Energising Team Facilitation | Esther Kwaku | Purpose-Driven Conversations

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Energising, Purposeful Facilitation

I lead with energy, wellbeing and truth, helping you unlock those sticky topics and uncomfortable conversations that often remain hidden beneath the surface.

By creating psychological safety, we can begin meaningful dialogues, even if they're just conversation starters for now. Beyond facilitation discussions, I design powerful conversations.

My facilitation offerings at-a-glance

Board & Leadership Development Journeys
Away Days, Team Building & Staff Retreats
Specific focus days e.g. Strategy Reviews, and Brainstorms

Safe Spaces, Tough Conversations and Psychological Safety
Change Management & Transformation
Residencies - working as part of your extended team on a breadth of facilitation needs across your directorates

National Trust

Esther’s style is very personable, engaging and authentic. She brings energy, authenticity and curiosity - asking very intuitive questions to the group.

We've absolutely come together more as a team - sharing and celebrating more which has shifted the team dynamic. I strongly believe that the team are tighter and the safety in the team has grown.

LEADERSHIP AND PURPOSE DEVELOPMENT

I guide leadership teams through transformative experiences that reconnect them with their core purpose and vision. These high-impact sessions help leaders align their actions with their values and create meaningful change within their organisations.

We'll approach this work together - a lot of you and some of me, in powerful collaboration.

Leadership and Purpose Development

Board and Leadership team retreats that build trust and strategic alignment
Purpose discovery workshops that uncover what truly matters
Vision alignment sessions that create shared direction
Values-based decision-making frameworks
Leadership energy and presence development

Leadership and Purpose Development

Leadership teams needing to realign around shared purpose during times of change
Executive groups seeking to revitalise their strategic vision and direction
Newly formed leadership teams wanting to establish strong foundations for collaboration
Leaders looking to reconnect with their authentic leadership style and personal purpose
Organisations undergoing transition who need their leadership to model cohesion and clarity

Leadership and Purpose Development

Working with me is a collaborative journey that energises while delivering meaningful results. I bring structure to the process, but the magic happens when we co-create solutions that truly fit your context and culture.

My aim is not just to facilitate a successful session, but to leave your team with renewed clarity, stronger connections, and practical tools to maintain momentum long after our work together concludes.

SAFE SPACES, COLLECTIVE ENERGY

I work with global nonprofits, social impact organisations, and mission-driven collectives to build cultures where healthy challenge becomes possible - where robust conversations feel productive and generative.

I bring 25+ years in the humanitarian and social impact sector - as a leader, coach, facilitator, and (when necessary) productive disrupter. I've navigated the sticky dynamics you're in: Holding space for complexity, managing across cultures and power differentials, creating conditions for truth-telling when stakes are high.

This is deeper level, systemic change: A long-term journey, lived experience from the sector, real examples from my global network, and enough presence for new patterns to actually take root.

MY APPROACH

Deep understanding - we start by unpacking what's really happening beneath the surface: what people aren't saying, where the friction lives, what patterns keep repeating
Co-created frameworks - We build together, drawing on what already works in your organisation and wider sector experience.
Leadership development - Coaching and facilitation for leaders who need to model the shift: Vulnerability without performance, transparency without chaos, holding space for difficult truths
Team immersion - Extended sessions over weeks and months where we practice new ways of being together.
Embedding practices - Building the conditions for this to stick - practices, rhythms, monitoring - until new patterns have taken root and teams can sustain them.

WHO IS IT FOR?

This is for you if you are a mission-driven organisation, UK or global nonprofit...

Needing safe spaces to process and navigate the ripple effects of crisis, conflict, or socio-political upheaval on your internal culture
Undergoing change e.g. restructuring, launching big projects, responding to funding shifts - where people need conditions to voice genuine fears and find collective solutions
Noticing trends and patterns e.g. Talent attrition, people saying they don't feel heard, receiving feedback that something's not working - but you can't quite name what or how to shift it
Working across cultures, regions or power dynamics where polite professionalism is blocking the honest dialogue you need for real collaboration
Who cares deeply about your mission but needs support with burnout, siloes and improves ways of working to unlock creativity and innovation

OUR WORK TOGETHER

We work on psychological safety, brave conversations, and creating the conditions for collective wellbeing. This is deep time work and transformation. And transformation takes time.

Expect a real partnership where I'm not delivering content at you but we're building together.

You may need to get a bit uncomfortable before things get easier.

Eventually, through this work, robust conversations start feeling productive instead of draining. Challenge becomes healthy rather than deflective and defensive. There's more safe, real.-talk The collective energy you've been sensing but can't quite access? It starts flowing.

Because I've worked in the sector, I understand enough of the undercurrents to read what's not being said, and the structures needed to hold teams through discomfort into new patterns.

TEAM EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE

I create energising spaces where teams can build stronger connections, align on shared goals, and develop the collaborative culture they need to thrive.

These sessions transform how teams work together daily.

Team Excellence and Culture

Team purpose and vision
Team away days that build genuine connection
Psychological Safety, safe spaces, tough conversations and trust
Culture transformation programmes that shift "how things get done"
Conflict navigation sessions that turn tensions into creative energy
Cross-functional collaboration design that breaks down silos

Team Excellence and Culture

I partner with your team to create energising experiences that transform how people collaborate. Together, we'll identify what's working well and where new possibilities exist, then design sessions that build genuine connection while exploring opportunities for growth.

Through carefully structured activities and meaningful conversations, we'll develop shared understanding and practical agreements that enhance how your team works together daily, creating lasting change that extends far beyond our facilitation sessions.

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