Uzma Mohamedali
CPCC, ACC, MCIM
Uzma is a professional coach and communications consultant with 20 years experience in change and communications across several industries.
She is fascinated by the process of change, especially behaviour change.
Intersectional, Uzma draws on her lived experience to guide conversations around bias. Uzma’s held workshops on microaggressions and allyship for large multinationals in the UK and Europe.
Uzma runs her practice ‘Reflect to Act Coaching’ with private clients in 6 countries. She is working towards certification by the CTI and ICF to gain world-recognized coaching credentials.
Uzma is British, in an interracial marriage and based on the tri-national borders of France, Switzerland and Germany.
As the daughter of immigrants who were themselves a minority in the countries they were born in, I was aware of the pressure to get things right and to fit in culturally.
I lived in two distinct worlds with conflicting views.
When I experienced leadership and somatic coaching, it was a powerful turn in the road that shaped my purpose to inspire others to accept themselves.
I'm now a professional coach and am working towards certification by the CTI and ICF to gain world-recognized coaching credentials. I'm passionate about creating a just and equal society.
Experience
Uzma started her career in therapeutic communication, studying the mechanics of speech and language therapy at University College London. She moved into corporate communications, extending into change management and corporate transformations.
Uzma’s previous clients as a change and internal communications consultant include repeat and extended contracts with: Barclays, Ernst & Young, Royal Sun Alliance, Royal Dutch Shell and Roche.
Most recently she has been working in Switzerland, with Roche. Here she supported the senior leaders of the 15,000 strong commercial division in their efforts towards building new ways of working and better internal and external communications.
Specialisms
Uzma has a broad mix of consulting, agency and in-house comms experience honed in senior communications positions in the UK and in Europe. She has a proven track record in the innovative design and delivery of employee communications and engagement strategy.
She has won awards for creativity and innovation from Deloitte.
Personal style
A native Londoner in Europe, Uzma is grounded, intuitive and authentic when coaching. Her focus on empathy, people and relationships have helped to ensure that change is experienced in a gentle human way rather than a mechanical change to be undergone. She has the natural ability to create safe and inclusive space.
“A relationship-builder with an analytical, conceptual and pragmatic mindset, who thrives in complex and ambiguous environments”.