Our next programme:
Our next BRILLIANT Women Acclerated Leadership programme 17th January 2024. There's still time to register and also access our partially funded places. Suitable for business owners, senior leaders, executives and board members Click here for more information or please email jackie@be-brilliant.co.uk
our purpose
Our purpose is to level the playing field, provide creative solutions to identify and address real issues that are holding people back today. Accelerating talented individuals to unlock potential and progress. Allowing businesses to retain, develop and attract talented people, so
EVERYONE can be BRILLIANT
our vision
BE BRILLIANT believes that everyone and every organisation has the power to succeed.
Our vision for tomorrow is to enable brighter futures for individuals and organisations to achieve their definition of personal and collective success.
We have taken what we have learnt and the success of our bespoke programmes and experiences to date has led us to develop an experience for EVERYONE. We realised that it's not just women or minority groups that are being held back due to cultural, class, age or being a parent. Many things hold people back and we work to create a level playing field for EVERYONE with the work that we do.
BE BRILLIANT BELIEVES THAT EVERYONE AND EVERY ORGANISATION HAS THE POWER TO SUCCEED
how we do it - Our philosophy
The BE BRILLIANT approach is designed to help you make decisions and use strategies that play to your values, strengths, passions and skills.
Our experience working with people over the years, affirms that when you focus your business and career decisions on these unique factors, fulfilment and success follow.
It’s a simple premise, yet one that’s often disregarded during our education and negated by our employers. Oddly, convention focuses training and coaching on the areas where we lack natural ability or interest. We spend hours trying to fix our weaknesses or evolve “all-rounder” abilities, and little time developing our strengths in the areas we are naturally best at, most likely to build mastery in, and that we enjoy the most.
This is damage limitation at best and it’s unrewarding. If you’re not a natural physicist or playwright, focused attention might mean you attain an average aptitude eventually but you’re never going to be Werner Heisenberg or Arthur Miller.
Conversely, when you put your true skills, abilities, and interests to work you are much more likely to BE BRILLIANT in your chosen business or career and find lasting satisfaction. This perspective forms the basis of our work.
what is the problem we're addressing?
To perform at their very best and achieve results, athletes have clear goals, build strategies, train, review performance, learn and adapt. They benefit from continuous professional coaches who develop relationships built on trust and provide objective support.
The problem is, we do not support Leaders, Business Owners, HOD or Executives with this same quality of support and stretch. Too often, if at all, the focus is on technical skills and not behavioural, there's a real disconnect understanding the importance of combining commerciality and compassion.
As a result we have lonely, disconnected, overwhelmed, overlooked, disorganised, reactive leaders who are not performing at the top of their game or taking a long term strategic business view.
The impact, businesses are not realising their full potential or that of their people, struggling to develop, there’s no clear pathways to progress, good people are leaving and it’s hard to attract new talent. There is limited growth potential and they end up pursuing external talent at a greater cost to the business, both financially and motivationally.
a be brilliant friendship
BE BRILLIANT came from the friendship and shared
purpose of Jackie Moody-McNamara and Karen Turton, thrown together on a project that has led to the creation of something capable of powering personal and organisational change.
BE BRILLIANT believes mindful leadership comes from a beautiful balance of compassion and commerciality. We
are operators and believe all programmes must deliver a
return on investment - we just believe in doing it differently!
our BRAND dna
As the BE BRILLIANT brand ambassadors, we 'live and breathe' the following values and beliefs everyday in the work that we do with our clients; which makes up our brand DNA.
Creating better futures -
Start with the end in mind
Courageous conversations - curious and no-nonsense
Play to win - be brave, be bold,
be strategic
We're in this together - unlocking potential, achieve success
Empowering you to own it
(whatever 'It' is)
.png)
Cultivating discovery - every day's a school day
To learn more about our brand DNA and what makes us so unique and BRILLIANT as a business to work with, please click on the link below.
As a growth facilitator, business coach and strategic thinking partner, I specialise in working with women leaders who are looking to excel their careers.
Hospitality has always played an important part in my life - as a child I was raised in a pub.
Today with over 25 years experience at board level, I'm proud to have worked with a great range of private PE, REIT and FTSE 100 businesses.
Having experienced a successful career progression journey myself and the challenges that it brought, you could say…I’ve been there, done that and got the t-shirt!
In 2018, I set up 'Turn the Key,' a coaching and mentoring practice, where I found many highly competent, but unfulfilled women clients. I identified a gap that a high proportion of females were not progressing like their male counterparts so I set up 'BRILLIANT Women'.
Recognising that women don't self-promote, I've developed a series of initiatives and programmes as a unique strategic pathway that has helped inspire hundreds of women to be ambitious, courageous and authentic.
Meet Jackie, our founder
how we can help you
All of the work that we do is about taking our clients on a journey and no matter where you currently are on that pathway, we will work with you to help create momentum and unlock your true potential. Ultimately, we want to help unlock your strengths, become more self-aware, self confident, adaptable and resilient. Here are some of our key services.
recommendations of our work
Jackie and I have known each other for many years and more recently worked together as fellow Non Executive Directors on the Board of the British Institute of Innkeeping Awarding Body. Jackie's key skill lay in thinking strategically, grasping the importance of a clear vision, robust strategy and alignment of operational plans. Jackie was always very supportive and constructively challenging of the Board and Executive Team, in command of the detail and performance orientated. She is a people centered professional, and her energy, passion and practical experience is well respected in the hospitality sector and beyond. Jackie adds real value through her capacity to be ambitious, facilitate growth and act objectively, whether as an Independent Director or Performance Coach, she comes highly recommended.
- Chris Welham, CEO and NED
Jackie was instrumental in supporting one of our valued employees through a significant period of change, carefully combining her coaching and commercial acumen. This had a really positive impact on our employee and therefore our business, resulting in not only a strong financial performance, but retention and motivation.
- Jackie Burn, HR Director, Punch Taverns
This group has enabled me to explore my values, my future and re-assess what’s actually important to me. It’s been a year of self-discovery for which I will be forever grateful. Thank you so much for the invite and facilitating. I would recommend this experience to other women who want to discover why they are brilliant!!!
- Alison Martinez, Operations Manager,
Hawthorn/Admiral Taverns
get in touch today
Play to Win
To meet the needs of our clients, we primarily work face to face. However, we're now using Zoom/Microsoft Teams more. Much to our surprise and our clients, it has been surprisingly effective and as a result we're now a convert.
To learn more about our work, how we add value and help clients to unlock their potential or that of their teams please get in touch today. We would love to hear from you.
