Montessori Could be the Answer to a Better Workplace

<p>As a former Director of Workplace Culture & HR, Sophie has over 18  years experience in Culture Change, HR, Organisational & Leadership Development, Learning & Development, and Business Transformation, spent mainly within the public sector – local government and social housing. She has won multiple prestigious HR awards such the Personnel Today Award for Excellence in Employee Engagement and is recognised as an authority in her field. She is also one of the  youngest people in her industry to make Chartered Fellow status with the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development).</p> <p>She is now the Founder and Chief Workplace Culture Specialist at  Ordinarily Different Ltd – an organisation she created in 2018 to “put the WOW into Work” - helping organisations grow through innovative and modern working practices, that shift cultures so that people feel engaged, purposeful, happy, healthy and performing at work. OD Ltd’s values are centred in freedom, curiosity, play - facets that Sophie embodies in all her work with her clients, as well as helping their workplaces adapt these elements into their culture.</p> <p>Sophie is also an executive, career and life coach at Sophiebryan.co.uk, where her world of work expertise fuses with her 10 years of corporate, action learning and individual coaching skills. She also qualified as a Yoga Teacher and Nutritionist in 2019, and she brings this holistic - whole human- approach to not only her coaching practice, but her corporate culture work too.</p> <p>As an international & Tedx  speaker, Sophie has featured in a 3 part series on BBC Radio 4, Mitchell  on Meetings, hosted by David Mitchell, as well as having case  studies of her work published in leadership and coaching books.</p> <p>To compliment her work and TED Talk (Could Montessori Be the Answer to a Better Workplace), Sophie has a real interest in parenting and education, having studied for a Diploma in Montessori (ages 3-6 years), and MMI Teaching Assistant’s Certificate (6-12 yrs). Sophie is due to start