Our Team
Fatema is a qualified primary school teacher with over 14 years of experience in Education. As a psychology graduate, she is fascinated by human interaction and noticing patterns in behaviour. She holds a Masters in Child Development and Learning and works with faith schools to develop policies, procedures and curricular to support Values based Education. This enables learners to develop self-awareness, interpersonal skills and highlights the importance of effective communication. Fatema has completed a Leadership in Education qualification and has taken on a number of leadership roles within Education.
Fatema’s work with adults involves supporting and empowering educators both nationally and globally to ensure best outcomes for children. In addition to this, she has facilitated a number of online interactive Emotional Support Skills Workshops to a global audience promoting skills such as: empathy, listening to understand, effective questioning and stress management. She is a trained mentor in using the Egan Skilled Helper Model and she works on the basis of empowering people to support and manage their own problems effectively.
Fatema Rahemani
Mariam is a qualified Charted Manager with the Chartered Management Institute. This has enabled her to build on her Knowledge, Skills and behaviours as a Senior leader. She has completed her Post-graduate Diploma in Faith Based Leadership with the University of Birmingham and is currently writing her research on the impact of online Leadership Development program on participants based in different parts of the world.
She is a MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) Facilitator. As a busy mother of four, she is passionate about using her knowledge of personality types to nurture her relationships. In her leadership capacity, Mariam has used personality types to train leaders in valuing difference. She has facilitated a number of Leadership Development Programmes and strongly believes that values and skills require a space for implementation.
Mariam is a trained and experienced Mediator with the College of Mediation on Alternative Dispute Resolution. As a trained mentor using the Egan Skilled Helper Model, she is committed to empowering others through coaching in an environment that enables people to arrive at their own solutions and plans. Mariam is also a facilitator for the Adult as well as the Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) programmes and is committed to raising awareness of how best to support people’s emotional well-being.
Mariam Hassam
Maria Pattinson
Maria is an Ethical Leadership specialist. She has thirty years of experience coaching individuals and teams to become the best versions of themselves. Maria brings expertise in mental health and wellbeing and has delivered projects to improve mental health outcomes for communities in the UK and internationally. Maria has a first class Master’s degree in Ethical Leadership from Kings College London. Her research was in evaluating the impact of leadership development programs in Muslim communities across three global regions. Maria’s voluntary work is in Tanzania where she trains local people to deliver mental health awareness courses in community contexts. Maria currently coaches a team of African volunteers across three countries in the East Africa region.
Maria is also a Communication Specialist. For more than twenty years, she worked with top leaders in the NHS flagship programs run by The Kings Fund on developing their capacity to communicate authentically and effectively in public. Her coaching and facilitation draws upon an equally long career as a theatre director and producer of new plays in some of England’s leading theatre organisations, including Chichester Festival Theatre, Glyndebourne and Hampstead Theatre. Maria is trained in Systemic Constellations Coaching and Family Constellations as developed by Bert Hellinger through the Centre For Systemic Constellations and The Whole Partnership.
Maria has written about the intersection of leadership, the arts and transformation in the online coaching magazine Coaching Perspectives.
Dr Sarfraz Jeraj
Dr Sarfraz Jeraj works professionally as a chartered clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience in adult mental health services in the NHS. He is also a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Psychology and Deputy Course Director of the Post Graduate Diploma in Psychological Interventions and CBT at University of Surrey.
Sarfraz is an experienced facilitator of a wide range of training in areas including including communications, leadership, executive coaching, mentoring, and various aspects of wellbeing. He is an accredited MBTI practitioner and delivers programmes that are accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management.
His commitment to ethical practice, enthusiasm in his areas of training and skills in engaging participants with humour, sensitivity and clarity have been refined over 10 years of facilitating training in the voluntary, public and corporate sectors.
Drawing on multiple roles as a clinician, an academic, various professional and community leadership positions, a mentor, coach and mediator, Sarfraz brings practical experiences to support the theory in training. He is driven by a commitment to developing people to unlocking their potential with care and skill.
Jo Evans
Jo Evans is a qualified secondary school teacher with over 20 years of experience in education. She has taught drama to primary and secondary school students and is passionate about her subject. She strongly believes that drama teaches valuable life skills such as confidence, teamwork, self-esteem and creativity. Once developed in a drama studio, these skills help students blossom and develop confidence in many other environments. She has delivered workshops to other educators, introducing drama into classroom lessons, as well as refreshing key vocal and presentation skills.
Jo has worked closely with theatre companies, writing a variety of resources and materials to use in education settings, ensuring topics and themes are accessible and engaging for young people. She is a qualified Arts Award Explore provider, offering opportunities for students to interact with new art forms and express themselves artistically. Jo feels that drama is a real enabler for adults and students alike. It allows self-expression without judgement, it provides a safe space for confidence to flourish and it offers support and belonging through cooperation.
Ridhae Sheikh
Ridhae recently graduated with Distinction from a master’s in Psychology of Mental Health where her dissertation resulted in 680 participants and discussed the relationship between mental health, wellbeing and religiosity. She also has 5 years of mentoring experience which fuels her passion of make connections with those around her.
Working predominantly with children and young adults her experience in mentoring and volunteer teaching has developed her communication and interpersonal skills, further motivating her to continue inspiring growth in others.
Ridhae has also facilitated several interactive workshops “Let’s Talk; Wellbeing” over the course of 2020. Aimed at young people aged 11-13 years, sessions discuss the effects of stress on mental health and focus on highlighting methods of improving resilience.
Her current venture is as @thought_therapy on Instagram where she reflects on mental health and psychology related topics to an audience of over 2000 followers. Ridhae, through sharing her thoughts and reflections, hopes to continue motivating and inspiring others to live life with a more positive mindset.
Dr Akber Mohamedali
Dr Akber is a family physician running his practice with a team looking after 12,500 patients in Southeast London. He trains and teaches medical students, doctors and nurses. He has held various leadership positions in the National Health service at a local, regional and national level.
He was the chair of Lewisham Professional Executive Committee managing a health budget of £300 million for 250k of the local population.
For the past twenty years he has helped to develop and facilitate a range of Leadership and personal development programmes internationally, which has nearly two thousand alumni. He is also a personal coach and a mentor.
He was born in Kenya and has lived in the UK for over fifty years and has six lovely grandchildren.