About
“Success is meaningless without fulfilment – both begin within.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
I’m a leading qualified Professional Coach. I help leaders, high achievers, entrepreneurs, entertainers, teachers, healers and the public find fulfilment, balance and ‘meaningful’ success in all areas of their lives, careers and relationships. I help individuals and teams – including with career progression, change, self discovery, confidence, business strategy, performance and so on. While I help you in all these areas, I actually do something far simpler; I help you embrace life and yourself – by moving from fighting life to flowing with it. This naturally frees your potential, restores balance, and boosts performance and fulfilment in all areas of your life and work.
I use traditional coaching skill and techniques but I also work at a deeper, direct level – from and to the heart – if you like. This gently moves you beyond simply seeing life through the ideas and fears of the mind. I’ve found it is the most effective method to help you truly be yourself in all you do.
The irony of happiness and success is that both spring from who you are within – not what you are without. Both emerge from who you are today – not what you may achieve tomorrow. Too often we miss this magic we already possess. Today I help people of all backgrounds live enriched, fulfilled lives following their hearts. I call this my ‘become who you are approach’ as you stop being lost in the noise of trying to become something else and start flowing from who you are.
My Mission & Vision
Mission: to help leaders, teachers, high achievers and people of all backgrounds achieve lasting fulfilment, co-operation, peace, understanding and ‘self-defined’ success:
- within yourself – and in your life, relationships and work
- in business and across organisations
- across communities, societies and globally.
Vision: To affect and achieve greater consciousness, compassion, co-operation, peace, understanding and ‘oneness’ in individuals, organisations, communities, society and globally.
Biography
Rasheed is a leading life coach, motivational speaker and business / corporate coach. He specialises in helping people find lasting inner fulfilment that manifests in all areas of your life. His career spans over 16 years in coaching, training, media, performance and organisational strategy. His clients include entertainers, entrepreneurs, politicians, professionals, organisations and the public. He regularly appears in media on life, work and relationship issues - including on the BBC and ITV News [view here] and quotes in The Times and Guardian.
He is an inspiring and empowering public speaker and seminar leader - uniquely popular on the business, spiritual and personal development circuits. He is a qualified member of The Coaching Academy, trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and is former Co-Director of Samaritans (Central London). He is author of an inspiring range of self-development books, videos and downloads including The Gift of Inner Success, A Zest for Business, Become who you are and the forthcoming Soul Trader. He is the partner business coach of the British Library and runs its popular Your Life, Your Business seminar. Prior to his career in coaching Rasheed was a successful communications manager and media trainer; a career which began at 18 working for Which? eventually becoming a Press Officer, Media Trainer and Media Spokesman.
After 10 years he moved on to a career as a singer-performer. On meeting countless performers who struggled with confidence, career progression and happiness he retrained as a coach to help people of all take charge of their lives.
Today his work spans coaching wealthy high achievers to empowering excluded inner city teenagers. His unique ‘become who you are‘ approach enables people of all backgrounds to achieve greater success, performance, confidence and happiness – from within. As such he is widely considered one of the UK’s leading specialists on achieving lasting inner fulfilment.