Viv Bowra

We help scientific and tech organisations who want their teams to deliver great work and lead confidently. We support your people with the leadership mindset, communication skills and confidence to move from individuals who are “winging it” to becoming the kind of managers people are inspired by and want to follow.

We help scientific and tech organisations who want their teams to deliver great work and lead confidently. We support your people with the leadership mindset, communication skills and confidence to move from individuals who are “winging it” to becoming the kind of managers people are inspired by and want to follow.

We believe the key to success is cultivating high performance across your organisation with the right people, who have the right mindset and the right skills within the right culture. These are the four pillars that underpin Viv Bowra Consulting’s approach to Leadership Development:

1. Mindset: We specialise in helping teams and individuals’ step into what might hold them back so that they can lead purposefully with clarity and conviction – maximising productivity
2. Communication: Leaders who communicate effectively can influence and partner with stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes
3. Culture and Change: Innovation is at the heart of all successful organisations, and the right leaders create the right culture to empower and inspire their people to perform at their best.
4. People Management: We help leaders to build their teams where individuals thrive, so people stay and do their best work in service of delivery.

We partner with you to design and deliver impactful bespoke solutions that are engaging, fun and drive results.

To help empower your people to navigate change seamlessly, we draw on our experience gained from our 20+ years’ experience in HR from start-ups to established blue-chip organisations.  Our clients include an iconic sportswear manufacturer, a global leader in agricultural science and a leading name in UK Construction and Property Services business.

Our style is energetic, challenging and supportive with a strong focus on providing insight through real-time observations.  Our role is to get the very best thinking from your leaders, your managers and your teams so they trust themselves to step outside of their comfort zones and actively relish implementing new skills and knowledge.  Their lightbulb moment is our passion.

In April 2015, founder Viv Bowra was part of an all-female team who successfully undertook a 100km ski trek in -45∞C across Baffin Island in the Canadian High Arctic.  She understands what it takes to make that first step into the unknown.  Our team is there to encourage participants to break through those mental barriers we often unknowingly create.

For the last 10 years, we have delivered learning solutions face-to-face, fully virtual and hybrid for global teams, and our previous clients have said:

“A huge thank you to Viv for the engaging way she delivered the two workshops, face to face in Madrid and remotely today… [the Team] have learnt some valuable tips and techniques that will help us be more influential in our stakeholder engagements”.

“I feel that I have really improved my assertive impact. The course really helped me to pick up on behaviours that I was not even aware that I was doing”

“Thank you so much for all your support and wisdom. You created a really supportive and comfortable environment for us to get uncomfortable. I have really valued all your feedback and insights throughout the course”