Become a Shift Practitioner

Maria Raines created Shift Practitioners to amplify the impact of experienced, purpose-driven leadership consultants, coaches, and facilitators and to ignite a movement that shifts leadership toward inclusivity, resilience, and care.

Shift Practitioners is a curated directory of peer-reviewed and recommended practitioners who help organisations build capable, inclusive, high-performing leaders. Our purpose is to shift leadership globally by developing leaders locally who can inspire teams, embed inclusive practices, and influence the systems that shape organisational culture and performance.

Our Guiding Principles

At Shift Practitioners, all members commit to three guiding principles:

  • Leadership shapes the future: We develop leaders who care for people, communities, and the planet.

  • Collaboration multiplies impact: We generously share our insights and support knowing we can achieve more together than we can on our own.

  • Diversity drives resilience: We cultivate inclusive leaders who reflect and serve the communities around them.

 
 

Why Join

As a member of the Shift Practitioners directory, you’ll benefit from:

  • Visibility and reach: promote your services and prgrams across our website, social channels, and networks

  • Supportive community: connect with peers to share insights, resources, and opportunities

  • Practical growth support: receive tailored marketing advice, strategies, and tools to grow your practice

Membership Criteria

To join this carefully curated network, you will need to:

  • Demonstrate a commitment to developing inclusive, capable, and high-performing leaders.

  • Provide evidence of relevant qualifications and professional testimonials.

  • Share our vision of a world where leaders are as diverse as the communities they serve, equipped to:

    • Lead with integrity and empathy: model courage, humility, and care in every decision

    • Inspire and engage: build trust, commitment, and shared responsibility

    • Drive impact and transformation: create future-fit cultures and shape systems that deliver results

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Together, we drive meaningful change and equip leaders for the challenges ahead.

“They were nothing more than people, by themselves. Even paired, any pairing, they would have been nothing more than people by themselves. But all together, they have become the heart and muscles and mind of something perilous and new, something strange and growing and great. Together, all together, they are the instruments of change.”

Keri Hulme, The Bone People