Welcome
Seasoned Innovator
As a ChangeMaker, you believe in the power of leadership to uplift others and create meaningful change for people, place, and planet.
You have courage and determination to bring transformative visions to life, but despite your best intentions, you're finding yourself struggling with the weight of unsustainable demands, feeling disconnected from your core values, and are getting caught in operational details rather than the meaningful change you set out to create.
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This isn't how change-making should feel.
Welcome Seasoned Innovator!
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You're an experienced professional leading change within established systems - whether that's transforming healthcare delivery, reshaping corporate culture, or pioneering new approaches to education. You know your field deeply and have the skills and vision to increase your impact with bold new ideas.
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But while you may be confident in the value of your professional expertise, you are feeling the weight of creating change within established systems that resist doing anything differently. Pushing against the system is challenging and while you've still got the drive and desire to keep doing the work, you are ready to find a new way that continues to build impact without compromising your wellbeing.
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​The world needs experienced professionals like you to evolve our struggling systems. The Embodied ChangeMaker programme helps you reconnect with your natural power to create change, working with your body's intelligence rather than against it.
Your passion to serve should not be the pathway to burn out!
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Leading transformation in healthcare, education, government departments or corporate environments?
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Navigating complex stakeholder relationships while trying to stay true to your values and vision?
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Seeking ways to leverage your deep experience without depleting yourself?
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Noticing that traditional leadership approaches aren't serving you as well as they once did?
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Ready to bring more of your authentic leadership style to your role?
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THE EMBODIED CHANGEMAKER PROGRAMME
As a Seasoned Innovator you know the value of rolling up your sleeves and putting in the hard work. But sometimes that graft can feel thankless. You deserve a new, more nurturing approach, grounded in scientifically backed concepts and top rated independently evaluated frameworks. ​
Certified High Performance Coaching is the highest rated coaching process in the industry consistently rated 9.7 out of 10 across more than 100,000 third party evaluated sessions. High Performance means succeeding beyond standard norms consistently over the long term. Certified High Performance Coaching is a programme designed to embed the “HP6”- the six habits that matter most in achieving longterm, sustainable, positive life changes, as identified in a 3 year research study of high performers worldwide conducted by the High Performance Institute.
CLARITY
Make decisions that feel deeply right and aligned with your vision
ENERGY
Work with your natural rhythms to sustain peak performance
COURAGE
Move forward from genuine strength, not forced willpower
PRODUCTIVITY
Achieve more while feeling energised and focused
INFLUENCE
Inspire change naturally through authentic presence
NECESSITY
Find the emotional drive that brings meaning to your work and purpose to your life
High Performance is balanced with my over 15 years of expertise working with the nervous system to regulate past traumas in individuals, teams and communities. To be Embodied is to be deeply connected to yourself so you can recognise symptoms of overwhelm - both yours and others - early enough to course correct and find more empowering ways forward.
"Darren has been my performance coach for a year, providing trusted expertise and insightful guidance. His coaching has demonstrably improved how I regulate my most stressful moments, improved my onstage presence and is helping me get the very best performance from my leadership team. I highly recommend him for senior leadership development."
JOCELYN ZANASI, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL MANAGER, UK & IRELAND, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, SALESFORCE.COM
WHAT DO I GET?
Through an integrated approach spanning therapy, coaching, and mentorship,
I'll guide you to become the absolute best version of yourself over 12 High Performance sessions totalling 20 hours of coaching over a time period that suits you. Together, we'll heal past wounds, rediscover your authentic power, and cultivate the self-leadership essential for making positive change in your life, your community and the world around you.
1 x 3 Hour
Goal Setting Session
1 x 2 Hour
Committment Session
An audio recording of the session for you to download and keep
10 x 90 Min
Certified High Performance Coaching Sessions
Incorporating Brainspotting if required
Full session notes provided within 24 hours of each session
Deeper dive worksheets for each High Performance Session
So you can continue working between sessions
WhatsApp and email support between
sessions
PROGRAMME OUTLINE
SESSION #1
GOAL SETTING
In this first session we’ll be setting the scene by
identifying goals for the road ahead,
discovering your level of focus, agency and
current habits that might be holding
you back.
We will define Success on your terms and
design a pathway to achieving it.
SESSION #2
CLARITY
In this session you’ll be identifying where you
are right now, getting clear about the values,
principles and practices that support your
journey to leadership.
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SESSION #3
ENERGY
You'll be discovering how to generate the power needed to keep moving and achieve your goals, without burning out.
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SESSION #4
COURAGE
In this session we'll be looking at roadblocks and learning ways to overcome resistance
to change.
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SESSION #5
PRODUCTIVITY
You’ll be exploring ways to get things done
more consistently and identifying the habits that stop you being as productive as you could be.
SESSION #6
INFLUENCE
In this session we’ll look at how to increase your
influence in your relationships and how to bring others with you as a leader.
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SESSION #7
PSYCHOLOGY MASTERY
In this session we’ll be developing a leadership
mindset by increasing your level of awareness
so you can live into your strengths, rather than
your limitations.
SESSION #8
PHYSIOLOGY MASTERY
In this session we’ll revisit Energy, but from a perspective of developing more stamina and
resilience to serve at a higher level.
SESSION #9
PRODUCTIVITY MASTERY
This session is all about getting even more
effective in your productivity and seeing big goals through to a successful conclusion.
SESSION #10
PERSUASION MASTERY
In this session you’ll focus on becoming more influential in sharing your message and learn a formula for maximum persuasion.
SESSION #11
PURPOSE
As the culmination of exploring the HP6 you will focus on “raising necessity” by identifying the underlying motivating factors that get you out of bed every day as an Embodied ChangeMaker.
SESSION #12
COMMITMENT
In our final session we’ll review the journey so
far and explore ways to help you stay on the
path once the programme is over.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
£4500
Paid in 2 or 3 instalments or in a lump sum for a £100 discount
If for any reason you are not finding the sessions beneficial you can cancel at any time and get a full refund of any sessions not yet taken.​
Add 6 Hours of Deep Dive sessions to address any resistance that might come up during the programme. This is an intensive process that can uncover deeper blocks that we can't address in the High Performance sessions, so it can be useful to have extra time to focus specifically on those issues and clear them outside the structured programme.
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Darren is an amazing and skilled practitioner who guided me on a journey of self-discovery and healing. It was totally unexpected and I have learnt a great deal from working with him. I've left our process with greater clarity, purpose and confidence.
AMANDA MITCHELL,
CHOIR LEADER
Working with Darren has enabled us to clarify our vision and take bold steps towards our goals. While sensitively guiding us towards clearer thinking, his positive energy and can-do attitude ensure a thoroughly worthwhile and enjoyable experience. I would not hesitate to recommend him.
KIRSTY WITHER, ARTIST AND GALLERY OWNER
Darren changed my life. I was in a state of transition personally and professionally, and there was a
pandemic going on! Not only did he help me work out what career move to make next, but by session 4, I was already being paid to do work I love!
ADAM BATES, FOUNDER PEOPLE AND PLANET CONVERSATIONS
ABOUT ME
If you're looking for someone who truly understands the ChangeMaker's journey you've come to the right place.
My path to becoming a High Performance Coach and Mentor for ChangeMakers has been anything but conventional. As a former opera singer who performed on international stages from the Royal Opera House to Teatro Communale di Bologna, I learned early on about the profound connection between body wisdom and peak performance. This understanding has shaped everything I do.
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Since 2014, I've been privileged to guide fellow ChangeMakers through their own transformational journeys, combining my expertise as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Certified High Performance Coach, and trauma specialist. But perhaps more importantly, I walk this path alongside you. Every year since 2014, I've recommitted to my own High Performance journey, experiencing fresh insights and deeper transformations each time I take this programme. This isn't just work for me - it's a way of being that continues to evolve and enrich my life.
Through The Human Hive, which I co-founded in 2015, I've worked with ChangeMakers worldwide, supporting them to create regenerative projects while maintaining their wellbeing. As someone who has designed and delivered transformative programmes from corporate boardrooms to refugee camps, I understand the unique challenges of leading change while staying true to yourself.
HOW WE'LL WORK TOGETHER
My approach is grounded in the belief that your body holds the wisdom you need to lead with impact while staying deeply well. Together, we'll create a safe, nurturing space where you can explore this wisdom, supported by my unique blend of therapeutic expertise, coaching mastery, and lived experience as a multi-passionate ChangeMaker.
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I believe that the best guides are those who never stop growing themselves.
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When you work with me, you're not just getting a coach - you're gaining a committed ally who understands the complexity of your journey and holds space for your full potential to emerge. Together, we'll discover how your body's wisdom can guide you to lead with greater impact, authenticity, and joy.
