Professor Divine Charura

MREW Leadership Peer Support Programme:

Professor Divine Charura and Kerry Slater will be presenting an update on the pilot study for the MREW Leadership Peer Support programme, which was launched in December 2023. The professor led the pilot study, accompanied by Kerry as the project lead. Fourteen team leaders volunteered to take part in the study which was a new initiative aimed at supporting our leaders with the challenges of managing operational and team issues, as well as the impact of the leadership role on their own wellbeing. It was professionally facilitated in two groups by The Workplace Collective alongside those who understand these challenges the best: other team leaders from across England and Wales.  

Six months on, with a new joint insight into the true complexities and unique challenges of the role across the different MREW regions, the team leaders shared their feedback on the process with the researchers. This session will be the first opportunity to hear the outcomes of the pilot from the member’s perspective, offering an insight into the team leader role across MREW and proposing ways in which more support can be offered for team leaders.  

Professor Charura is a coaching psychologist, and a practitioner psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council in England. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and an adult psychotherapist. His work as an executive leadership coach, has included supporting members of senior leadership teams within corporate organisations, and private institutions in the UK and abroad.   

As a practitioner psychologist, psychotherapist, coach and researcher, Divine’s work and interests are on the multidisciplinary application of coaching, including coaching managers and leaders who support teams offering frontline services to members of the public. He is passionate about supporting individuals and teams to maintain psychological health, wellbeing in the workplace, developing people, their potential and talent. He has co-authored and edited numerous books in counselling, psychology and psychotherapy and a lover of music, art and outdoor pursuits.