About Me

Gillian Kitchen early years consultant, trainer & coach

Prior to establishing the Change Agency, Gillian worked for over 20 years at senior management level in the field of early years and childcare. As a consultant for a large multi-national company supporting the development of a government initiative for Children’s Centres. Most recently as an early years inspector working for Prospects on behalf of Ofsted. Currently she is an associate trainer with the NDNA and an early years consultant working with some of the leading nursery providers in the UK.

She has helped to drive high standards of quality and has implemented organisational change for a number of services.

Gillian has an MA in Management, a social work qualification, NNEB and is qualified in personal, leadership and executive coaching and mentoring and trained to inspect early years settings under the Common Inspection Framework. She brings energy, passion and insight to support those she works with to help to gain a better understanding of themselves, in both their professional and personal lives.

She works with people to help them to achieve their goals and dreams. She works with individuals and organisations providing leadership development, coaching and mentoring to leaders, personal coaching to individuals wishing to make positive changes in their lives. She supports early years settings to develop and improve their outcomes.

She motivates people to get the best out of life, offering practical down to earth coaching and consultancy to individuals or groups.