Building deeper connections.

Our purpose is to leave lasting footprints, creating a pathway to sustainable change.

Our vision and values.

01

To have people skilled in offering the practical support that your talent from under-recognised groups need to move from striving to thriving.

Equity Matters.

02

To create a coaching culture where everyone who needs support feels psychological safe to ask without any fear of feeling judged or misunderstood.

Belonging Matters.

03

To attract, retain and develop a diverse pool of talent and see that talent grow. Building a future proof talent pipeline aligned with your organisation’s goals.

Representation Matters.

04

To actively manage differences by making inclusive behaviours habitual, changing mindsets and creating a culture where multiple perspectives enable creativity.

Inclusion Matters.

“An inclusive work environment can make you

2x as likely to meet and exceed financial targets;

6x as likely to be innovative and agile, and

8x as likely to achieve better business outcomes than a non-inclusive environment.”

(BITC ESG Factsheet, 2023)

We don’t believe that today’s organisation’s should have to choose between profit and leading with inclusion, compassion and kindness. That’s why Salma Shah founded Mastering Your Power.

Our clients are at the heart of everything we do, working collaboratively is part of our DNA. It is essential to us that we work in partnership with organisations committed to making a difference, but that also share our ethos.

The secret to MYP is that the wider lens of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging isn’t just an add on module, it’s the golden thread which runs all the way through all our programmes. It’s the very simple reason why our clients no longer have to choose between Coach skills training and D&I training. We are proud to say that MYP was one of the very first ICF accredited coach training providers to disrupt the coach training profession in this way, paving the way for a new vision of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in coaching.

So, that’s MYP, : compassionate disruptor, championing inclusion and belonging. Next generation leadership for future forward organisations.

Meet the team.

At MYP we collaborate with people whose values align to our own to ensure these are shared with the organisations and individuals we work with.

  • Salma Shah

    Salma Shah is the Founder of Mastering Your Power and has been coaching clients and delivering workshops for over twenty years. She is also the author of the ground breaking book, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Coaching.

    Favourite Film: The Graduate

    Favourite Book: Are you there god? It’s me Margaret?

  • Sukhy Bains

    As a coach supervisor and facilitator Sukhy has, over 20+ years, mentored a multitude of professionals. She has an innate ability to help people to access their own internal wisdom to create solutions.

    Favourite Film: The Notebook

    Favourite Book: The Invitation

  • Rita Symons

    Rita Symons is the former president of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). She has a natural ability to coach and facilitate which stems from her intense curiosity, and her very rich career in the NHS.

    Favourite Film:

    Favourite Book:

  • Mary Doherty

    Mary offers a unique blend of translating business strategy into effective digital and local marketing campaigns. She is highly skilled at identifying and creating content that appeals to the target audience and showcase what we do.

  • Sabina Bennett

    Sabina is very organised and has the innate skill to find and create effective structure and process out of even the most complex of scenarios. This makes her the perfect person to head up our MYP operations.

Meet our associate coaches and advisory group.

Community and connection are one of our core values and we are proud to work and collaborate with our partner and associate coaches. Many are also Alumni of Mastering Your Power Coach Training.

  • Shagufta Sharif

  • Emily Catlow

  • Judith Chen

  • Basirat Agboola

  • Jas Deogan

  • Sty White

  • Benish Mirza

  • Mike Taylor

  • Manisha Pathak

Why MYP?

At Mastering Your Power we are passionate about empowering people to support forward. Demonstrating behaviours that build positive connections, leave lasting footprints and create a pathway to sustainable change.

As a company and as individuals we hold true to core values that influence our work to support the organisations and people that we work with to make positive change happen.

Kindness matters, Compassion matters and having the courage to be bold

To have the humility to know that we haven’t walked in everyone else’s shoes and that we do not have all the answers and to continually strive to make long lasting connections that will take root, develop and establish behaviours that will be passed on to others.