Meet the team

Angelina Bennet

  • Rigorous
  • Warm
  • Curious

Angelina is known for her innovative approach to developing effective, productive leaders and her award-winning change leadership. While her work is rigorously backed by research, she engages with a combination of perceptive questioning and a warm, personable, non-judgemental style. As a music obsessive, when not at a gig, Angelina can be found playing guitar, practising yoga or tap dancing.

Angelina is a Chartered Psychologist who specialises in raising self-awareness to enable people to realise their potential and overcome barriers to effectiveness. She’s worked with a wide range of clients in both public and private sectors including NHS, Civil Service, European Space Agency, HSBC, Procter and Gamble, RBS, Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, Canopius, Mitie, Interserve, Met Office, Moorhouse Consulting, Alstom, Amway, Euronet, Adidas, Equinix AXA, The British Army, Imperial College, University of Westminster, Kenexa and Costain.

Angelina has a reputation for bringing leading-edge thinking to her work. Her experience with a broad range of methods means she can quickly tailor her approach to best suit the client’s needs. Clients and colleagues find her approachable and trustworthy, which helps them to build rapport quickly and feel safe sharing their experiences both individually and in groups. She’s a regular speaker at personality and coaching conferences world-wide and is continuously developing new ideas and expanding on existing knowledge of personality theory and its applications to coaching and team dynamics. She is the author of The Shadows of Type and a contributor to several other personality and coaching publications.

Focus

Qualifications

  • Individual and team coaching
  • Analysing team dynamics to improve working relationships
  • Shadow coaching for deeper self-awareness
  • Designing development programmes for leaders, managers and high-potential employees
  • In-depth psychometric profiling for selection, promotion and development
  • Applying research and statistical methods to evaluate interventions
  • Presenting and facilitating workshops internationally and virtually
  • Training others to develop others using personality frameworks
  • Designing questionnaires and psychometrics
  • Designing assessment and development exercises
  • Facilitating group processes
  • Writing books and articles about personality and other psychological concepts
  • Chartered Occupational Psychologist
  • Registered member British Psychological Society (BPS) and Health & Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
  • MSc Occupational Psychology
  • Ashridge accredited coach
  • Member of the British Psychological Society
  • Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
  • Professional Doctorate in Occupational Psychology
  • MSc in Applied Psychology
  • MSc in Experimental Methods in Psychology
  • BSc (Hons) in Psychology with Languages
  • Diploma in Hypnotherapy
  • Certificate in Psychosynthesis Counselling and Theory
  • Systemic Constellations 1
  • Group Process Facilitation
  • Certified in the Cognitive Process Profiler (for development of strategic thinking)
  • Diploma in Shadow Mastery and Advanced Shadow Mastery
  • Certified to use Barrett Values Tools for Organisational Transformation
  • Qualified to in a range of psychometrics including various personality tools, emotional intelligence and ability measures

Career Highlights

President of the British Association for Psychological Type. Engaged in a complete organisational re-design, making it globally visible and ensuring its financial sustainability. Presented with the International Type Association (APTi)’s Award for Leadership for her work.

Working with scientists at the European Space Agency on promotional and developmental assessment, and being invited to tour the ESA main campus

Seeing a clear developmental step change in high potential coaches from a civil engineering company during an 18-month development program

Designing and running programmes to help senior leaders develop their strategic thinking

Creating a Growth Mindset assessment and development programme for aspiring managers at Adidas

Training hundreds of people in the use of psychometrics through BPS approved courses

Coaching young entrepreneurs on the NEFF program

Winning an industry award for the design of a blended learning training program

Presenting to Personality Type conferences in the UK, USA, Australia, France and Germany

Being invited to share my ideas on personality at the UK Psychometrics Forum

Writing a five-star rated book about personality development and contributing to other books about coaching and psychometrics

Speaking on the BBC World Service and Radio 2 about personality type

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Angelina held a very successful workshop for us. She was professional and managed to connect with some of my more sceptical colleagues. She had interesting and innovative ways to get people involved. I very much recommend her
r Aileen King, Diabetes Researcher, Kings College London

Other team members

Richard Boston
  • Strategic
  • Inventive
  • Ally
Richard, LeaderSpace’s Managing Director, has a special interest in the systemic issues facing teams and organisations, and is passionate about helping leaders, their teams and their organisations fulfil their potential. His love of learning and wide experience ensures he always brings fresh insight to every project. To relax he runs up and down muddy hills.
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Bernard Cooke
  • Insightful
  • Provocative
  • Humour
Bernard is a Chartered Business Psychologist and accredited executive coach – and often works as a supervisor to other coaches. He has a dry, self-deprecating sense of humour and a unique way of challenging that provokes insight rather than defensiveness. His special interests include resilience and red wine.
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Sarah Mast
  • Generative
  • Wise
  • Energised
Sarah is an experienced organisational development consultant. She is famed for being quick to grasp exactly what clients need, is bags of fun and has boundless enthusiasm. She thrives in any lively or challenging environment.
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Shefali Sharma
  • Passionate
  • Warm
  • Supportive
Shefali is highly knowledgeable in psychology and emotional intelligence, and sees right to the core of issues. She is a Chartered Psychologist with a special interest in neuroscience. Shefali has an insatiable appetite for learning and is a warm, giving person. She has helped rear lions and tigers – and has the scars to prove it.
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Natasha Graham
  • Perceptive
  • Attentive
  • Organised
Natasha combines rigorous ethical standards with a highly perceptive interpersonal style. Her passion lies in uncovering authenticity in individuals, teams and organisations to enable true change and continuous growth. Her love of the countryside and her personal discipline in practicing ballet keeps her on her toes outside of work.
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Hanane Gamhiouen
  • Creative
  • Immersive
  • Fun
Hanane helps people and organisations to be their best selves in times of uncertainty and change. When she’s not working with clients she’s travelling the world immersing herself in indigenous cultures, experimenting with non-ordinary states of consciousness or in warm waters scuba diving.
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Anna Heywood
  • Incisive
  • Understanding
  • Relaxed
Anna blends a relaxed, approachable style with perceptive, incisive questioning rooted in a deep understanding of human nature. She finds her passion for life-long learning is met in equal measures by her work and her role as a parent.
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Claire Davey
  • Centred
  • Holistic
  • Enabling
Claire brings diversity of thought and experience, wonderful vitality and a great sense of humour. Her warmth and compassion help her clients quickly feel safe, enabling them to bring their whole selves to the work they’re doing together.
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Anna Crollick
  • Kind
  • Supportive
  • Astute
Anna is passionate about enabling people to find greater clarity of purpose, meaning and happiness at work. Her approach is rooted in psychological rigour and insight. She’s also fascinated by the impact visual images can have on coaching and often draws on art-based approaches to enable more profound awareness and impact.
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Sarah Perrott
  • Pragmatic
  • Energetic
  • Commercial
Sarah is energetic and positive, with a warm, engaging style and a focus on values. She helps create the energy and self-belief that enables senior leaders to grow and succeed. She loves walking along the River Thames and is passionate about yoga, aiming to maintain flexibility in body, mind and spirit!
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Ken Rowley
  • Friendly
  • Thoughtful
  • Questioning
Ken is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, who loves helping people gain greater meaning and happiness from their work. He has a passion for life-long learning and a drive to support others in their developmental journeys. He loves to use stories to bring concepts to life and to engage his audience.
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Jabiz Parvardin
  • Energising
  • Inclusive
  • Soul
Jab has a huge passion for helping people become the best they can be. He is an engaging natural communicator, skilled in getting teams excited about positive change. He’s a keen golfer and lover of sport. He also loves exploring different cultures and creative arts.
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