After 30 years experience of working in and with the public services in the UK; and 25 years of mentoring and coaching, Shelley is a dynamic, powerful and insightful trainer, speaker and coach. Shelley is also a proficient course designer, with over 1o City and Guilds and ILM accredited courses.
Shelley’s training demystifies Diversity & Inclusion; and takes Equality Diversity & Inclusion out of the HR Department and into the C-Suite - linking it to maximising the potential of the workforce, exploring diverse markets and discovering diverse customer bases. If you want to have real conversations, relevant education and practical implementation get in touch.
Shelley speaks to engage in conversations for change - to bring a different perspective. She dynamically unpacks the questions that we ask ourselves in exploring our everyday lives. Shelley always fosters connection, understanding and reflection in rooms where many feel lost, disconnected and unknown.
Shelley’s coaching focuses on liberating women from the legacy stereotypes that they are born into, or acquire in their early years and regret in their latter years. Shelley’s coaching will give you room and space to unblock those limitations, cut the cords of fear and discover your own journey - beginning with the question “Why Not?"
"It takes a brave person to decide to talk about Diversity and Inclusion - but to do so within disciplined professions like the Military and Police takes a motivation beyond measure. These organisations have their own culture and hierarchy with no place for multiculturalism and no desire to understand it... yet she did it! Though small in stature Shelley captivates any audience with indisputable truths that will astound you and humble the highest rank to the point where they want to know more. Shelley is brilliant & humble, she has been one of Britain's best kept secrets... but not for much longer!"
Mark Abraham OBE - Brigadier; Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer UK Home Command
"Shelley Collins has been an inspiration to us at Victory Gap Year: Leadership Academy. She was instrumental in helping us launch the Gap Year in 2000 with considerable donations. She has taught our students important life skills and has an amazing ability to get to the core of issues and face them head on. Not only has she presented brilliant courses to our students on leadership, but she has help us align our systems and structures to be more effective and efficient as an institution. We are forever grateful to her for her selfless service and personal investment into our progam.
Thank you Shelley, we appreciate you! Wishing you all the best".
André von Mollendorff - Dean and Director, Victory Gap Year, South Africa
"Shelley Collins is a woman whose thoughts, words and actions come from a place of honesty, love, faith and a desire to make changes for the betterment of ALL irrespective of race, culture, gender or religious belief. She has an amazing gift of seeing the talent and good in all which inspires and cultivates a culture of improvement and unity. Her 28 year track record of work including the Police, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, The British Army, Royal Air Force, The Royal Navy, the NHS and with entrepreneurs is a testament to this. In a world with fractioned unity, Shelley maintains stability, professionalism and a desire to make a true difference to all she meets. "