Meet your ‘Inside Out’ facilitation team

Our intent is to create a shared, connected, embodied experience where leaders feel safe to explore their inner world and build healthy resilience that sustains them, their teams and their organisations through challenging and uncertain times.

We are all coaches with our own mindfulness practice. What we deliver is based on evidence from the fields of coaching, psychology and mindfulness, our personal experiences and what we have witnessed with our clients. 

Between us, we bring a wealth of experience working with all sizes of organisations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors across education (including basic, higher and further), health, finance, defence, construction, energy, technology, consultancy, and engineering. 

At the heart of our work in all of these sectors is an exploration of what it means to be human in leadership, doing purposeful work without losing or sacrificing ourselves and our relationships. We’re invested in finding and cultivating pathways to flourishing as humans as the gateway to organisational success. 

You can expect us to be friendly, welcoming, reflective, curious, challenging, practical and pragmatic.

Who are we?

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    Astrid Korin

    EXECUTIVE COACH AND CO-FOUNDER OF INSIDE OUT

    I've coached over 100 leaders and delivered more than 1,000 hours of coaching. In that time, my clients have taught me that things are rarely as they seem and that being curious, not triggered, is the foundation of great leadership.

    As a coach, I work with leaders who want to do deep work on themselves so that they can lead their organisations and their lives with clarity, courage and compassion.

    I'm passionate about the power of self-awareness in leadership and the importance of cultivating healthy resilience in today's volatile world.

    I'm a wife and a mum of two humans and a dog.

    I'm a recovering perfectionist with a strong inner critic - mindfulness has taught me to accept and love myself just the way I am (most days).

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    Maggie Farrar

    LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FACILITATOR, COACH, AND
    CO-FOUNDER OF INSIDE OUT

    I've worked all my life in the education sector and am constantly in awe of the strengths and passion that leaders bring to their leadership, particularly in today's complex and demanding world.

    My work focuses on the cultivation of leadership presence, and I've worked with over 3,000 leaders on how we can draw on our inner wisdom to cultivate more attentiveness, compassion, and joy in our work - both for our own benefit and for the benefit of those we serve.

    I've practiced mindfulness for many years and it has kept me grounded and balanced throughout my leadership journey in schools and at the National College for School Leadership.

    It has been on of the greatest privileges of my working life to help leaders experience greater presence by integrating mindfulness into my leadership development work and seeing the impact it has had on many leaders, their teams and their organisations.

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    Roger Bretherton

    CLINICAL AND COACHING PSYCHOLOGIST, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT AND RESEARCHER

    I started practising mindfulness at the age of 16. I read a magazine article about living life in the present moment. It has become the most important thing that I do. Even in the most mundane tasks we can be consciously present rather than lost in thought.

    Over the last three decades, I worked as a clinical psychologist in the NHS, an academic in university, and a leadership consultant working with c-suite clients.

    Most of my work centres around character strengths: the beautiful qualities of character like gratitude, wisdom, and compassion, that make life worth living. I have researched how mindfulness can help us rise to what is best in us in whatever we are facing.

    My clients have taught me that we all face similar issues, no matter we are or where we work. It's reassuring to know we are all human.