Our story

Founded as the world began returning to work post-pandemic, Thrivall was created to build a better future – where leaders and teams can truly thrive in healthier, more human workplace cultures.

Informed by personal experience gained from a wide range of organisations from founder-led and family-owned SME companies to larger multi-national corporations, public sector bodies, charities and not-for-profits, everyone at Thrivall knows first-hand the pressures of running a business, the weight of leadership, and the impact this can have on individual wellbeing and team culture.

Decades of lived experience have shaped Thrivall’s programme design - practical, personal, and built to support the real-world challenges you face in growing and sustaining your business. It’s the support we all wish we’d had, and now we are proud to be offering it for you and your team.

Team Thrivall

Thrivall is proud to work in partnership with a wide range of talented and experienced people who share our vision to get everyone thriving at work and beyond, embodying our core principles. We believe in being: 
Passionate

Compassionate, considerate
and caring 

Proactive

Dynamic, optimistic,
forward-thinking

Pioneering

Courageous, innovative,
inspiring

Partnering

Collaborative, co-creating,
better together

Person-centred

Human-first, personalised, Ubuntu-inspired

Potential-focused

Strengths-based, developmental, solution-focused

Proven

Evidence-based, data driven, scientific

Purposeful

Long-term, big picture thinking,
a force for good, beyond profit

Persevering

Persistent, determined, compounding marginal gains

Playful

Curious, open to learning,
making time for laughter and joy

Perspective-seeking

Expanding awareness, appreciating different points of view, welcoming diversity

Prosperity generating

Creating value for all stakeholders, regenerative, sustainable profitability

Pacing ourselves

Mindful of capacity, resources and demands ahead, appreciating natural rhythms and cycles, valuing rest

Perpetually progressing

Continuously improving, growth mindset, always learning

Practising what we preach

Walking the walk, putting our own oxygen mask on first, self-aware

Meet the team

Mission Director & Co-founder, Anwen Cooper 

Anwen is a passionate, purpose-driven entrepreneur, strategic leader, professional speaker, and published author with over 25 years of experience working with more than 100 organisations across sectors. Known for helping values-led businesses grow their purpose and impact, she brings sharp insight, empathy, and storytelling to every stage she steps on - sparking fresh thinking in audiences around culture, leadership, and business as a force for good.

Her career journey has spanned senior leadership and charity Trustee roles, followed by launching a strategic marketing consultancy focused on impact-driven business growth. Now leading the mission for Thrivall, Anwen is focused on growing a team of performance psychologists and experts dedicated to supporting leaders and organisations to thrive at work and beyond.

Our Counsellor-Coaches

You get to choose who would be the best fit to support you.

All Counsellor-Coaches are carefully selected and we promise they are fully qualified, professionally affiliated, supervised, committed to CPD and experienced in coaching, counselling & business.

SYLVIA BRUCE
PETER ABRAHAMSEN
ANGELA SISLEY
NIC PENDREGAUST
CLAIR RAMSDEN

Expert Training Facilitators

You will get to access a wealth of knowledge and experience from our hand-picked network of Expert Training Facilitators.

CLAIRE JARVIS
Communications Expert & Mediator
EMMA PENNYCARD
Stress Management Expert
NICOLA WISE
Leadership Trainer
DAVID PERRIDGE
Mindfulness Specialist

Advisory Board

Thrivall is supported by the expertise of:

APRIL COMERFORD
Director of Corporate Development, Considerate Constructors Scheme
DR CHRISTIE MARSH
Organisational Psychologist, Positive Leadership Expert, Lecturer at University of Kent
REBECCA DREW
Managing Director, Vistage UK, Diversity Champion
SYLVIA BRUCE
Ex-Investment Director, HSBC, Counsellor-Coach, Mental Health Advocate
STUART MACE
Ex-Skanska Occupational Health Lead, MsC in Workplace Health, ISO 45003 Cert, NEBOSH & Wellbeing,
DR JIM AC EVERETT
Reader (Associate Professor) at University of Kent specialising in the moral psychology of artificial intelligence.
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