Upspiring is a personal and professional development business helping entrepreneurs, leaders and changeworkers to grow and develop their businesses. Upspiring is co-founded by Jonny Bowden & Nikki Owen.

**JONNY BOWDEN**

After training in Law, Jonny spent the first 5 years of his career in the corporate world in various account management, product & scheme development and client relations roles. Whilst his coaching career begun somewhat inadvertently back in 2009 – he transitioned into this world full-time in 2014 and has since combined his coaching and training work with broader business development and sales-led roles.

His core passion is changework – in helping individuals and groups to achieve the kind of personal and business success that they truly desire – and he has a particular talent for helping those who feel stuck; who have been unable to work through the challenges that are presenting themselves or find a solution through other avenues. He describes himself as “The guy who helps people to solve challenges that they have not been able to solve elsewhere.”

Outside of his work, he has a passion for health, fitness and nutrition… which he does his best to balance with his love of food and travel. He also likes watching movies, reading, and spending time with family, friends and other fun, interesting people.

**NIKKI OWEN**

Nikki comes to us with 15 years experience of running and growing two personal development businesses. The first was the UK’s leading NLP & Hypnosis Training business, followed by a 3 Principles-based coaching business that trained 100’s of Clarity Coaches as well as helping 100’s of established coaches to grow their businesses. Being involved with both businesses from startup, means her experience spans all aspects of business management including admin, sales, marketing, finance, talent management and operations and gives her great insight in to the challenges that business owners face.

The teachings at the core of both of Nikki's previous businesses were that we all have mental health, all of the time - and sometimes we just need a little help to see that. Nikki’s personal transformations, journey and the things that she has experienced and learned have helped her to understand that having a deep understanding of how we as human beings work, alongside the strategy and tactics behind great business is what really helps us to create the businesses we desire.

Nikki is a mum to three young children and still somehow finds the perfect balance between business and home life! Her understanding of mental health and well-being has transformed all aspects of her life from parenting & relationships through to business success.