Nichola Rees – Founder

With a psychotherapy background our courses provide solid foundations for sustainable behavioural change.” Nichola Rees, Director of Raise Your Potential

Having left drama school in 1997 Nichola worked as a professional actress for twelve years while running the NRYA (which was set up in 1995). Within that time Nichola found herself roleplaying for various large corporate firms as well as presenting and facilitating study skill techniques (LPT) for schools up and down the country.  Alongside this Nichola worked for Classic FM & Jazz FM as their morning traffic and travel girl as well as being a regular presenter on the Shopping Channel ‘QVC’. 

In 2004 Nichola had her first book published ‘Drama and Role-Play’ by Scholastic and since that time has been involved in various other writing projects for Scholastic.  Most recently the Read and Respond series.

Towards the end of 2007 Nichola gained a master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychotherapy which led to further facilitating work in the corporate sector for companies like Rolls Royce, Pfizer, Network Rail, Ernst & Young, Coca Cola and British American Tobacco. Alongside this Nichola ran a small psychotherapy practice in Maida Vale, London.

In 2015 ‘Raise Your Potential’ was established as a corporate training /coaching company that specialises in Leadership Training, Executive Coaching, Resilience, Influencing Skills, Performance Enablement, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking and Confidence Management and much more.

Nichola is also MBACP accredited and qualified in Psychometric Testing using the Saville Assessments/Willis Towers Watson – Wave Occupational and Personality Testing Model.

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