What about eco-friendly firms with plenty of passion and potential - but who might lack the interpersonal skills to move to the next level?
We started wayvie because we want to make those bold, brave, and disruptive visions into a firm reality.
All it takes is a clear, human approach – through coaching that’s fun, inspiring, and measurable through outcomes.
What’s the ‘why’ of wayvie?
We aim to help eco-focused brands get their green teams up and moving. We want to see your ideas go viral. To do that, you need to invest in your people!
Since we started, we’ve been committed to helping businesses make small changes to build towards a ripple effect. Abundant small changes build up to bigger impacts – which is why we want to help as many green firms make a difference as possible.
Helping you achieve brilliance means we’re doing our part to super-size your performance. The better you perform, the more you give back to the planet. Everyone benefits.
It’s all about achieving big in a challenging landscape. You can scale up your business and leave an inspiring legacy with the right skills and attitude.
No matter where you are at in your eco-journey, we can give you that extra boost to hit those next crucial milestones. Believe in the impact of your own ripple effect!
Is wayvie accountable?
All our courses and sessions are fully accounted for in line with our carbon emission commitment. We’re conscious and committed to being as clean as possible, and we can even show you how.
We use accountancy data to calculate how we spend resources and where we generate CO2. We understand that it’s not always possible to avoid creating emissions – and we’re transparent on all that we do emit.
We want you to be confident that you’re training with someone genuinely passionate about respecting the world around us.
wayvie transfers the same calculations and approach to your training. How can we deliver green-friendly development that aligns with your ethos and needs?
wayvie is committed to building brilliance with as few emissions as possible.
Meet The Team
Here are the people who make Wayvie happen.
Pete Starr
Pete’s our Founder and the boss (in name only!) at wayvie. Pete has loads of learning and development experience and comes from a sales & leadership background. He loves helping green businesses become brilliant by investing in their people.
Talk to Pete about:
- Selling & account management
- Leadership development
- Performance coaching
- Wim Hof – cold water is Pete’s bag!
Boxing – he’s an undefeated heavyweight, check out his moves here.
Lucy Gooderham
Lucy’s our Head of Customer Engagement. Lucy service and retail background means she creates the best experiences for our customers, is always looking to surpass expectations and find solutions to even the most complex situations.
Talk to lucy about:
- Customer experience
- Retail management
- Social media and marketing
- Nandos – what Lucy doesn’t know, isn’t worth knowing 😊
- Hockey – you’ll find Lucy on the pitch most weekends
Jen Keay
Jen’s our Training Administrator. Jen has lots of experience in HR/People roles and loves people development. Jen supports the whole team at Chilli to make things happen for our customers.
Talk to Jen about:
- HR, people development trends and challenges
- Psychotherapy (she’s doing her training right now)
- Silversmithing – if you’re after a ring or two making, she’s your lady
- Yoga – Jen’s on her way to mastering ‘zen’ and is a big fan of Yin
Trainers & Partners
At wayvie, we have a trusted partnership network of specialist consultants to ensure the right skills and chemistry fit with our clients. Coming from a range of backgrounds, they are all accredited trainers in their fields and carry real world experience to deliver outstanding learning experiences for our clients. Here are a few to give you a flavour…
Beth Grayston
Beth’s a Sales and Exec’ team Coach at wayvie. Beth’s a true believer in the power of coaching in sales and business development, and how it can help people and businesses achieve their goals.
Talk to Beth about:
- Coaching in sales and leadership
- Business development
- Customer relationship management
- Her love of house plants and even better, her ability to keep them alive!
- Music festivals and being by the sea, a combination of the two is her nirvana
Heather Steele
Heather has over 20 years’ experience in Retail Management and Leadership and has a passion for developing individuals and teams to discover their true leadership powers and drive team engagement. Heather is also an Internationally Qualified Life Coach; supporting people to live the life and happiness they truly want.
Talk to Heather about –
- Coaching and Leadership
- Team Engagement
- Hospitality and Retail Customer Service
- Mindfulness
- Jiu Jitsu – Heather is a silver medalist (don’t be too impressed…it’s only at a white belt level)
Anup Ravi
Originally from India, Anup brings global experience and cross-cultural understanding, having worked internationally as a humanitarian aid worker and as a marine engineer, leading teams from all around the world in conflict settings, in natural disaster response, and at sea.
With over 17 years of experience as a leader in both national and international
organizations and as an ICF-accredited coach, Anup supports his clients to move outside their comfort zone and push themselves beyond their fears, to develop a vision that fosters courage and accelerates growth.Anup has experience working both in the not-for-profit and corporate sectors. He’s a great listener, skilled at guiding and enabling people to maximize their potential through a structured coaching process and can truly relate to so many of the challenges that people in evolving circumstances can face.
Ask Anup about:
- Systemic team coaching
- Conflict mediation
- Leadership development
- Team facilitation
- Emergency response
- Performance coaching
- Wild swimming and deep-sea diving
Steve Darlington
Steve is one of our longer serving members of the team. Steve has great experience in organisational and team development. .With extensive experience in sales, leadership and management and performance coaching, he loves working with leaders at all levels to get results with their people.
Talk to Steve about:
- Performance coaching
- Leadership & management development
- Developing high performing teams
- Driving sales results
- Golf – when not working with people Steve will be found on the golf course improving his handicap. He never says no to a round of golf!!
Stuart Harris
Stuart is an experienced Leadership Trainer having delivered training programmes and workshops to new and existing Managers for 17 years both in person and online. Stuart has a sales and customer service background, working with global businesses in a number of leadership roles.
Stuart has worked as a Trainer with blue chips and SME’s and has a real passion for the environment, helping leaders and teams in likeminded organisations to realise their potential, as well as having a personal dedication to have a positive impact on the planet.
Ask Stuart about:
- Sales training
- Leadership development
- Executive coaching
- His ongoing conservation efforts including beach cleaning and litter picking across west Scotland
Nick Page
Nick is a creatively curious and skilful enabler of individuals, teams and organisations. Passionate about increasing impact through personal fulfilment, his foundation of 30 years in fast paced tech coupled with a deep level of human understanding makes him both a highly pragmatic and deeply empathetic facilitator and coach.
With experience across a myriad of roles in corporate, mid-market and start-ups, he now works with organisations and individuals to bring real and lasting change.
Talk to Nick about:
- Enabling curiosity & creativity
- Sustainable culture change
- Authentic personal leadership
- Leadership & management development
- Chocolate!
Helen Tebay
Helen’s a Sales Trainer and Coach at wayvie. Helen has a sales background and her sales philosophy centres on getting really clear in explaining your offering, personalising value and gaining customer commitment to increase and maintain profitable revenue.
Talk to Helen about:
- Sales; from strategy, to coaching, to leadership and everything in between
- Her love of travel – Helen was in fact holiday rep’ for 8 years!
- Pizza – Helen is a BIG fan so long as pineapple is involved.
James Staniforth
James is partnering with us on our sustainability journey to make sure the wayvie business is as sustainable as can be; measuring our environmental impact whilst delivering training to reduce and offset against our footprint. He is passionate about the environment and business, having worked in sustainability for several years. James is a IEMA Member (The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment), and a Climate Reality Leader who leads a positive impact on our planet.
Talk to James about:
- Environment, business, and culture
- Being led by his purpose – his drive are his wife and 2 daughters
- James loves most sports, football, golf and keeping fit
Need some Sustainability expertise in your business? Check out James’ business here www.sbs.eco – he is brilliant!
Charlotte Hopkins
Charlotte is a design consultant with wayvie who has created many of our courses including our CPD accredited workshops. Charlotte has been creating learning and development activities for over 20 years and is passionate about designing learning that matters. She is supporting wayvie to build effective and engaging courses that help the people and businesses they work with, elevate with excellence.
Talk to Charlotte about:
- Inspiring people through learning and development
- Coaching and mentoring (she is currently completing her PhD)
- Yoga (she’s trying!)