Compassionate Leadership & Consultancy

BalO will help you discover how compassion connects the dots between leadership, performance & well-being

How we can help you:

1. Leadership Development

Our compassionate leadership development programmes support teams to realise their potential, navigate periods of change, and build the resilience required to lead a business in a rapidly changing world.

2. Executive Coaching

Our bespoke Executive Coaching programmes help your leaders with the tools they need to support their own wellbeing, make effective decisions, tolerate distress and build more effective relationships

3. Strategy Consulting

Our team are experienced at faciliating the development of company strategies. We enable organisations to establish their values and North Star and use this to develop a sustainable strategy.

4. Training &
Events

We offer a range of evidenced based staff training and wellbeing courses, aimed at helping organisations consider how the principals of compassion can help achieve their goals and support success.

BalO's Founders

Jamesina Sainsbury

Jamesina is a strategic consultant and executive coach who spent her early career working in operational excellence for manufacturing companies.

She soon decided that there is no operational excellence without human flourishing and found her passion was in enabling people to perform at their best.

Since then she has worked with organisations across the globe to help them shape their leadership teams, cultures and workplace environments.

Chris Irons

Chris a Clinical Psychologist who is passionate in how compassion – for others & ourselves – can have a transformational affect on life, relationships & well-being.

He has spent much of the last 20 years researching, writing about, teaching and training people, teams and organisations about the benefits of compassion, and how to cultivate compassion in authentic and sustainable ways.

Chris is the author of five compassion-related books, as well as the self-compassion app

Why is compassionate leadership important for organisations?

The average person will spend about a fifth of their life at work – and it makes a big difference whether you feel your manager, colleagues and organisation more generally are kind, caring and supportive, or critical, disparaging and unhelpful.

At BalO we believe that all organisations can benefit from becoming more compassionate and caring to their staff. Let us help you to create an environment that facilitates psychological safety and support, and in turn, a happier workplace and better performing teams.

Watch the video to find out a bit more

Features of compassionate organisations

Higher employee well-being, happiness and positive emotions

Lower employee turnover, absenteeism and psychological distress

Higher compassion between colleagues, and to customers

Words from our partners

Jamesina was brought in during the early days of Astaara to develop the idea of the true North star of Astaara. She orchestrated the gathering of ideas and concepts of the values of Astaara that are real to us as a work group. The way she developed the outcome enabling all voices to be heard materially improved the buy-in. We are only at the start of our journey, but Jamesina will be by our side as we build and grow.

Jamesina's ability to listen and communicate whilst evidencing and understanding both circumstance and who I am is remarkable. I believe she is directly responsible for improving my resilience and calmness in moments of real stress and pressure. She has made me a better manager and a more positive person.

Being at the top of an organisation can be lonely. Who can you confide in? Who do you talk to explore new ideas? Do you challenge yourself enough? Who can help you set the right agenda for your organisation and for yourself? I’m naturally confident and self-motivated, but Jamesina has coaxed me into reflecting more deeply about what I’m seeking to achieve for Canopius, my own career and my personal life. I thoroughly recommend engaging with her.

Chris provided an interesting, insightful and fun workshop - we've really started to embed these ideas in to our business