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).

  • Kate Haden

    PROGRAMME AND PARTNERSHIPS LEAD

    I bring extensive experience of building collaborative partnerships and co-designing complex programmes with leaders, organisations, governments and donors around the world.

    Much of my career has been spent creating the conditions for others to lead meaningful, locally owned and sustainable change - working across different cultures, perspectives and systems to turn shared ambitions into thoughtful, effective action.

    Mindfulness has been a bedrock of my own practice for many years, helping me navigate uncertainty and anxiety in both my professional and personal life. It remains very much an ongoing practice - particularly on the sleep-deprived days after being up most of the night with my young daughter. 

    Inside Out Leadership has strengthened my commitment to self-compassion and to nurturing the inner coach that helps me meet myself, and others, with greater awareness and care.

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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.

  • Sarah Dodsley

    LEADERSHIP COACH, PROFESSIONAL LEARNING EXPERT AND FACILITATOR

    I have been coaching for 14 years with much of my experience rooted in the education sector. I have supported many leaders to get beneath the surface and uncover the subconscious beliefs and ways of being that often get in the way of the growth they want.

    I particularly enjoy working in a systemic and embodied way to support leaders to feel and respond from a place of integrity. Mindfulness has been a part of my own practice for many years and I will often weave this powerful technique into my own work.

    I have a strong love of learning and I'm always keen to incorporate new ideas into my work and I often have a few books on the go that tend to be leadership development /coaching based. I have a keen interest in psychology and a wish to live the most wholehearted life I can.