About us
With over 60 years combined experience, we formed People Shift in 2024 to help develop great leaders and managers, create high-performing teams and help organisations thrive.
Love where you work
At People Shift, we believe the key to high-performing teams and organisations lies in creating great places to work. When people feel seen, valued, and supported — and when their work brings energy, meaning, enrichment, reward, and connection — they don’t just perform better; they thrive. And when people thrive, organisations thrive too.
Our programmes help leaders, teams, and individuals develop the skills and behaviours that turn good workplaces into great ones. Drawing on positive psychology and evidence-based practice, we equip people with practical tools to build environments where motivation, creativity, and collaboration come naturally.
Loving your work doesn’t mean every day is effortless. It means having the skills, mindsets, and relationships that help you find reward and purpose, overcome challenges, and keep growing. These are the shifts that we help you create.
James Carrier
James is passionate about leadership and personal development, and helping people have better lives. He works mainly on our development programmes. He’s a former chartered accountant and project manager who enjoys travel, good food and running, and who is based in Edinburgh.
Laura Fairly
Laura is passionate about encouraging people to be their best self in the workplace and believes that when teams work collaboratively, amazing things can flourish. She started out as an office junior for a Solicitor’s upon leaving school and spent most of her career in Financial Services. When she isn’t working or being ‘Mum’, she enjoys running, walking and being by the sea in Fife, Scotland, where she lives!
Lee Smith
Lee is a dedicated coach and trainer who loves helping people and organisations develop. He spent the majority of his career working as an IT director in Financial Services, before a coaching programme exploring Psychological Safety opened his eyes to the power of coaching and supporting others. He’s based in Nottingham and when not working, can be found feeding his Alpacas.
Megan Turnbull
Megan is an experienced business psychologist and executive coach who specialises in leadership development, most recently as a senior manager in a global consultancy leadership development practice, and is now moving into independent work. Through her work, she aims to ease suffering and support personal growth and wellbeing to help people look back on a life well lived.
How we help organizations
We provide leadership development programmes and consulting services to clients around the world to help them become high performing organizations that are great places to work. We receive great feedback, build meaningful and lasting relationships and provide reduced cost services where price is a barrier.
To explore how we can help create a People Shift in your organisation, please get in touch.