Your Coach
Shireen Motara —
from the inside out.
I have spent more than fifteen years working with leaders, organisations, and systems across Africa and globally — helping people think more clearly, act more deliberately, and build things that actually hold up under pressure.
The Founders Circle grew directly from that work. Again and again, I met accomplished women who were stuck not because they lacked capability, but because no one had helped them turn their expertise into something they owned. The programme is the answer I kept wishing I could hand them.
I bring to this work a deep grounding in systems thinking, feminist facilitation, and the Enneagram — a framework that allows me to work with the whole person, not just the surface-level presenting question. My approach is direct, evidence-based, and grounded in the belief that reflection without action is incomplete.
The Founders Circle is not a cheerleading programme. It is a working one. You will write, think hard, test ideas in the real world, and be held to the commitments you make. What you leave with will be yours — earned, not gifted.
Coaching Methodology
- Enneagram 5 Lens — type, core motivation, centres of intelligence, inner critic voices
- Feminist facilitation principles — power-aware, equity-centred, strengths-based
- Systems thinking — pattern recognition, leverage points, unintended consequences
- Action learning — reflection is only complete when it leads to tested action
- Inside-out design — sustainable change built on self-awareness, not external prescription