Founders
Two careers, one conclusion.
We spent more than fifty years between us inside corporate life, and we started Perera & Green because we kept meeting the same problem from opposite ends.
Why we started
We met through work and realised we had been having the same conversation for years from different sides. Victoria had spent her career watching capable people disappear inside organisations, and Nicola had spent hers trying to keep them engaged, only to learn that a communications plan cannot fix a role that is impossible to do.
What we agreed on was simpler than either of us expected. The interesting question is never why a particular person is stressed, because that question leads straight to blame or to a resilience course. The better question is what is happening in this system that makes this the sensible response, and it is usually answered by looking at how work is designed, what leaders are rewarded for and what nobody feels able to say.
Perera & Green exists to ask that question properly, with people who have sat in the same rooms and know how expensive the answer can be.
Victoria & Nicola
Co-founder
Victoria Green
Victoria spent her corporate career inside large organisations before moving into coaching, and she now works with senior leaders on the inner side of leadership: the beliefs, habits and unspoken rules that shape how people behave when the pressure is on.
Her style is calm and direct. She is less interested in a tidy action plan than in the sentence a leader has been avoiding saying out loud, and she is comfortable sitting in the silence until it arrives.
She is particularly interested in the gap between how leaders think they are experienced and how they are actually experienced, and in what happens to capable people when they stop trusting their own judgement.
- Works with
- Senior leaders, founders and directors, one to one
- Also
- Workshop design and facilitation, leadership offsites
- Particular interest
- The inner life of leadership, and the cost of keeping up an appearance
- Based
- Sevenoaks, Kent. Works in London and online.
Co-founder
Nicola Spencer-Perera
Nicola spent twenty-seven years in global corporate life, leading employee engagement and corporate communications, before becoming an executive coach. She works with the whole person: what the body is carrying, what the mind is avoiding and what the work actually demands.
She is an ICF-accredited coach with a degree in physical education and qualifications in breathwork facilitation and sound therapy, which is less unusual than it sounds when you consider how many people under pressure have tried to think their way out of something the body is holding.
She founded Reset Wellness, where she works with individuals and teams on sustainable performance, and she brings the same practicality to Perera & Green: small changes, practised properly, rather than a dramatic overhaul that lasts a fortnight.
- Works with
- Executives, teams and whole organisations
- Qualifications
- ICF-accredited coach, breathwork facilitator, sound therapy practitioner
- Background
- Twenty-seven years in global corporate life, employee engagement and communications
- Also
- Founder of Reset Wellness
How we work together
Two people in the room, not one.
Most of our work is led by one of us, with the other acting as a thinking partner outside the room, because when you are holding a group's anxiety it helps to have someone who can tell you what they think you are missing.
For organisational work we often work as a pair, one in the room and one observing, then comparing notes. It is a more expensive way to work and it is also the only way we have found to see a system clearly while you are standing inside it.
You will be working with us.
Not an associate, not a junior consultant. If we take the work, one of us will be in the room.