About Us
Silience Coaching and Consulting
The unseen brilliance all around us, the brilliance we take for granted, or that stays hidden from the naked eye.
Ready to find yours? Brave Your Brilliance.
Who We Are
Built on authenticity, compassion and creativity
Silience Coaching and Consultancy combines authenticity, compassion and creativity with more than 30 years of experience in business, leadership, and life.
If you, or your team, are ready to understand your Silience and find the courage to Brave Your Brilliance, you are in the right place.
Together, we'll help you to understand
Authenticity
We show up as ourselves, and create the space for you to do the same
Compassion
Understanding yourself takes courage. We meet that courage with kindness, always
Creativity
Imagination and playfulness, brought to serious work — because insight rarely arrives on demand
Why “Silience”?
Founders story
There’s a particular kind of quiet that comes after a big decision. Mine came the day I decided I had to walk away from a role I loved.
I didn’t have a plan. What I had was a list: the skills I’d built over thirty years, the values I kept returning to, the parts of my work that genuinely lit me up, and the parts that quietly drained me every time. I sat with all of it, properly, for the first time in a career that had mostly moved forward without pausing to ask why.
I started with what I loved, then what I had to offer others. What kept surfacing wasn’t a job title. It was a moment, repeated many times over many years, a colleague finding the words for a conversation they’d been avoiding, or talking themselves into believing they were ready for the role they’d talked themselves out of for years. I’d been the one sitting across from them for most of my career, formally or not, not handing them the answer, but asking the questions that let them find it themselves. Watching that shift from doubt to ownership, knowing I’d helped create the conditions for it- that was the thing that had quietly given me purpose all along, long before it had a name.
That was the beginning of Silience.
The philosophy behind it is simple, even if living it isn’t always. When we understand what makes us tick — and what makes us ick — what we’re prepared to fight for, and what we’re prepared to sacrifice, when we acknowledge our strengths as much as our challenges, we can find the courage to stand up for what we believe and be true to ourselves. With congruence, with courage, with compassion and creativity. That’s where clarity comes from. That’s where purpose is found. It’s where I found mine.
Using my experience in people development and leadership, and as a creative practitioner myself — I also run a small bespoke jewellery practice — Silience now supports individuals and teams in understanding their brilliance, finding the courage to own it with humility, and truly thriving.
Ellie Smith-Barratt, Founder
Associate Member CIPD, Certified Executive Coach
Openmind™ Psychometrics Certified Practitioner
Why We Start With Self-Awareness
You can’t brave a brilliance you haven’t met
To be better leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, parents, colleagues and friends, we first have to know who we are. We need to understand why we do what we do, and why we react the way we react. Our values. Our motivations.
Because when we understand ourselves, we are in a place to make informed decisions. When we can see what we struggle with, the things, the people and the situations that bring out the best and the worst in us, we can choose what to do with that knowledge.
And here is the thing: we are fundamentally the same person at home, in the office, at the gym and in the pub. We may bring different aspects of ourselves to different places, relationships and circumstances — but we are always our whole selves. We are simply choosing what others see.
What really matters to us?
What fulfils us, and what drains us?
What are we willing to sacrifice, and for what?
What brings out the best and the worst in us?
What we stand for
Our Values
These 4 values shape every conversation, every workshop and every programme we deliver
Congruence
Always our true self, authenticity under pressure
Courage
Choosing the honest thing over the easy thing
Compassion
Meeting struggle, our own or others, with understanding, not judgement
Creativity
Embracing curiosity to create possibility
Why So Much Development Doesn’t Stick
The away-day glow, and what happens after
Have you ever worked somewhere that ran leadership development courses or team-building days? Did you go back to the day-to-day and actually see a change? If you were lucky, if the course was well delivered and well considered — perhaps you did.
But what happened the next time the business hit a period of stress? Did the goodwill and camaraderie fall away? Did the old challenges, the old personality clashes and the difficult leadership revert to type?
Don’t get us wrong: there are some incredible leadership development programmes out there. But if a person does not understand themselves, is not aware of their impact on others, or cannot see the benefit of change for themselves, you are fighting a losing battle, and likely spending thousands of pounds, and a great deal of valuable time, to do it.
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That is why everything at Silience starts with self-awareness. It is the difference between a good day out and a lasting change.
Accreditations and Memberships
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Member
Certified in the RideTheWave coaching methodology
OpenMind Certified Practitioner
“We are the same person at home, in the office, the gym, the pub. We are always our whole selves, we are simply choosing what others see.”
What we believe about being human
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Ready to find your Silience?
Whether you’re here for yourself or for your organisation, it starts with a conversation, no jargon, no hard sell, just a chance to talk about where you are and where you’d like to be
