Bringing Compassion to
your Organisation

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

Why is compassion important for leaders and 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.

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How we can help you

Leadership Development

Learn about our compassion-based leadership development courses, and how these can bring powerful changes to your organisation

Executive Coaching

Find out about our Compassion Focused Coaching, designed to help facilitate greater self-compassion and effective stress management

Training & Events

Learn about our evidenced based staff training and wellbeing courses, along with other compassion in organisation events

Strategy Consulting

Find out about how our strategic consulting can help bring the most our of your organisations talent and goals

BalO's Founders

Jamesina Sainsbury

I’m a leadership consultant and executive coach and began my career in operational excellence, but soon figured out that there is no operational excellence without human flourishing and compassion.

I found my passion was in enabling people to perform at their best, and since then have worked with organisations across the globe to shape their leadership and culture.

Chris Irons

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

I’ve 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.

Compassionate organisations have

Higher employee well-being, happiness and positive emotions

Lower employee turnover, absenteeism and psychological distress

Higher compassion between colleagues, and to customers

BalO Client Reviews

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

Bringing Compassion to your Organisation