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Who we are

Our people, purpose and partners
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Diverse experiences, common purpose

Your partners in growth

Since 2001, we've been growing a team and community of learning designers, subject experts, coaches, culture consultants, facilitators and digital maestros. Together we're on a modern mission to enable your leaders and teams to achieve more.

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Working and learning together

Partnering with progressive organisations across all sectors, we work collaboratively to continuously tailor, evaluate and evolve our tools and training programmes — mapping them to the moments that matter most in modern teams.

Who we work with

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Growth-oriented organisations

Partnering with You Can Now has connected our leadership with bright minds from outside the business, and brought endless fresh thinking back into it.

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Our team and community

Nick Defty, Founder and Director
Nick Defty, Founder and Director

Nick established YCN in 2001, and has since collaborated widely on the design, development and delivery of our efforts — both directly into teams, and through the continual evolution of our cross-organisational programmes.

Abi Adamson, Associate Facilitator and DE&I advisor
Abi Adamson, Associate Facilitator and DE&I advisor

We've collaborated with Abi since 2021 on inclusively focussed tools and experiences; both across our platform and directly into our partners teams — from KFC and Spotlight, to Koto and Epic Games.

Owen Thomas, Writer & Development Researcher
Owen Thomas, Writer & Development Researcher

Since 2020 Owen has been steering editorial and research projects across all aspects of our programming, alongside the continual refinement of our digital resources and tools.

Raul Aparici, Associate Coach and Facilitator
Raul Aparici, Associate Coach and Facilitator

Raul draws on his experiences and accreditations as a coach, pyschotherapist and facilitator; coupled with an abundance of curiosity and a desire to help people make the most out of their current situation.

Sarah Naidoo-Banks, Associate Coach and Facilitator
Sarah Naidoo-Banks, Associate Coach and Facilitator

Sarah is an accredited business psychologist, coach and mediator; brilliantly blending the best of these disciplines in work with leaders and teams; and her regular contributions to our content and platform.

Louise Hedges, Associate Coach and Facilitator
Louise Hedges, Associate Coach and Facilitator

Louise brings significant experience coaching and leading teams towards personal, cultural and commercial growth — and a deep understanding of trust as a lever for change.

Katy Kent, Associate Coach and Facilitator
Katy Kent, Associate Coach and Facilitator

Katy worked for six years in our central team, before evolving and accrediting her expertise as a coach and facilitator, today leading on the delivery of many of our tailored team and leadership development programmes for our partners.

Kate Lloyd, Associate Coach and Facilitator
Kate Lloyd, Associate Coach and Facilitator

Kate came into her second chapter as a coach and facilitator from the world of advertising, where she spent almost two decades at two of London’s largest advertising agencies — AMV BBDO and Saatchi & Saatchi.

Toby Mildon, Associate Facilitator and DE&I advisor
Toby Mildon, Associate Facilitator and DE&I advisor

Toby is a man on a mission to help companies become more inclusive by positively re-engineering their processes and creatively addressing cultural barriers.

Matt Cook, Associate Facilitator and Culture Consultant
Matt Cook, Associate Facilitator and Culture Consultant

Matt's depth of expertise in culture and people has been key to our ongoing collaborations with growth-minded partners, whether global art fairs like Frieze, burgeoning branding studios like Koto or fintech maestros like Cutover.

Caroline Laycock, Associate Coach and Facilitator
Caroline Laycock, Associate Coach and Facilitator

Caroline combines deep experience as a change management consultant, and hard-earned perspectives from facilitating hundreds of development sessions, to support leaders and teams in optimising their effectiveness at work.

Dr. Sam Akbar, Clinical psychologist and Associate
Dr. Sam Akbar, Clinical psychologist and Associate

Drawing on her work as an NHS clinical psychologist and trauma specialist, and building on the ideas in her best-selling-book Stressilient, we've partnered with Sam to co-design and share her thinking on building resilience proctively

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Beyond Bouncing Back

For the Spring issue of You Can Now Magazine, Sam penned a thought provoking essay — arguing for a radical rethink on how we define resilience – and cultivate it in the workplace.