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.

31/07/2026

The biggest shift a senior leader has to make isn’t operational 🫀 it’s emotional 🫀

I’m seeing a pattern in organisations everywhere 👀

Talented leaders are being promoted into strategic roles, yet they’re still diving back into the detail, solving yesterday’s problems and firefighting for their teams 🤦🏻‍♀️

Why?
Because under pressure, our brains naturally seek certainty, control and familiarity. Neuroscience tells us that when we’re under threat, we revert to what feels safe, not necessarily what’s most strategic ⇡

That’s why Emotional Leadership is a core part of our Elevate programme. We help senior leaders understand how emotions influence decision-making, relationships, resilience and their ability to create the thinking space needed to lead strategically rather than operationally ✨🖤

A huge thank you to the brilliant Lucy Newman at Halton Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 for investing in this journey with their leaders. Im loving facilitating these conversations, and we’re only just getting started 💁🏻‍♀️

More updates on this project to come, watch this space 👀

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30/07/2026

In recent weeks I had the privilege of spending time with the incredible Laurie Ryall and her senior leadership team at Action for Children Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

What. A. Team 🔊

We started the morning with some honest conversations about what it really takes to operate as one leadership team ✨🖤

Before the session, I asked them to reflect on a simple but powerful question⇣

What currently limits us from operating as one leadership team?

Together we explored the practical barriers, behavioural habits and mindset challenges that can sometimes get in the way of strategic thinking, collaboration and supporting one another to create the conditions for better conversations and stronger leadership✨🖤

Then we swapped the meeting room for the beautiful Welsh mountains ⛰📸

Because sometimes the best strategic thinking doesn’t happen around a boardroom table. It happens when you create space to walk, adapt, connect, challenge each other’s thinking and see things from a different perspective

There was plenty of laughter, honest reflection and some brilliant conversations along the way. It was a reminder that high-performing teams aren’t built through away days alone. They’re built through trust, curiosity and a shared commitment to keep growing together✨🖤

I can’t wait to see what this group of brilliant leaders achieve next. I have no doubt this is just the beginning 🏹

29/07/2026

What did I miss? 👀

A week away has a funny way of reminding you what really matters ✨🖤

Yes, the inbox is full
Yes, the to-do list has somehow grown legs
And yes... I’m wondering where to start!

But one thing I’ve learnt over the years is that resilience isn’t built by constantly pushing harder, sometimes it’s built by giving yourself permission to stop ◼️

The best leaders I coach don’t perform at their best because they never switch off. They perform because they know when they need to ✨🖤

So today, I’m easing back in. One conversation, one decision and one step at a time. So fill me in ⇢

What’s one thing that’s happened in your world while I’ve been away?
A big win?
A challenge?
A lesson learnt?
Or maybe something you’re looking forward to?

I’d genuinely love to hear 💁🏻‍♀️

15/07/2026

There’s something really powerful about creating the time and space for a leadership team to pause ⬛

Yesterday I worked with the Senior Leadership Team at Action for Children Cymru, supporting them to step away from the day-to-day and focus on something just as important: how they lead together 🦾

It’s easy for leadership teams to become brilliant at leading their own services. The challenge is becoming one leadership team that collaborates across boundaries, tackles barriers together and takes collective ownership of outcomes ✨🖤

Throughout the morning we explored:
🔎 How well we know and understand each other
🔎 What gets in the way of operating as one team
🔎 What collective leadership looks like in practice
🔎 The behaviours and commitments that will help deliver better outcomes for children

The aim wasn’t simply to have a good conversation. It was to leave with stronger connections, greater alignment and a shared commitment to leading differently ✨🖤

Because when leaders adapt, connect and work collectively, everyone benefits, especially the people they’re there to serve. Looking forward to a morning of honest conversations, fresh thinking and purposeful leadership ⬛

10/07/2026

One of the most powerful lessons I’ve learned in leadership is that real impact comes through strong partnerships✨🖤

Working alongside Helen Horton from Love Recruitment to support the collective cause at Oxygen Activeplay has reinforced just how much value trusted partnerships bring↗️

It’s never just about delivering a service, it’s about sharing ideas, challenging thinking and working towards a common purpose to create better outcomes for the organisation ⬆️ and having fun along the way!

As professionals working in the space these relationships help us grow too. They broaden our perspective, strengthen our practice and enable us to respond with greater agility as organisations navigate change. The best leaders know they don’t have all the answers, they build partnerships that help them adapt, innovate and create lasting value ✨🖤

If you are looking for a true partner in recruitment let me introduce you to Helen 🫶🏻

A question to leave you with this week:

How intentional are you about building partnerships that strengthen your leadership and create value beyond the immediate task?

08/07/2026

Yesterday’s at Oxygen Activeplay & Ninja Warrior UK Adventure Parks was one of those moments that makes you stop and reflect ⏮️

I first started working with the Senior Leadership Team back in 2022/23. Since then we’ve coached leaders through change with Pivot, supported Park Managers to lead people through Elevate, helped deliver on a Future Leaders programme that saw Aspiring leaders step into their potential, and today we continue that journey through our Edge Coaching Retainer 💁🏻‍♀️

This is what long-term leadership investment looks like ✨🖤

Oxygen is no longer just a successful business. It’s a performing organisation ⬆️

You can feel it in the conversations, the confidence of the leaders, the vibe between teams, and the culture they’ve intentionally created. Leadership has become part of how they think, how they make decisions and how they grow their people, and I love it!

I’m incredibly grateful that Unlocq Leadership has been trusted to walk alongside them on this journey ✨🖤

To everyone at Oxygen 🙏 thank you. Your positive intent, ambition and commitment to your people is something really special. I genuinely can’t wait to see where the next six months takes us ↗️

I’ll be tagging the amazing People Team because they have been instrumental in making this happen. If you’re curious about what a transformational leadership journey really looks like, speak to them. They’ve lived it 🎬

Here’s to the next chapter ✨🖤

Peta Young Rachel Smith Misha Dixon

06/07/2026

So far, 2026 has been all about senior leadership development and executive coaching 🔎

But as we hit the halfway point, my attention is turning back to change leaders. I’m delighted that our award-winning Pivot Programme has just been commissioned by an organisation in Wales. Even better? It will be delivered as a 1:1 coaching journey ✨🖤

When I launched Unlocq Leadership in January, I said I believed 2026 would be the year of personalised leadership development. Organisations would need flexible, tailored solutions that worked for individuals as much as teams

The market is proving exactly that 🦾

That’s why every programme in the Unlocq Suite can now be experienced as a coaching journey, giving organisations a practical solution when cohort numbers don’t stack up or leaders need more bespoke support ✨🖤

If you’ve got a leadership development need but don’t have the numbers for a full programme, let’s have a conversation about how coaching could deliver exactly what your leaders need. Sometimes the biggest transformation happens one leader at a time ↗↗↗

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04/07/2026

This week’s coaching reminded me of something 👀

The best leaders don’t try to become someone else, they become more intentional versions of themselves ⇣⇣

Not the busiest
Not the loudest
Not the one with all the answers

⇢The version of themselves that makes better decisions under pressure
⇢Has the conversations they’ve been avoiding
⇢Leads with confidence rather than certainty
⇢Knows when to challenge and when to listen

Leadership readiness isn’t about changing who you are, it’s about becoming the leader your role now requires you to be

That’s where coaching makes the difference, because growth doesn’t happen in the big moments, it happens in the conversations that change the way you think 👀

If you’re ready for your next level of leadership, maybe it’s time to find your Edge ✨🖤

01/07/2026

Who says strategy can’t come with ice lollies? 🍦☀️

Last week, in the middle of the London heatwave, I spent the day facilitating the Senior Leadership Team at Oxygen ✨🖤

The objective wasn’t to solve every operational challenge, it was to create the space to step out of operations and into strategy ⇢⇡

When senior leaders have time to think together and study neuroscience ☞ something shifts

Conversations become clearer, decisions become stronger, teams become more aligned ✨🖤

By the end of the day there was greater clarity, stronger ownership and a shared understanding of how this team wants to lead through the next phase of their journey ⇡⇡⇡

A great team. Great conversations. Great outcomes ✨🖤

And yes... the ice lollies were definitely a strategic intervention 💁🏻‍♀️I’m obsessed with the Mallow Twister, have you tried it yet? 🩷🤍

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29/06/2026

☞A week ago last Friday, this was me...

Laptop open
Horse packed
One eye on the clock
Waiting for a client to send the final details so I could finish the comms before heading off for the weekend 🐴

Then it was straight back into it last Monday 🚆🏢

A weekend away completely recharged me, followed by a train to London in a heatwave, public transport chaos, a full facilitation day and a diary that didn’t really come up for air

Needless to say... this weekend I paid the energy bill 💤

It got me thinking about authenticity in leadership, and how it can make us run at everything without boundaries 🏃🏻‍♀️

In resilience practice we talk a lot about boundaries and work-life balance, but is the goal really to achieve perfect balance?

Or is it about knowing when to sprint, when to recover and being honest with yourself when you’ve pushed a little too hard?

I’m not sure any of us ever truly master it, not even the Coaches!

What I do know is that the weekend away filled my pot. The week emptied it. This weekend, I spent time filling it again, and here I am showing up for another big week ✨🖤

Maybe that’s leadership too, is anyone else still trying to work this one out?

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Chasewood View Office
Ross On Wye
HR97GR

Telephone

+447402998815

Website

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

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