Meet our team
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Joy Burnford
Founder & CEO
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Edward Haigh
Strategy Director
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Helen Beedham
Head of Programmes
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Alex Patient
Senior Coach
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Katie Seaman
Senior Coach, Resilience & Wellbeing Specialist
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Fahrah Gulamhusein
Purpose Coach & Inclusion Specialist
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Robert Baker
Allyship Specialist
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Helena Clayton
Leadership Development Coach
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Audrey Zander
Senior Coach
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Julie Dennis
Menopause Specialist
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Claire Dagwell
Business Manager
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Alexia Padgham
PA to Joy Burnford
Our wider team of coaches and consultants
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Belinda Riley
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Daniele Fiandaca
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Kate Davies
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Emma Menzies
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Katherine Ray
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Olivia Bath
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Franco Trapanese
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Joanna Gaudoin
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Tímea Kristóf
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Charmian Tardieu
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Chris Williams
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Arabella Ashfield
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Stephanie Aitken
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Kathryn Wakefield
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Our values
Our values guide everything we do at Encompass Equality – from the way we work as a team to how we support our members and clients to achieve their goals.
Impact - We are driven to make positive change; we focus on delivering data-led, practical and disruptive solutions that result in a measurable impact.
Curious - We are always learning; we explore new ideas, work collaboratively with others and we value diversity and innovation.
Human-centric - We put people first; we embrace equity, we centre on relationships and everything we do is personalised to enable individuals to be resilient, thrive and succeed.
Passionate - We are passionate about what we do; we constantly strive to make a difference and we’re enjoyable and fun to work with.
Flexible - We take a flexible approach; we work flexibly and provide bespoke solutions that are always tailored to our clients’ needs.