As a coach, Emma works with teachers & those in middle leadership. She works collaboratively with her clients by supporting them to:

Emma’s coaching gives you a safe space to talk, reflect and allows you to be present. It gives you ownership over decisions that will make a positive change and impact on your life. Working in education for a decade has given Emma many transferable skills. She is patient and respectful. She will listen and support and she sees the potential in everyone. Emma understands the difficulties in balancing work and life as she experienced burnout during her last few years as teacher and in leadership.

Emma has been working as a coach for a year although used coaching with her team at her previous school in her role of Head of Key Stage 1. Emma has been working with educators and teachers in helping them identify the challenges and how to make decisions that will make their work and personal lives better. Emma experienced burnout and so can relate to those teachers she works with who have similar symptoms and need a space to reflect, offload and to feel like they are competent at their job. Emma writes blogs and delivers webinars on mental health and wellbeing in schools and in children, how we can encourage resilience in our children and offers ways to use coaching style methods and questioning.

Emma’s experience of working with people started in her teens when she was involved in youth and community work. She then trained and qualified as a teacher and taught for a decade, more recently as part of the Senior Leadership Team as Head of Key Stage 1.

Emma was lead for Personal Social Health Economics Education (PSHE), and much of her work as a teacher was focused on mental health and wellbeing. As an Education Professional now, Emma writes content around PSHE topics and on wellbeing as well as delivering webinars on these subjects.

Emma is a certified England Athletics running coach and works with clients in designing bespoke training plans. As an avid marathon runner, Emma understands the impact of exercise on mental health and the difficulties in balancing work, family life and exercise/fitness.

Emma has a Diploma in Transformative Life Coaching and has been working with educators and teachers as a coach, through her business Emma Yentis Coaching, since leaving the teaching profession.

Emma also works for a charity called First Give where she goes into secondary schools and works with young people to engage them in charity work. Emma runs workshops and delivers big events where she often works with MPs, charity representatives and school leadership teams.

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