We help leaders build the psychological capability to perform under pressure. And we'd love to help you.
I founded Avenir because I believe the hardest leadership work is inner work. When leaders build the psychological capability to sit with discomfort, they lead with more courage, clarity, and impact — and that builds organisations that can withstand real pressure.
– Nadia Nagamootoo, Founder & CEO
How we work
We listen first, then design an approach built around your organisation's specific leadership and performance challenges.
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We bring you evidence and insight that helps you do your job better, grounded in psychological science, so you can build senior leadership buy-in fast.
Everything we do is measured. We track the behaviour change and performance impact our work creates, not just satisfaction scores.
FOUNDER & CEO
NADIA NAGAMOOTOO
Nadia is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, ICF-accredited coach, and behaviour change specialist with close to 20 years of experience helping leaders and organisations perform under pressure. She holds a distinction-awarded MBA and is the best-selling author of Beyond Discomfort: Why inclusive leadership is so hard (and what you can do about it).
Nadia's work is built on her proprietary Beyond Discomfort model - a framework for leading through uncertainty. Her approach is grounded in psychological science and measured in business outcomes: programmes she has designed and delivered have driven measurable shifts in leadership visibility and psychological safety at organisations including Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.
She has shared her thought leadership with organisations such as PwC, Nestlé, Kingfisher, CBRE, AstraZeneca, and Starbucks, and regularly moderates panels and appears as a podcast guest on leadership and behavioural science.
Meet our amazing team
SENIOR CONSULTANT
CLARE HARRIS
Clare brings global, multi-sector experience in leadership development, coaching, facilitation, and organisational psychology, with a particular focus on how
leaders build the capability to navigate complexity. As a qualified coach and organisational development practitioner, she's known for a practical, insight-led approach when partnering with clients. Clare has worked across automotive, publishing, technology, and not-for-profit sectors, in-house and as a consultant, designing and delivering leadership programmes in locations as diverse as Japan, Tajikistan, Jaipur, and New York. She brings over 20 years' experience, with a focus on work that has lasting impact.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
RICH LITTLEDALE
Rich is a coaching psychologist, business psychologist, and people expert, with a focus on leadership, talent, and career development.
This often means developing and delivering work that aims to support individuals from minoritised groups or communities. He has more than 20 years’ experience working with teams and leaders in a broad range of settings. This includes scale up CEOs who know that they need to grow and develop their leadership to keep up with their businesses, leaders of more mature organisations who are trying to lead with greater courage and purpose, or developing leaders who are just starting to understand and leverage the power of their background and experience.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
SARAH DEADMAN
Sarah is a Business Psychologist and qualified Executive Coach. Sarah has specialised over the last 15 years in Organisational Development,
Culture change, Leadership Development and Selection and Assessment. She is particularly interested in women’s career aspirations and has carried out two research projects, focusing on the blockers to their aspirations, and the societal impact this has. Sarah now brings her passion and expertise in self-development and leadership to Avenir in the facilitation of inclusion programmes and coaching.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
DR. CHERISE BERNARD
Dr. Cherise Bernard is an organisational scientist and certified professional coach who drives culture change for individuals, teams, and leaders across industries. With
a mission of "modernising today's workplace," she takes a personalised approach to building the core capabilities that let people and teams perform well together: empathy, resilience, awareness, and curiosity. Cherise has spent her career designing and scaling large-scale culture and leadership change programmes. At McCann Worldgroup, she led the development and execution of multi-year organisational strategies that improved workforce metrics and employee engagement. At Spotify, she helped scale global culture and belonging programmes, drove the expansion of employee communities, and designed the framework and curriculum for the organisation's inaugural leadership sponsorship programme. Most recently, she served as Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Invitae, a medical genetics company in California.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
SILKE IRMSCHER
Silke is a trainer, coach and facilitator with 15+ years’ experience of working with people at multinational companies in Asia that come from various national and
cultural backgrounds. She specialises in helping others to build skills of navigating in diverse environments, facilitating communication across cultural backgrounds and creating effective leadership in today´s fast changing global business. Silke is committed to working with companies to create psychologically safe work environments where people can perform with creativity, and where cooperation is shaped by trustful relationships and inspiring team spirit. Silke is fluent in German, English and Indonesian.
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ANALYST
ISSY HUNTER
Issy is a business psychologist with over a decade of experience consulting with organisations to get the most out of their people and is passionate about balancing
participant experience with rigorous science. Specialising in psychometric design, she has partnered with global organisations across the public and private sectors to lead on the design and delivery of expert-led business psychology solutions for recruitment and leadership development.
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PERSONAL ASSISTANT & OPERATIONS MANAGER
CAROLE SEARLE
Carole is the glue that holds everything together at Avenir. With a business background spanning over 20 years, Carole assists in the smooth
operations of client projects and is also Nadia’s Executive Assistant. She has a strong belief in Avenir’s mission to create more inclusive workplaces and works closely with clients to support this endeavour.
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COMMUNICATIONS & CONTENT MANAGER
JENNY LYNTON
Jenny is a Content Specialist, with extensive experience working in a wide range of industries. She utilises the skills gained from these areas
and over the years, in her work at Avenir as a communications and content manager. Jenny contributes to much of Avenir’s web and social content. She is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, more importantly, the social, moral and business case for DEI.
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Our Partners
Our expertise is focused on creating inclusive organisations. We understand that you may need more specific DEI-related services so we make it easy for our clients by partnering with other leading providers to deliver complete solutions to meet your priorities. These partners include:
Shape Talent partners with complex multinational organisations who are serious about gender equality. We help you make the sustainable change that leads to diverse and inclusive cultures where people and business can thrive.
Insight Experience is a global leadership development company that works with Fortune 1000 companies and are committed to talent development. We design, develop and deliver business and leadership simulations, pioneering the integration of strategic, financial, operational, and people leadership decisions in high-impact learning experiences.
We transform the way teams in large organisations connect through creative arts. Via this uniquely trusting environment, we deliver profoundly engaging learning experiences that unlock lasting change.
