Discover more about our final two pillars of expertise, ranging from upskilling workforces through training and capacity building, to comprehensive needs assessments and evaluations for Public Health departments across the United Kingdom.
Empowera’s Public Health Training Programme is an evidence based initiative for Public Health Professionals at all levels. Through a Coaching (formerly motivational interviewing) approach, we integrate mental, emotional, and physical aspects beyond professional skills.
This programme is highly customisable, tailored to your organisational needs, audience and values – unlike the one-size fits-all approach used by most competitors.
All of our programmes are aligned to the ICF (International Coaching Federation) Core Competencies, RSPH (Royal Society of Public Health) and FPH (Faculty of Public Health). Our courses are shaped by the value of experience and having a pragmatic approach to facilitation, behaviour change and empowerment.
We offer a range of expert-led mental health and suicide prevention courses designed for schools, workplaces, and communities.
Courses are interactive, trauma-informed, and tailored to your group’s needs — helping you make a difference when it matters most.
Empowera’s Coaching and Mentoring Programmes are evidence-based initiatives designed for Public Health Professionals across all levels and domains. We support individuals through a coaching-led approach that integrates the mental, emotional, and physical aspects of professional and personal development.
Our methods are grounded in the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Core Competencies and aligned with the standards of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and the Faculty of Public Health (FPH). Every element reflects a pragmatic, experience-led ethos that values real-world application, reflective practice, and the transformative power of guided personal growth.
In addition to individual development, we train Public Health professionals to develop their own coaching and mentoring skills, building internal capacity across the sector. We also offer Group Coaching for Public Health teams, fostering collective growth, collaboration, and resilience within organisational settings.
Empowera offers comprehensive Needs Assessments across the full spectrum of Public Health domains - with a specialism in mental health needs assessments and wider Health Needs Assessment support for communities. Our approach is rooted in data, lived experience, and equity, ensuring that our assessments provide meaningful insight and actionable recommendations.
We also deliver robust Service Evaluations, helping organisations understand impact, improve delivery, and drive continuous improvement.
We’ve proudly developed needs assessments and evaluations for a range of partners, with our specialist team of associates.
Raj and her associates were a pleasure to work with. They were talented, people centred, knowledgeable and presented well. They delivered us an excellent needs assessment and engagement with our stakeholders was a real strength. We would certainly work with Raj again.
Jessica Mookherjee – Public Health Consultant @Kent County Council
I approached Raj to develop and pilot two different workshops to support public health practitioners with portfolio development. The workshops required were for two different audiences and were for online delivery. The workshops she developed evaluated well and have become a staple aspect of the UKPHR practitioner programmes in three regions.
Alix Sheppard – UKPHR Practitioner Registration Scheme Coordinator, Director @Health Talks Ltd
Working with Raj was a brilliant and rewarding experience. She is an exceptionally professional, ambitious, and creative consultant with expertise in public health, project management, and writing needs assessments. Supporting her with data analysis was both easy and enjoyable thanks to her clear vision and collaborative approach.
Raj welcomed creative input and was open to exploring innovative methods such as visual storytelling and producing accessible, user-friendly reports. Her management style is well-organised and friendly, offering space for independent work while maintaining clear direction and support.
Her ability to build strong relationships and connect talented teams is a testament to her interpersonal skills and leadership. I would highly recommend Raj to anyone seeking a thoughtful, dynamic, and results-driven collaborator.
GA – Data Analyst
The session was great, really informative and interactive. I feel it was delivered in a way that also catered to all learning skills. It’s supported my knowledge and confidence around mentoring.
The sessions were relaxed and enabled contributions from everyone and points to be deliver from the slides to engage in conversation rather than teaching as such.
Great facilitation of the session. Very knowledgeable and approachable facilitator. The content was helpful and made me reflect in other scenarios outside UKPHR.
Raj was very engaging and encouraged a quiet group to contribute using her own experience and knowledge of mentoring and coaching to aid conversations.
A really well facilitated and organised session. Very useful and bountiful in terms of learning and sharing. What a great job Raj did.
Really useful conversations to help frame what the mentoring process for supporting someone through UKPHR needs to look like. It was absolutely the expertise of the facilitator and the willingness of the attendees to share that helped us to reflect on how we can best support this process.
I enjoyed the sessions as it is not very often I can sit back and reflect. This is a well serving course and I would recommend practitioners to sign up at the earliest availability of their journey (or midway for that moral support).
I found the coaching session really useful. It would be useful for other areas of my study/practice to refer back to. Raj the facilitator was very clear, concise and very understanding and supportive.
