Meet Our Power Team
Mastering Your Power was founded by Salma Shah.
Together with a talented team of professional coaches and facilitators we offer powerful and profound ways of developing your potential.
We aspire to the words of Rumi…
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Salma Shah | Founder
Salma has travelled the globally delivering programs for major organisations including: Oracle, Lexmark, Ernst and Young (Kuwait), Pearsons, The Met Police, Oxfam, O2, Reuters, HP and Microsoft.
Salma launched her book ‘Diversity, inclusion and belonging in coaching’ in April 2022, a practical guide full of tools, case studies, interviews, examples and activities that allows coaches, leaders and line managers to create an inclusive culture of belonging and psychological safety to ensure that all employees flourish.
Prior to starting her coaching and training business she had gained over 15 years of leadership, transformation and commercial experience within the Information Technology and Digital industry. Working with the UK's largest FTSE100 clients to understand their strategic objectives, financial management and human relationship management challenges, determine appropriate solutions (both business and technology) and map those solutions to roadmaps for execution.
As a regular contributor to Psychologies Magazine, she has also been published in The Guardian, Independent and The Telegraph.
Founder, Author & Coach Salma Shah
Sukhy Bains | Coach
Sukhy developed her passion for people development when she was at British Telecom where she worked for 20 years.
She believes in the huge potential each individual has and is skilled at supporting people to access their own internal wisdom to create solutions, ideas and goals that are inspiring and effective for them, their teams and their organisations.
As a Coach Supervisor, Sukhy has mentored a multitude of professionals.
Rita Symons | Coach
Rita is a credible coach, mentor and leadership development specialist. She has lived experience of being a BAME Chief Officer.
She is on the NHS Faculty and also provided expert input co-leading the development of the Reciprocal Mentoring for Inclusion programmes.
Until 2021, Rita was the UK President of EMCC UK. She is passionate about supporting coaches and mentors at all stages of their development, being an accredited supervisor as well as a Senior Practitioner Coach.
Liz Hall | Coach
Liz is a leadership coach and mindfulness teacher and we are pleased to be collaborating with her on our MYP Masterclass Compassionate Coaching.
An award-winning journalist, she’s the editor of Coaching at Work magazine, and the author of publications including Mindful Coaching (Kogan Page), Coach your team (Penguin Business), and author/editor of Coaching in times of crisis and transformation (Kogan Page), and numerous chapters in other books.
As a co-founder of the award-winning Coaching through Covid and Beyond, offering pro-bono coaching to NHS workers impacted by the pandemic, she helped create a trail-blazing organizational culture shaped by compassion, relational mindfulness, psychological safety, agility and open-ness to emergence. Through Coaching at Work, Liz has launched initiatives including the pioneering ongoing Roundtable towards Race Equity in the Coaching Profession and Climate Coaching Action Day.
Yasmin Francis | Course Manager
Super talented, calm and organised Yasmin is the Mastering Your Power Course Manager. A very experienced training and event manager - she can turn her hand to absolutely anything.
Mary Doherty | Marketing
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.
What People Are Saying
“A fun and informative day, the exposure to how to create a compelling story is essential to knowing how presentations small and large can be made more effective.”
— Danny Ratcliffe, Commercial Lead, Boeing Defence UK Limited
“In my work as a DEI professional, I now have a better understanding and ability to listen out for all of the systems that shape all of our colleagues. The coaching has enables me to be more strategic in my ability to support them better. It means that I lead less from a place of lived experience but more from a listening lens, which has been more beneficial for my global clients. I am also more able to coach the leaders in my business as they grow their understanding of the importance of DEI.
— Winnie Annan-Forson, Vice President Diversity & Inclusion, Barclays
“While it covered some items we know we should be doing (but may not be), it stressed the importance and reasoning behind the processes of these and will result in a change of our internal working patterns. The majority of the session dealt with the psychology of selling to different personality groups and how to best engage with them. A real eye opener, even for the 'long in the tooth' pre sales and sales team members. I would not hesitate to recommend this course (though not to our competitors!), not just for pre sales and demonstrators, but also for the team in general.”
— Adrian Watts, Imaging Informatics Business Unit Manager - Agfa Healthcare
“Working with Salma helped me to clarify my message to my ideal client. She did this by taking me through a useful structured process which helped me to articulate who I am, what makes me different and what I offer. Salma expertly drew out the core values which are important to my brand. She also challenged me on what areas I need to focus on.”