About
I’m Natalie, the founder of Quiet Space.
I’m a leadership, neurodiversity and career development coach, coach trainer and higher education consultant. I hold a BA (Hons) from the University of York and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, alongside a PGCert in Career Development and Coaching Studies, a Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring, and a Certificate in Psychological Coaching. I’m also a Registered Career Development Professional with the Career Development Institute, an accredited Facet5 and Teamscape practitioner, and a certified Fearless Organization Scan practitioner, working as an associate with Caerus Change. In my spare time I climb, lift weights, and dabble in yoga.
Understanding, compassion, respect and integrity are at the core of my coaching ethos, and my work focuses on supporting my clients to not only perform optimally at work but also lead happier and more fulfilling lives. My approach is simultaneously empathetic, compassionate and challenging. In our sessions you’ll have the space to talk and the time you need to think. I will listen. And then I’ll help you to bring structure and focus to the issues you want to deal with, identify strategies for dealing with them, and work out a plan for action — and support you in achieving that plan.
My coaching practice focuses on the following:
- Neurodiversity and executive function coaching, including coaching for newly-diagnosed employees, collaborative coaching with employees and their managers as part of a performance management track, and support for neurodivergent leaders navigating difficulties in post such as challenges with team dynamics and complex organisational change.
- Career development and performance coaching for employees across a variety of contexts, including staff on a performance management programme, staff managing career transitions (e.g. those returning to work after maternity leave or career breaks/sabbaticals, or those navigating pre-retirement planning), and staff experiencing burnout.
- Leadership and executive coaching, including development coaching for emergent leaders, executive coaching for senior leaders seeking appointment to top executive teams, and executive and strategy coaching at C-suite level. I have a special interest in equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging, and this area of coaching has, accordingly, included coaching for flagship university leadership programs aimed at supporting staff facing barriers to progression to top leadership positions, e.g. disabled, women, global majority, and LGBTQIA+ staff.
As a qualified workplace mediator and experienced consultant and facilitator, I also specialise in group/team coaching engagements as well as workshops that support groups and teams to build their skills in communication and dialogue, conflict management and resolution, and emotional intelligence. I work with organisations to deliver thoughtfully-designed, sensitively-facilitated interventions that support teams to hold space for multiple perspectives, find common ground, build psychological safety and elevate both individual and collective performance.
Alongside my coaching work, my consultancy work (based on more than 20 years of experience within the UK higher education sector) focuses on supporting universities to deliver realistic and sustainable, yet transformational and people-focused organisational change. Recent consultancy projects have included operating model review and redesign, process improvement, skills frameworks and career progression pathways, quality and compliance frameworks, building psychological safety, and culture change.
Get in touch now so we can talk about how I can help you.
Natalie Snodgrass RCDP MAC CertPsychCoach
BA (Hons) York, MPhil Cantab
Find me on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/nataliesnodgrass and Instagram at www.instagram.com/quietspacecoaching
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao Tzu