Unlocq Leadership

Name: Unlocq Leadership
Address: Chasewood View Office, Ross on Wye, HR97GR, GB
Telephone: +447402998815
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Neuroscience-led programmes to shift behaviour, sharpen strategy, and accelerate leadership impact — one mind at a time ✨🖤

Nearly three quarters of UK organisations report leadership and management skills deficits, and a vast proportion of today's leaders have been fast tracked and are not ready to lead their organisation in the future. We're here to help your people become the best leaders they can be. Through our thought leadership, based on the latest neuroscience and performance psychology, we design personalised,

context specific development programmes that transition your people from managers through to strategic leaders.

12/06/2026

📸 Early start this morning with Esme before school. The days are long, the weeks are short, and somehow we’re already here again, Friday! 😊

I woke up this morning convinced I’d achieved absolutely nothing this week 🫣

Then I remembered…

✔️ Shared my leadership story with professionals creating safer workplaces for women
✔️ Designed multiple senior leadership experiences to help organisations find focus, clarity and direction
✔️ Coached some brilliant leaders through performance conversations
✔️ Worked with partners and collaborators on exciting projects
✔️ Rebranded materials, managed suppliers and improved our client experience
✔️ Supported senior leaders stepping into their next level of leadership
✔️ Did the life admin, family catch-ups and somehow found time to learn to ride my beautiful horse 🐴

No wonder I’m feeling a little pooped today!

A reminder for any leader ending the week feeling like they haven’t done enough:

You don’t need to solve every problem right now, only those that stand in your way✨🖤

Take a moment to look back before you rush into next week. You might be surprised by how much value you’ve created 🪎

Enjoy your Friday x

10/06/2026

Next week we launch our Elevate Programme with leaders at Halton Wales ✨🖤

We kick off with our Thoughtful Leadership Class, supporting strategic leaders to shape culture, influence performance, and lead with greater intention 🦾

The demands on senior leaders have changed. The pace is faster, complexity is higher, and the pressure to make good decisions has never been greater

Neuroscience tells us that when leaders operate under constant pressure, they can become trapped in reactive thinking, focusing on the urgent rather than the important. Thoughtful leadership creates the space to pause, think strategically, regulate emotional responses, and lead from a place of clarity rather than habit ✨🖤

The ability to shift from operational pressure to strategic perspective is an essential leadership capability ↗

I can’t wait to get stuck in with this group and support them as they shape the culture and future of their organisation. More highlights from this project as it unfolds. Have a great day!

08/06/2026

Last week’s coaching day in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 taught me two things...

🌧 I wasn’t ready for the weather change
🚨 I wasn’t ready for the surprise fire drill

But I was ready for a room full of strategic leaders committed to taking their coaching goals forward ✨🖤

Day one of a six-month coaching journey alongside our Elevate programme, supporting leaders who shape culture, influence performance, and drive change

The theme? Confidence 🛫

Confidence to trust yourself
Confidence to have THAT conversation
Confidence not to abandon yourself when the pressure is on

A brilliant group with huge potential. Looking forward to seeing what we Unlocq together, one mind at a time ✨🖤

29/05/2026

This week reminded me why matters more than ever 💁🏻‍♀️

Behind every strategy, acquisition, restructure, growth target, or operational challenge are human beings trying to carry enormous responsibility well ✨🖤

This week at Unlocq we’ve been:

⇢Coaching aspiring leaders finding their voice
⇢Supporting middle leaders carrying operational pressure
⇢Working with senior leaders shaping culture and performance
⇢Designing strategic leadership experiences for organisations entering their next phase of growth

And across every conversation, one theme keeps appearing:

☞Readiness

Not just readiness for the role
☞Readiness for complexity
☞Readiness for pressure
☞Readiness for influence
☞Readiness for the decisions leadership now demands

The organisations that will thrive over the next few years won’t simply have the best strategy. They’ll have leaders psychologically equipped to deliver it✨🖤

That’s why we built the Unlocq suite: Aspire⇢Flow⇢Pivot⇢Elevate

Leadership development designed for every stage of the journey. The future of leadership isn’t just capability. It’s capacity ✨🖤

Happy Friday everyone x

28/05/2026

One of the most underestimated leadership skills? ✨🖤
Giving effective feedback during growth, pressure, and organisational change

This week, from my garden, I’m designing a bespoke leadership session for a Senior Leadership Team navigating:

☞Increasing operational complexity
☞Acquisitions and integration
☞Centralisation
☞Evolving leadership structures
☞And the reality of becoming a multi-brand business

This is the part of scaling nobody talks about enough. As businesses evolve, leaders are often expected to maintain performance, protect culture, drive accountability, manage uncertainty, and keep people engaged all at the same time 👀

But feedback delivered poorly during change can create:

⇣Confusion
⇣Defensiveness
⇣Emotional fatigue
⇣Disengagement
⇣And leadership distrust

The strongest leaders know feedback isn’t just communication. It’s regulation. Timing. Clarity. Self-awareness. Emotional intelligence. Strategic intent ✨🖤

In high-performing organisations, feedback becomes part of the culture, not an event people fear. That’s the difference between leaders who manage change… and leaders who stabilise people through it ☝︎

27/05/2026

Half term. Heatwave. Coaching calls between ice lollies and strategy decks 🍦

Founder life this week looks like balancing school holidays with supporting leaders navigating real organisational complexity, and honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way (although I have moaned a lot in this heat!)

This week inside Unlocq Leadership we are:

⇢Delivering our Edge coaching retainers across multiple leadership levels and orgs
⇢Designing a bespoke session for senior leaders on delivering effective feedback during periods of change and growth
⇢Supporting leaders operating inside uncertainty, pressure, restructuring, and rapid decision-making

Because leadership readiness isn’t built when things are calm, it’s built in the middle of complexity. The organisations thriving right now are the ones investing in leaders before the next phase arrives, not after the cracks appear ✨🖤

The demands on leadership have changed. Operational leadership alone is no longer enough. Leaders now need the internal capability to:

⇢Regulate under pressure
⇢Communicate with clarity
⇢Deliver challenge without damage
⇢Lead people through ambiguity
⇢And hold trust while driving performance

That’s the work ✨🖤
And that’s exactly where we love operating

22/05/2026

The first time I told my story of economic abuse publicly, I thought I might fall apart ⛓️‍💥

Not because I didn’t know what had happened to me, but because saying it out loud meant finally accepting it myself ✨🖤

There’s something incredibly exposing about telling the truth after surviving in silence, confusion and self-doubt for so long. Especially when the outside world sees you as successful, capable and strong 🦾

But what I didn’t expect was what came next:
The healing
The freedom

The messages from women quietly saying:
“Me t👀”

That’s when I realised storytelling doesn’t just heal the person telling it. It creates permission for other women to recognise themselves t👀

And sadly, women in leadership experiencing sabotage through economic abuse is far more common than people realise. So I’ll keep speaking. Because if my story helps one woman recognise the signs sooner, leave earlier, or feel less alone, then it matters ✨🖤

This journey has already taken my story from podcast, to live events, to conversations connected to national policy and the Home Office 🏢

And I know this is only the beginning. Current speaking topics to Unlocq Her Leadership✨🖤 include:

🚺Ready Before the Role
🚺Strategic Sisterhood
🚺Practice Radical Readiness
🚺From Invisible to Influential
🚺The Conduct vs Capability Trap
🚺Economic Abuse and Career Sabotage
🚺Grooming in Professional Spaces
🚺Rebuilding Identity After Abuse

Speaker brochure coming soon 🎤

But I’m ready now. So if your women’s network, leadership event or organisation would benefit from these conversations, I’d love to collaborate ✨🖤

A huge thank you to Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs OBE, CF and Natalie Collins from Own My Life for helping women like me turn survival into something purposeful, and to more recent connections Nicki Clarke from Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse & DAHA and Aimée Victoria Sims from Adecco for supporting me further🫂

Let’s keep this important work moving forward for women everywhere ↗

20/05/2026

It was board meeting time again this week 👀

My board remain highly engaged in the strategic direction of Unlocq Leadership and continue to provide very direct feedback on my performance ✨🖤

Thankfully, this quarter’s review is shaping up to be positive, we just need a final push in June to reach our goals ↗

The board acknowledged:
※Strong growth
※Exciting new client partnerships
※Good progress on leadership readiness initiatives
※And acceptable catering during meetings

They also noted that whilst momentum is building, there is “still quite a lot to do” - Fair assessment honestly ✓

Building a micro business while balancing operations and strategic growth is stretching at times, and it reminded me of something I hear often from leaders in my coaching sessions:

Trying to lead strategically whilst still holding everything together operationally is hard 👀

So if that’s you right now, you are absolutely not alone ✨🖤

One thing I’m really excited about is bringing more of ‘The Collective’ into the spotlight from June onwards, so expect to see more of the brilliant people behind Unlocq and the work they’re doing to help us reach more leaders far and wide ✨🖤

Because this isn’t just a business for me
It’s a mission

Me, my team and my board of directors here are committed to ensuring neuroscience meets leadership, one mind at a time ✨🖤

More board updates coming soon 👩🏻‍🦰🧑🏻‍🦱

Miranda Jenkins Nina Lovatt Liz Gait Michelle Lawrence Ashton Hewitt Sarah-Jayne Bray Sion Rowlands ✨🖤

18/05/2026

This is your Monday motivation to find your EDGE ✨🖤

Imagine your leaders having access to an internal coach at the exact moment they need support

Not six months later on a programme
Not squeezed into an annual appraisal conversation

But real-time leadership development that fits into the rhythm of their working day. That’s exactly why we created the EDGE Coaching Retainer at Unlocq ✨🖤

Our neuro-coaching approach helps leaders:
→Strengthen decision-making
→Navigate change with more confidence
→Improve people management capability
→Challenge limiting thinking patterns
→Stay accountable to organisational goals

And the best part? Leaders own the journey

They decide when they book sessions, what they need support with, and where they want to grow, while still aligning to the wider strategic goals of the organisation✨🖤

We’re already seeing incredible outcomes with organisations using this model because coaching is becoming part of leadership culture, not something reserved for when things go wrong

There’s also a myth that 1:1 coaching has to be expensive or inaccessible.
It doesn’t ⚔️

Sometimes the most impactful development strategy is giving leaders the space to think better, more often. Especially in a world where leadership readiness is becoming the defining competency of 2026 ✨🖤

Lead with intention, not limitation. The only real boundary is the one you build in your own mind ✨🖤

15/05/2026

Yesterday I had the best time with the Senior Leadership Team at Halton Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

We spent the day together for a discovery session at the start of their Elevate journey, where I had the chance to meet each leader individually, understand their ambitions and hear what they want from the programme

These days are always so insightful💡

I genuinely believe leaders are the experts in what they need, which is why I always say our approach is a partnership, not a prescription for development. That’s the Unlocq way ✨🖤

One thing came through strongly across the whole team:

Their undeniable positive intent to achieve their goals, both individually and collectively

Now the work begins 🛫

Refining strategic leadership capability through our Elevate programme and helping each leader find their Edge through monthly coaching support ✨🖤

It’s going to be an intense leadership development journey, but I already know we’ll have a lot of fun along the way too

Helping leaders become truly ready for what’s next is the part of this work I love most, thank you to Lucy Newman for trusting me with this lovely team 🙏

Looking forward to sharing more as the journey unfolds ✨🖤

Have a lovely weekend everyone x

Address

Chasewood View Office
Ross On Wye
HR97GR

Telephone

+447402998815

Website

http://www.unlocq.co.uk/

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