Dr Farnaaz Sharief MBE
MULTI-AWARD-WINNING WELL-BEING AND RESILIENCE TRAINER – CONSULTANT – EXECUTIVE COACH – GP
SENIOR FELLOW FACULTY OF MEDICAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Farnaaz is an NLP Practitioner, Executive and DISC certified coach with extensive experience in working across organisational boundaries to empower individuals. She is a Senior Fellow with the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, understands system’s challenges, is passionate about building relationships, transforming teams, and keeping people focused, motivated and moving.

A GP by background and former Medical Director, Farnaaz has over 15 years of experience working with multidisciplinary teams across primary and secondary care. Throughout her extensive career she has developed an in depth understanding of the challenges faced by clinical leaders and developed a multi-award-winning resilience programme that has seen people improve their psychological well-being, build confidence and enhance fulfilment in their job roles. This saw her feature on the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2018 and receive a British Citizens Award for healthcare at the House of Lords the year before.

She creates safe reflective spaces, using robust coaching methodologies, such as the GROW model to inform her approach. Farnaaz encourages people to think differently, recognise their strengths and bring about meaningful change to their personal and professional lives.

Her facilitated sessions are a balance of gentle humour, constructive challenge, grounding mindfulness and interactive discussion that enhance individual strengths and enable purposeful engagement. By using DISC assessments, she helps individuals improve their
understanding of themselves by giving them more insight into how they make tough decisions, deal with negative feedback, improve relationships and gain more influence.
Her clinical acumen, leadership style and solution focused approach has strengthened clinical teams across health and care partnerships and established placed based clinical collaboratives built on mutual trust and respect.

As a senior clinical leader, she has led numerous high performing teams, encouraging them to think creatively and deliver new models of care that improve patients’ experience and health outcomes.