Pause

About

 

Pause Global is a corporate training and coaching company helping leaders slow down, reset and lead with clarity.

Rooted in both philosophy and science, we offer simple, practical tools to help leaders stay grounded, focused, and fully human in a world that rarely stops.

 

Flagship Pause Retreats

Immersive spaces for reflection, renewal and reconnection.

/ 01 We are known for

This is leadership for a new era: grounded,
spacious and deeply human

Transformational Coaching

Deep, bespoke coaching that unlocks insight and builds sustainable leadership.

Breakthrought Results

Trusted by leaders worldwide for wellbeing training that scales – creating lasting impact, personally and professionally.

/ 01 We are known for

This is leadership for a new era: grounded,
spacious and deeply human

Flagship Pause Retreats

Immersive spaces for reflection, renewal and reconnection.

Transformational Coaching

Deep, bespoke coaching that unlocks insight and builds sustainable leadership.

Breakthrought Results

Trusted by leaders worldwide for wellbeing training that scales – creating lasting impact, personally and professionally.

True coaching is an intimate journey you take with yourself, destination unknown.


Danielle North Founder Pause Global

/ 02 About Danielle North

Founder: Author, Coach, Space Holder

Danielle North is a UK-based international executive coach, consultant, and facilitator with 20+ years’ experience working with leaders and teams in over twenty countries.

She specialises in executive coaching, leadership development, team facilitation, coach development, and organisational change.

With a strong operational background, including several years in Asia as Managing Director of a Leadership Development Consultancy and Coaching Company, Danielle blends systems thinking with deep understanding of human development. She helps leaders achieve breakthroughs, enhance performance, strengthen connection to purpose and maintain wellbeing.

Danielle is founder of Pause Global, a six-time published author, and has worked with clients including PepsiCo, McKinsey, HSBC, Accenture, Unilever and Mars.

/ 03 Author and Thought Leader

Danielle is the author of six books, translated into over ten languages and read by more than 100,000 people worldwide.

01 / Morning Meditations to focus the mind and wake up your energy for the day ahead.. 02 / Walking Meditations to find a place of peace, wherever you are Meditations. 03 / Sleep Meditations to help tired minds unwind and drift off…Meditations. 04 / Pause how to press pause before life does it for you. 05 / On Purpose discover the meaning of your life. 06 / Pause Every Day 20 mindful practices for calm & clarity.

Find out more

/ 04
Coaching Approach

Danielle is not a coach in the traditional sense.

She doesn’t chase goals or force outcomes. Instead, she follows you, guided by intuition rather than fixed models, trusting that life will take you somewhere greater than you imagined – if you let it. Expect a lightness of touch that runs deep. Know that small steps lead to quantum leaps.

The change doesn’t come from me. It comes from you, and I will be right beside you as it unfolds.

Danielle North Founder Pause Global

Find out more

/ 04
Coaching Approach

Danielle is not a coach in the traditional sense.

She doesn’t chase goals or force outcomes. Instead, she follows you, guided by intuition rather than fixed models, trusting that life will take you somewhere greater than you imagined – if you let it. Expect a lightness of touch that runs deep. Know that small steps lead to quantum leaps.

The change doesn’t come from me. It comes from you, and I will be right beside you as it unfolds.

Danielle North Founder Pause Global

Find out more

/ 05 The Team

About Emily

Emily is an accomplished Chartered Psychologist, Certified Coach, Senior Leader and Talent Management professional with over 20 years’ business experience. Her focus is on executive and leader assessment, executive coaching, leadership and management development, team and system dynamics, career development, and supporting people through transition (e.g. returning to work from well-being leave, parental leave). 

She has designed and facilitated various leadership and manager development initiatives from aspiring managers to seasoned leaders, including 6-month programmes of cohorts from mixed industries and from across geographies.

Focusing not just on what clients do, she helps them uncover their habits, attitudes and underlying beliefs which may be holding them back from achieving their desired outcomes. Believing that growth and development comes from getting right to the heart of things, through values and going beyond surface behaviours, she helps individuals and teams to change their behaviours consciously, powerfully, and sustainably towards fulfilment of their goals.

About Mia

Mia’s expertise in coaching, leadership and psychology helps people perform and grow. Leveraging 20 years’ consulting experience across commercial and industrial sectors, she brings a special interest in Emotional Intelligence to her practice, with capabilities in leadership, vertical development and organisational climate.

As an executive coach and facilitator, Mia combines a relational stance with humanistic and experiential learning principles. She provides a safe space enabling brave exploration of personal, interpersonal and business challenges, co-creating insights, knowledge and practical actions.

Mia’s purpose is sustainable success: for each client to be thriving personally, growing professionally and bringing value to their organisations. Clients describe Mia as grounded, perceptive, kind, skilled and authentic. They experience her coaching and facilitation as clarifying, calming, insightful and energising.  

About Davina

Davina is an ICF-accredited (ACC) coach and EMCC-qualified team coach with experience in leadership and team development across multiple industries. Much of her corporate career has been within FMCG, working for both Associated British Foods and Unilever, but she has also worked for Financial Services, Technology and Consulting businesses of various sizes. She works closely with leaders and HR partners to tailor support, collaborating with experienced associates for larger projects.

Her expertise includes 1:1 leadership coaching, team coaching and facilitation, workshops on leadership and communication, mediation, and embodiment coaching through music and movement. Davina’s approach balances support with challenge, helping leaders and teams build self-awareness, strengthen connection, develop skills, and improve performance and workplace culture. Davina has an engaging facilitation style and can bring lightness and laughter into even the most serious of sessions. 

/ 06 Let’s Connect

If you’re exploring a new way of leading, or ready to press pause and recalibrate, Danielle holds space for what’s next.

Read Danielle’s Books