Meet the team

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.

Jabiz Parvardin

Jab is an Executive Coach who focuses on creating authentic and empathetic connections to skilfully get to the root of issues and empower clients to create sustainable change. Using coaching as the foundation, he is focused on shifting culture in teams and organisations through leadership training and development. Jab draws on over 15 years of leadership and management experience, and is also a champion of diversity, equity and inclusivity.

He has worked with a wide range of clients including Farfetch, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, Nissan, Sport England and various UK sporting bodies, the NHS, Universities and Colleges in the UK, hospitality groups from the UK and Spain, and the charity Crisis.

Focus

Qualifications

  • Coaching individuals at any level
  • Training people to coach to an executive level
  • Designing and running leadership, culture and development programmes
  • Working with values and brave leadership
  • Positively managing individuals and teams
  • Speaking about leadership, coaching, culture and development
  • BA (Hons) in Environmental Management
  • Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring (ILM/EMCC)
  • Member of EMCC
  • NLP Practitioner

Career Highlights

Coaching CEOs of more than a dozen UK sporting bodies, under the Sport England umbrella

Designing and running a cutting-edge academy for use in hospitality organisations across the UK and Spain

Facilitating and tutoring the highly regarded Intensive Coaching Skills (ICS) programme with Management Futures

Developing the coaching skills of key senior leaders in the NHS

Working with Nissan to transition executive leaders into new roles across Europe, Asia and Australasia

Creating significant culture change for major UK sporting bodies through a programme of interview, audit, workshops and coaching

Coaching individuals working with homelessness to help create positive change

Being director of a charitable institute working with disadvantaged people of diverse backgrounds

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Jab is a very natural, calm and authentic coach who listens well and is serious about getting to the bottom of stuff.
Director, Global advertising firm
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Asks questions in a way I need to hear them… exactly what I needed to hear and how I needed to hear it… I’m already reaping the rewards.
CEO, British sporting governing body

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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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.
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