Gains was founded by Pauline Hughes. It evolves from her passion and experience in helping overwhelmed leaders in high pressure, fast paced organisations to have fulfilling careers, and make a bigger impact. And her belief that traditional business training is often out of sync with today’s realities; and not only unsustainable, but often ineffective.
Pauline has held a number of leadership roles and has experienced the stress, anxiety and burnout that many executives live with on a daily basis. Gains is her response to what she sees as the “ticking time bomb” that organisations face by failing to fix their culture and practices.
“I have been there, and I bring this first-hand experience to my clients. If people don’t feel valued, or are afraid to make mistakes; and if leaders are so frazzled that they aren’t able to think straight, let alone be innovative or inspire their teams, it’s a recipe for disaster. Scale this across a business, and it results in organisational failure. Our mission is to help you create an environment that breeds success, and bring renewed energy and purpose before it’s too late.”
“Pauline’s group coaching workshops are the best! Pauline has an amazing way of connecting to people and she is absolutely brilliant at it! Her sessions provide a very supportive and engaging space as well as fantastic practical skills our staff were able to put to good use straight away. I can absolutely recommend Pauline and I will definitely work with her again!”
Magda Lobodziec, HR Manager, Studio AKA
Credentials
Pauline is an International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach with a psychology degree and post grad training, a distinction level post graduate certificate in Executive and Personal Coaching and a certificate in Team Coaching, both from the highly regarded Barefoot Coaching and accredited by the University of Chester.
She is a qualified EQ-i 2.0 practitioner, and a certified practitioner of the Fearless Organisation Scan which assesses perceptions of psychological safety.
She is also a certified master coach with global coaching consultancy Mind Gym - providing facilitation training for coaches and working with groups and individuals to transform their performance. She designs and delivers coaching for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), Visible Leaders, BetterUp and Barefoot Coaching; and works with C-suite female leaders to help advance their careers as a founding UK Guide for the private network Chief.
Pauline has worked at board level in her previous career as a Director of Communications, and has first hand experience of the multiple challenges leadership teams face. She’s currently a trustee at The Reader - a UK charity that uses the power of literature and reading aloud to transform lives.
