OASIS HUMAN RELATIONS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Personal Development Coach

Jane Bytheway is a highly skilled personal development coach and facilitator, whose clients value her contribution in two core areas: as a One-to-One Developer and empowering transitioning teams in growing / changing organisations in order to improve individual, team and business performance. Her approach focuses on developing deeper levels of connection to and understanding of both self and other, leading to increased confidence and resilience in individuals, and increased collaboration and effectiveness in teams.

Job Titles:

• Coach, Consultant and Performance Psychology Practitioner

As a coach and consultant, Mo offers teams and individuals a reflective space to explore their emotional world, become more grounded and feel safe enough to have difficult conversations. Mo combines her passion for, and experience in equalities work with her coaching skills to offer support in working out where to begin or how to get ‘unstuck' in conversations about identity, power and relationships in the workplace. Mo's vision is to contribute to communities that foster mutuality, wholehearted communication, safety and creativity. Mo has a particular interest in workplace wellbeing, especially in the arts and performance industries and the third sector. The connection to Oasis began a number of years ago and has deepened through Mo's contributions to PeerWorks and as a participant on the Real Leaders and Coaching Programmes. Mo is a core contributor to the Oasis Diversity and Inclusion team. Mo has seventeen years' experience in the youth sector, supporting young people through traumatic experiences and leading teams in complex change processes. Her MSc in Childhood Studies provided a specific focus on ‘social, emotional and behavioural difficulties' in education and the impact of this label on young people. Mo has a background in singing and vocal performance. Her experiences and challenges as a young singer later led her to spend seven years training in a cutting-edge Performance Psychology approach that encompasses breath and body work, therapeutic voice work, psycho-education, trauma-informed practice and a relational, embodied approach to coaching. Mo's practice supports both performers and other professionals to move past performance anxiety, to self-advocate and prioritise their wellbeing.

Sarah has 20 years' experience in leading, managing and developing people and teams in the private sector, with a career that encompasses a wide range of experience from team and functional management and leadership, change and organisational development, and providing bespoke one-to-one development within her organisational setting. Sarah creates a space to enable individuals to consider and develop their strategic and operational thinking and practice. She has developed her skills and competence from a wealth of experience in all area of business management, which has informed her work as Operations Manager for an iconic online business, and as a key member of teams responsible for influencing, shaping and implementing collaborative organisational development. A critical focus in any one-to-one relationship is that the person's direction will always be driven by their needs whilst enabling alignment with the overall organisational direction. Sarah believes that the resources needed to address many, if not all, issues, challenges and opportunities are held within each of us. A person benefits from the time and space to think and to become clearer on what is at the heart of unlocking their potential to develop more conscious choices and to discover a way forward. Sarah is passionate about encouraging choice, and blends a variety of different tools, techniques and approaches to match a person's requirements, from expanding thinking and shaping understanding to making a tangible and valuable difference in how a person brings more of their whole self to work and life. Sarah is excellent at building relationships, putting clients at ease and enabling them to feel safe enough to share what is on their mind. She takes a facilitative approach, whilst being skilled at challenging people when appropriate to enable different viewing points. She has a degree in International Hospitality Management, and over the last ten years has focused her own learning on leader development and whole person approaches to coaching and mentoring.