
Pressure Doesn’t Build Character
- It Reveals It

Gemma is a qualified coach, mentor, speaker, and facilitator specialising in mental agility and development under pressure. Shaped by lived experience and grounded in professional practice, she challenges individuals and organisations to think more intentionally about their goals, behaviours, and the habits that shape performance and wellbeing. She understands how easily people slip into autopilot functioning, but disconnected from who they are and who they are capable of becoming. Her passions are on a wide spectrum from development and trauma awareness to social justice.
Committed to becoming a lifelong learner Gemma brings together formal qualifications, multidisciplinary training, and real-world insight to support sustainable development. Her work focuses on building mental adaptability, ethical practice, and the capacity to navigate complexity without losing the person in the process.
Inner Performance
Social Justice
Mental Adaptability
Contextual Development Missionary and Ostomate


Gemma established Mindful Brains as a development-led organisation grounded in learning, reflection, and ethical practice. Rather than jumping straight to performance outcomes, the work focuses on the processes that create them. The aim is agile performance: a sustainable state where individuals and organisations develop awareness, decision-making capacity, and practical tools to operate effectively under pressure. This approach supports people and systems to perform with clarity, safety, and adaptability whether navigating demand, complexity, or the public eye.
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Gemma’s professional approach is shaped by lived experience through sustained adversity, a decision to change and connect a that fundamentally changed how she sees the world and how she adapts within it.

Academy and elite individuals and team sports.
Performance

Professionals in high-risk, high conflict and demanding roles.​
People, Service & Systems

Middle/Senior leaders and teams shaping culture and outcomes.
Leadership & Organisations





