Our Team
"The only person you meet in a group is yourself"
- Paul Barber
Clare is the Founder and Managing Partner of Conscious Consulting: Creating value for organizations through People, Culture, and Leadership. She works with Organizations who want to function more effectively, create, or transform culture, and develop leaders.
Prior to setting up Conscious Consulting, Clare created and led Human Capital for Mubadala Capital, a Global Investment and Asset Management firm. Clare worked as a member of the Leadership team and built a thriving Global organization with offices in 6 countries and an AUM of $22BN. The Mubadala Capital HR strategy and EVP was founded on Culture, which was fundamental to the success of the organization. Previously Clare led the creation of a centralized recruitment function for Mubadala and hired many of their Senior executives across the Group.
Clare’s Qualifications include a Masters in Leading and Facilitating Transformative Change: Organization Development (Metanoia Institute), and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Psychology. She is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), and a Member of the ICF (International Coaching Federation). Clare is a certified Facilitator of Transformation (Gita Bellin & Associates), a certified Systems Coach, an accredited Meditation teacher, and a Barrett Analytics Practitioner.
Clare Stafford Taylaur
Founder & Managing Partner
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Patrik is a Systemic Facilitator of Transformation, with over 10 years’ International experience as a Values-based Consultant and Executive Coach. Patrik is a pioneer of inner-leadership development and personal evolution: His approach begins with identifying values and purpose and leads to whole system alignment. Prior to consulting, Patrik spent 20 years in education as a teacher, facilitator and coach, specialising in curriculum design and development; emotional intelligence; behavioural change; personal and spiritual growth; mental health; and bereavement counselling and crisis intervention.
Patrik’s qualifications include: Facilitator of Transformation (Gita Bellin & Associates), Systemic Mapping and Constellations Facilitator, Barrett Analytics Practitioner, Clifton Strengths Finder Coach, Non-Violent Communication Facilitator, Adaptive Intelligence Coach, Contextual Family Counsellor, and Bereavement Counsellor. His publications include: ‘A World Book of Values’ (2014), several books on loss, grief and bereavement, and ‘Imaginal Presence’ (2021).
Patrick is from Belgium and is now living in the UK since 2015.
Patrik Somers
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Affiliate Partner
Santhosh is a public intellect on Leadership and Organisational Change. Since 1998, Santhosh has helped more than 300 clients across the world in their growth and transformation journey and he is a visiting faculty at The University of Chicago and Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Thinkers 50 identified him as a management thinker who influenced India in 2014 and he is a recipient of Lifetime Award from the Gestalt OSD center, USA. Santhosh is also the author of “Coaching the Art of Developing Leaders” the book published by Wiley. He is the founder of OD Alternatives, a boutique consulting firm that focuses on helping leaders to build purposeful and successful Organisations and he is also the Founder of Orglens, a tech firm that uses social psychology and network science to solve organisational challenges. Santhosh coaches senior leaders and celebrities and he is a columnist with several publications.
Santhosh is from India, lived in Bhutan, and is now living back home in India.
Santosh Babu
Affiliate Partner
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Shaikha is Senior Consultant in Conscious Consulting with significant experience as a C-suite HR and Operations leader. Shaikha has worked in multiple high profile interim and turnaround assignments and is able to adapt to different client contexts. Her diverse sector experience, coupled with breadth of capability across HR, Finance, and Operations enables Shaikha to understand the business and its priorities, and connect with the people.
Shaikha was previously an Executive Director in Mubadala and was the first CHRO for Mubadala Healthcare, the first CHRO for Solutions plus, where she built the HR function, lead diverse teams of professionals and trained successors. Previously she headed Talent Acquisition for Mubadala and created the People Services Centre as well as working as an HR Business Partner for the Finance and Legal teams in Mubadala. Previously she headed Talent Acquisition for Mubadala and created the People Services Centre as well as working as an HR Business Partner for the Finance and Legal teams in Mubadala.
Shaikha’s qualifications include a BSc in Mathematics (Al Ain University), an MBA from Majan College Oman / Bedford University UK. She completed the Talent Acquisition Executives program in Brussels, Belgium in 2015, and CEB Reimagine HR in London in 2016.
Shaikha AlHajri
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Affiliate Partner
Tiina-Maija is a leadership facilitator and coach bringing a unique blend of decades of corporate business experience and mindfulness into her work, with a purpose of instilling a spark of joy back into the lives of her clients. In her early career she spent 20+ years working for global industry leading hospitality organizations, holding leadership roles across Commercial, Strategy and Operational functions. Since then, she has also worked with private clients to support their personal journey of transformation, as well as leaders and their teams in business who seek greater understanding of their team dynamics and how they can work together more effectively and harmoniously. Tiina-Maija holds seemingly incompatible polarities; she is both a Business professional and an Energy healer, and inspires her Clients to be creative and pioneering, whilst maintaining practicality and financial prosperity.
In addition to holding a BSc in Foreign Trade and Hospitality Management, Tiina-Maija is a certified Facilitator of Transformation (Gita Bellin & Associates), Barrett Analytics Practitioner, and an ICF-certified Business, Resilience and NLP Coach. Tiina-Maija is also an accredited Master Practitioner in modalities of Mindfulness, Neuro-Linguistic-Programming, Hypnotherapy and TimeLineTherapy®, and a teacher and practitioner of various Healing modalities, Meditation and Yoga.
Tiina-Maija is from Finland, has lived in Switzerland, France and Egypt, and is based in the UAE since 2003.