"We do not see the world as it is, we see it as we are"
The Talmud
About Sofia
About Sofia and Turn Up the Courage
Sofia is the woman behind Turn Up the courage. Read more about Turn Up the Courage’s vision for a sustainable future and our personal mission related to that, by clicking here.
About Sofia
Sofia has a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London. She started her career at British Airways, where she moved from systems analysis and project management to learning and facilitation. She then left BA to move more fully into people and organisational development, and, after a number of small roles across various industries, has run a business as a coach, facilitator and change agent since 200. She has a balance of analytical and intuitive skills and experience, straddling engineering and business analysis, to personal and team development.
Sofia is a change agent and has gone through her own journey towards the work that reflects her core identity. She is herself living proof that a big change in career is not only possible but worthwhile! She has created a life where her work is fully aligned with her core purpose.
Working with individuals, she delights in showing people how to bring seemingly disparate aspects of their career into alignment, each aspect contributing gems towards their core offering. She has worked with directors, parents, teenagers and executives. In all cases she will find commonality in the different stages in their journey and enable them to put their finger on the connecting threads. A light will go on as they see, often for the first time, the bigger picture of their life path.
In organisations and networks, Sofia’s strength is in building a collective vision and tapping into the collective intelligence of the team or network to turn that vision into reality. She has pioneered techniques to help teams to do so. See the above diagram for the link between Sofia’s early desire for a supportive community that works, to her current core offering: – to create organisations and communities that are powerful and supportive places for people to move into flow and achieve all they could dream of. Each part of her journey has contributed to achieving her deepest longing and her business offering is based on this.
Current Organisational Home:
Turn Up the Courage is founding partner of Melanin Partnership, a Brixton-based think-do tank operating as a social enterprise, with the core aim of creating innovative and practical solutions for local communities. Melanin actively links these solutions to related macro-level activities and thereby facilitates relevant access to opportunities for those who otherwise may be excluded.
NEWS! Since January 2008 Melanin have moved from our small office space into a larger open unit in Piano House, Brixton. Please see our new informational page at this location.
Collaborations:
>Member of Contented, a small networked-based consultancy focused on enterprise, education and community innovation across the UK.
>An active knowledge steward with Pioneers of Change, focused on the practice of minimal social interventions that hone the collective intelligence of change agency networks towards their own home-grown solutions.
Sofia has drawn courage along the way from networks of support, from mentors and coaches and from her family and friends.
Association and Membership:
>member of the International Coach Federation
>member of the International Association of Facilitation
