About Centrepoint
Who we are
Centrepoint helps organisations reduce the hidden people costs sitting underneath turnover, absence and burnout. We work with HR Directors, Chief People Officers and CEOs, in organisations of 500 to 1,000 or more people. Most consultancies work on the organisation alone. We work both sides: the leadership, systems and culture around your people, and the human being underneath the data.
Why us
Daniel and Lily have spent over twenty years between them in high-pressure environments: military command, defence health, corporate talent leadership, and hands-on coaching in movement, nutrition and human health. They don’t outsource, and they don’t teach anything they haven’t lived themselves.
Daniel James
Co-Founder. Army Commando Officer · Defence Health & Wellbeing · Coach
In his early twenties, Daniel built a multi-million-pound business, then lost it and found himself homeless. He rebuilt through personal training and life coaching. He went on to spend nearly a decade as an Army Commando Officer, commanding a squadron of around 300 people across 17 countries. His last post was at Sandhurst. He was an Assistant Chief Instructor there, teaching new officers to lead. He then became a Defence Health and Wellbeing Adviser and Level 4 nutritionist across a 3,000-person organisation preparing for deployment. Today he competes in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, coaches both adults and children, and runs a men’s circle in central Vietnam.
Daniel advised the commanding officer of an Army regiment of 800. Stress-related absence there fell by 60%, and he was part of that work.
Daniel also speaks to leadership teams. His keynote, Build Teams That Last, is about how pressure moves through a team and how leaders stop passing it on. His Sustainable Leaders session is for the managers stuck in the middle.
Lily James
Co-Founder. Corporate Talent · Human Health · People Coach
Lily began her career in international recruitment and talent acquisition inside FTSE-listed businesses, working closely with corporate teams and seeing first-hand how organisations make decisions about their people. She then trained extensively across yoga, Ayurveda, naturopathy, pilates and movement coaching, building deep expertise in human health and behaviour. That combination, corporate insight and hands-on health training, means she can translate what she knows about the body into language a boardroom understands, and back again.
Lily has worked with corporate teams inside FTSE-listed organisations on the practical tools behind sustainable performance.
How we work
- Identify. See what’s actually driving it.
- Action. Put the right response in the right place.
- Embed. Make sure it lasts.
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