What our clients say

“I had the privilege of working with Cornelia on an executive training program. Working with Cornelia was a great help in further expanding my skills and experience to take into my new senior role: this training has being crucial to learning further; and creating increased self-awareness on my side, and most importantly giving me the tools to manage situations better. I have loved the sessions and the discussions during the meetings. Cornelia is extremely passionate and great to work with. Cornelia is focused on positive outcomes but ensuring you get the practical analysis and explanations so that you are able to understand the root of the topic and how to improve going forward. I look forward to working with Cornelia again in the future!”

Ricardo Mantovani, Chief Financial Officer at BNP Paribas Personal Finance (following coaching was awarded South Africa top 35 under 35)

“Cornelia has designed and delivered our Leading Together programme’s and wider school leadership training in wellbeing and resilience in Leadership for the past three consecutive years. She has worked with us since 2017 and has consistently received positive feedback from all the headteacher coaches who work on and deliver our programme. All of her sessions are really thought-provoking with clear grounding in evidence. She presents with absolute clarity and manages both face to face and online delivery expertly. She comes across as both lovely and highly knowledgeable and professional – and very popular with everyone she provides development to. I would highly recommend her work to any organisation”.

Bridget Clay, Director of School Leadership at Teach First

“I could not recommend Cornelia highly enough Cornelia has worked alongside us for a number of years at Power Testing developing our managers and leaders to be the best they can be and consulting with, coaching and training our management team 1:1 and as a team. She creates bespoke programmes for us and has achieved excellent results to support us to manage people and change, to create engagement and psychological safety and help our management team understand their individual and team strengths to increase collaboration and performance. Her work with us led to increased sales, turnover, operational profit, net profit and evaluation from the management team saw an increase of managers “feeling equipped to manage” by an average of 129%.”

Chris Park, Managing Director, Power Testing

“Cornelia has been a revelation for our Senior Management Team. The 8 strong team hold a variety of experience and strengths, which have been highlighted and built upon through Cornelia's tailored programme. We now have a greater understanding, renewed confidence and appreciation of one another as well as learning new management techniques to ensure we are all effective people managers. It is no stretch of the imagination to say we all now bounce into work, eager to tackle the issues we face as a united front, whereas previously we would operate in isolation. The future is extremely bright following the skills and mindset Cornelia has passed onto us all”

Brad Manning, HR Director, Power Testing

“Cornelia is a credible, professional facilitator who feeds well off of and engages openly with her audience. Her training has provided new insights, new learning and the team felt totally cared for during the session. We were delighted and consider this work an important part and highlight of our strategy.”

Fallon Painter, CEO, Media Tree

“Thanks for the training! I found it incredibly useful, thought provoking and insightful. I love it when people come into your lives and change your way of seeing it.”

Clare Spence, former headteacher, Achievement Partner for Leading Together

 “I will be able to connect my coaching at a 1:1 and group level to the strategic importance of resilience at an individual and team’s effectiveness as a leader today, tomorrow and long into the future. All the strategies will become an integral element of my ability to support schools effectively.”

Martin Fleetwood, former headteacher, Achievement Partner for Leading Together

“Thank you so much for yesterday, it worked well on several levels and was very useful on a personal and professional reflection. Your skill with us as you dance with what we say and tease out themes and connections is a delight to experience.”

Tessa Thomas, former headteacher, Achievement Partner for Leading Together

 "I can’t thank you enough for such a thought provoking and inspirational session this morning. I have received an overwhelming number of comments from colleagues already thanking you for the session."

Laura Douse, Deputy headteacher, St Gregory’s Catholic School, Kent Catholic Schools partnership:

“Thank you so much for your time, facilitation and leadership of the session and the rich resources and reflections that you shared with.  Like every session that you lead us through, you leave us wanting to explore the themes further, read more and motivate us to stand tall in the work that we undertake with our colleagues. I look forward to the opportunity to work together again with you. Thank you for your support this year which has been challenging on many many levels but I reflect that through engaging with your work and providing us with the training, I have been able to utilise those experiences and draw strength from them during the difficult times.”

 Nicholas Harrison, former headteacher, Achievement Partner for Leading Together.

“Participants from Insead have fed back that your group sessions were highly valued. You have autonomy and positivity in your approach and you created a safe environment for developing leaders to express themselves freely”

Ben Ponne, Neo Leaders, on behalf of INSEAD business school - one of the world's leading and largest graduate business schools

“Cornelia has delivered thought provoking and engaging sessions for us on multiple occasions. These sessions have provided practical tools and techniques to support wellbeing for our colleagues to support our participants in their schools as well as to support themselves”

Senior Colleague, Teach First

“Her work and concepts are invaluable learning for leaders in all contexts”

Dennis Simms, Co-chair of Heads Forward