Change. Make it Right. Then, make it Better.

Successfully delivering human centred change since 2004

Nina has spent over 20 years delivering global complex change projects for several FTSE 100 companies. She developed a method called "A human approach to innovation and change" in 2004 and recently, while studying with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leaders (CISL), evolved that method to support individuals and businesses who want to align their values with their actions in tackling climate change.

Nina's business change focus has always been people, planet and prosperity for all. Nina has a post grad in Strategic Leadership, graduated from the CISL and Meyler Campbell, has a BA (hons) in Business Studies, and is a member of the Climate Coaching Alliance.

Coaching moments to pause, reset, see the world and yourself more consciously as you co-create with AI. Coaching brings those moments to life. The challenge isn’t how we use AI, but how we stay conscious while we do. In the Age of AI, awareness is your competitive edge, and conscious transformation is how human - AI co-creation stays relevant.

AI won’t replace humans but, AI will replace humans who aren’t conscious.

Her new book ‘Your Move: The Human Reset’ is a timely and thought-provoking guide for anyone seeking to navigate change with confidence and compassion. Available now!

Your Move: The Human Reset

Artificial intelligence is transforming how we live and work, faster than most of us can process. The real challenge now isn’t how we use it, but how we stay conscious while we do. If we don’t, we risk building systems that automate without thinking, stripping out the very awareness that makes us human.

In Your Move: The Human Reset, transformation consultant and founder of Cheeky Monkey, Nina Dar, offers a bold, positive guide to thriving with AI, not competing with it. Through 100 short coaching moments, she shows how to keep intelligent, conscious decision-making at the heart of everything we build, create, and lead.

“A genuinely uplifting read. Nina's ability to to articulate the quiet frustrations that I feel day to day - feeling off-track, overwhelmed, or disconnected - while offering a constructive, hopeful path forward - was a chance for me to rethink my habits and routines. The stories and examples explain concepts that are easy to relate to. Highly recommended.”
Andrew Lodge

Andrew Lodge

Solutions

It’s my job to help you and your teams spiral up, shine brighter and embrace change that will keep you, your people, and the planet prosperous and healthy. Each solution leads to success, sometimes the choice is about timing, let’s talk about that.

Coaching

Coaching

It’s not tedious or slow. Spiral up together using a style that mixes system, vision, and directive coaching.

Consultancy

Consultancy

It’s not about telling you what you already know. Spiral up using my experience and skills to lead on change you want others to follow.

Training

Training

It’s not a waste of your time. Spiral up by adding to your skill set in a way you can affect change.

Who I’ve worked with

Spot your company name? No, let’s change that! Spot your company name and you don’t know me? Let’s change that too! Give me a call.

AstraZeneca
KFC
Moog
PZ Cussons
Sky
EY
Spirax Sarco
Royal Bank of Scotland
Unilever
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Design Council
PLS
John West
Uprising
Manchester Creative & Media Academy
Seal Films
Access Point
Baker Hughes

Blog

How to turn oh no into Aha

No-one really knows how many thoughts a person has in a day, but those who have tried to study it, come up with eye watering numbers, thousands to tens of thousands! According to the National Science Foundation, 80% of our thoughts are negative and 95% of our thoughts are repetitive. That seems like a waste of our brainpower. How do we change those negative, repetitive thoughts into something more useful and positive?

Can we shift the balance of power in a VUCA world?

We are living in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) world, and it’s easy to feel like we can’t possibly shift the balance of power. This feeling does destabilise and make us feel anxious. It can sap motivation, increase the chances of making bad decisions, or paralyse decision-making processes. What can we do about that?

Learn to determine your own mindset

Our mindset comes from everything that has happened to us, all our experiences, everything that someone said to us and all the messages we have been exposed to – it’s a mind-blowing amount of data. It’s not just everything we have absorbed, it’s also the way we stored it. Did we store it with happy feelings, sadness, fear, excitement, jealously, gratitude or one of the other feelings that we are open to?

I agree with Serena Williams, retirement isn’t a modern word

Serena doesn’t have to do the maths on whether she can or can’t financially retire, which is where most retirement conversations end up, her focus is on what this moment in her life means to her. She is expressing her feelings and emotions about leaving a sport that she loves and has dominated her adult life so far and where she goes from here, her transition.

Would you choose to upload?

They say that life imitates art, and we can learn our future from Sci-fi, something that I thought continually when watching the Amazon Prime video series, Upload. I missed this when it was released in 2020, pre–Facebook’s Meta-universe, Horizon Worlds (I think). Now I am hooked finding out just how our digital afterlife can be monetised and how the lure of never saying goodbye to your loved ones pulls at your heartstrings. It’s compelling watching for so many reasons.

Looking forward to visiting the coastline?

Dipping your toes in the water, or perhaps going for a swim? Looking forward to having a seafood or fish lunch or dinner?

The Oceans and Seas that we love to visit face significant challenges; coastal erosion, rising sea levels, warmer and more acidic waters, marine pollution, overexploitation of fish stocks and decrease of marine biodiversity. Following a week of discussions and events in Lisbon, Portugal, the UN Ocean Conference concluded on Friday, with governments and heads of state agreeing on a new political declaration to Save Our Ocean.

Get in touch

There are a lot of psychological factors that come into play when delivering change; trust, confidence and the most basic but most important; can we work together? Does that chemistry exist between us to deliver what you need? There is only one way to find out.

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