorecard in 3 minutes.