Founder and Executive CEO: Claudia Welsh
Inspirational Leadership Speaker – Keynote & After Dinner
Public Speaker Mentor &Coach
Leadership Mentor & Coach
Life Coach
Claudia Welsh’s background is in healthcare at the senior management level with over 20 years of experience both in the public and independent health sectors in the UK and abroad. She also has a Masters of Science in Public Administration gained at the London South bank University which she used in her senior management roles. She also successfully pursued training in the Leadership Essentials provided by the Inspirational Development Group (IDG), at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. In addition to being an active Toastmasters International member, Claudia also attended the College of Public Speakers to sharpen her public speaking and leadership skills. She also attended Evolve Life Coaching College and The Coaching Academy for life coaching and DISC Psychometric test training. She is always exploring ways of keeping current and relevant to her clients.
Public Speaking, Leadership and Life-coaching were instrumental to her work and are incorporated in both her personal and professional life and are the services which she provides. Claudia believes that every speaker is a leader, as words have power! B’ Empowered A1 is the platform on which Claudia offers the opportunity to share her expertise in public speaking, leadership and life-coaching to the world.
Though the services provided are comprehensive, a focus is made on Emotional Intelligence (Unconscious Bias), the ability to be aware of, understand, use, control and express one’s emotions, as well as manage interpersonal relationships with good judgement, communication and empathy. Based on her experiences in varying professional and personal environment, Claudia has observed that poor communication, and poor leadership seemed to result from misunderstandings, ignorance and lack of confidence amongst other reasons. It became clearer to her that there is the need for leaders, speakers and persons seeking to develop themselves, to be able to communicate and lead efficiently and effectively, specifically by raising their emotional intelligence. Hence the services provided by B’ Empowered A1
The art of public speaking has been with Claudia since childhood when she would make recitals at school and church (where she continues to be active), to present. She further honed her craft of inspirational and motivational speaking, on various platforms in numerous countries across the world where she has either lived or visited. Claudia gets her inspiration from real life events, experiences and vicarious learning. She believes that one of her true callings is to inspire and motivated people to be the best they can be under any circumstance that they find themselves personally and professionally. Claudia believes that her gift of public speaking has been recognised by people whose lives she has affected in a positive way and they therefore are her testimonies.
Claudia is also radio presenter at two charitable radio stations namely;
In compliment to her being an inspirational and motivational speaker, as mentioned before, Claudia is a member of Toastmasters International speakers club in West London where she further hone my leadership and communicating skills. As well as motivational and inspirational speaking, in 2015/2016 and in 2018/2019 she was the president for her current West London public speaking club. She also held the role of Vice President Mentor on numerous occasions. To date, she continues to contribute voluntarily as a mentor and an active speaker in her public speakers’ club. Claudia participated in numerous public speaking and evaluating competitions and have won some at various levels. In so doing she keeps current, in touch and relatable thus having more to offer her clients.
In addition to entering speaking competitions, Claudia also keep herself current through the services she provides which includes monthly leadership workshops at the Barclays Bank in Hammersmith; being an active member in local networking groups such as a chapter of Business Networking International (BNI), at which she held the role of Visitors’ Host, and is currently the 2021/2022 president. She is also an active member of London based Your Business Community (YBC), as well as she does trainings around the areas of public speaking, leadership, coaching and mentoring. That way, she continues to grow personally and professionally.
Claudia enjoys reading widely on various subject; and blogging/writing, writing stories and blogging, walking and hiking, travelling and consultancy/project managing (participating in building a new radiology department within a new hospital).
Claudia continues to successfully mentor and coach clients, both individuals and groups using tools which includes DISC Psychometric Profiling, GROW Model and various Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), thus resulting in her having a good track record of them reaching their goals and beyond. For her it is of the highest importance that she establishes good rapport with all of my clients so their ambitions where mentoring and coaching is concerned, are realised. The dedication to her profession and her clients results in the B’ Empowered A1 catch phrases:
“B’ Empowered A1… Where your success is our motivation,” and
“B’ Empowered A1… Empowering the leader in you!!”
“B’ Empowered A1… Leadership Through Speaking.”
Under Claudia’s tutelage clients can expect to benefit from a wealth of knowledge and experience in public speaking and leadership, but more importantly positive results. She enjoys inspiring and motivating people to achieve their dreams, goals and passions in their lives. She believes that it is rewarding to see the end results of what good wholesome mentoring/coaching can deliver. Claudia has seen clients get the jobs they desire through career changes and promotions. She has seen clients make personal changes to enhance and improve their lives. And she has experienced clients creating new opportunities for themselves that they never thought they could. The results are rather gratifying for both clients and B’ Empowered A1. After all our motto is “Your (clients) success is our motivation!”
NB: Claudia too have a coach and a mentor.
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