Kelly Wakeman

Start Inspiring

Enhancing the employee experience and effective scaling up support
Individual and Executive level coaching
Business or team purpose, mission and values alignment

Kelly Wakeman is the founder of Start Inspiring, a leadership and culture consulting firm dedicated to helping high-growth businesses succeed, with a mission to make work work for everyone - balancing People and Profit!

Start Inspiring specialises in supporting high-growth, predominantly PE-backed scale-ups through transformative leadership and culture strategies.  As a PCC-qualified coach with executive experience across Tech, Retail, Hospitality, Manufacturing, and Construction, and over three years of scaling her own start-up, Kelly is highly regarded among investors, founders, CEO’s and HR leaders.

Her firm is frequently entrusted to guide clients toward meaningful transformation, creating the foundations for sustainable success. Starting with a fit for future assessment, we can help you to identify the biggest areas of impact and either stop there or provide end-to-end HR support or high-impact, ad-hoc people projects and leadership development; together we'll help you to drive long-term success for your organisation and people.

Emma and the team at Team Wellness® help unlock energy and full potential, creating healthy, happy individuals, teams and organisations. They work from a place of knowing, as qualified wellbeing experts, they bring a human-centric, authentic, caring approach to high performance. Creating the trust and safety in a team to unlock curiosity, confidence and constructive exploration of a team's strengths and development opportunities. The team can't unlearn the guidance given to them from Team Wellness, they simply have new habits and as a result are healthier, happier and more productive in all aspects of their lives” – Kelly Wakeman, Start Inspiring