Meet the team

Naturally High Performance was founded by Ged and Nikki Welch, Edinburgh-based transformative coaches. Their mission is it to wake people up to their own greatness and help them see that they have the capacity to affect change and impact, regardless of who they are. By freeing individuals from the doubt of their own capacity to perform they, and the organisations they work in, flourish and thrive.

Our clients range from multi-national manufacturing organisations to SMEs, founder led businesses and charities. We often work across the executive, management and front-line leadership teams with a view to creating the resource within the organisation to perpetuate this understanding.

Ged Welch, Adventurer

Ged has held MD, Chair and board roles in SME and PLC businesses, most notably Diageo, Glenmorangie and William Grants.

He has been inspired throughout his career by seeing how waking people up to their own potential is a catalyst for high performance, whatever the type of organisation. In Naturally High Performance he has found a simplicity and understanding of the human mind that is universal to everyone.

Contact Ged
ged@naturallyhighperformance.co.uk

Nikki Welch, Explorer

Nikki was general manager of a wine business before founding her own creative and digital ventures in wine and hospitality.

She loves being able to see the impact and application of Naturally High Performance in her own ventures, to help her share it more clearly with others in theirs. For her, understanding the nature of the human operating system was the equivalent of getting waterproof feathers, the 'weather' just rolls off!

Contact Nikki
nikki@naturallyhighperformance.co.uk

Abbey Welch, Realiser

Abbey joined our team in September 2020 having graduated from Edinburgh Napier with a BSc (Hons) in Animal Biology. She was always curious of what we did here at Naturally High Performance and came on board with our team to bring creative input and form to many of the ideas and concepts that we explore.

Since then, she has developed a deep understanding of Naturally High Performance and is passionate about sharing it with others by co-creating programmes, curating online resources and through coaching & workshops.

For her, seeing how her mind really works has awakened her to see infinite potential and opportunity to be and do anything she puts her mind to!

Contact Abbey
abbey@naturallyhighperformance.co.uk

Associates

Marie Knight, Guide

Marie worked for 20+ years in sales, buying and senior management roles in the UK wine industry. She discovered Naturally High Performance when she was ready for a change of career and joined our Pause programme to help her work out her ‘what next?’

Those 2 days turned into a 3-year journey exploring the power of understanding the human operating system and seeing first-hand how it could improve performance and wellbeing at the same time.

Marie now works with us as an associate, combining her commercial experience with delivering tailored workshops that help businesses and individuals achieve their goals and operate with less stress. She loves seeing the impact this understanding can have in all aspects of people’s lives.

Contact Marie
marie@naturallyhighperformance.co.uk

Mark Dewhurst, Collaborator

Mark has worked in the corporate world for over 30 years with a number of blue-chip manufacturing businesses in a variety of senior leadership roles. Having worked with Ged over a couple of decades, for the last 8-years he has been on a learning journey, with Ged & Nikki’s mentorship, around where our experience of life comes from.

Having transitioned into running his own coaching business in 2022, he now collaborates with business clients to help them build intentional, high-performance cultures, by pointing towards the understanding of how the human operating system works.

Mark works with NHP on an associate basis, often working alongside Ged & Nikki in businesses to ensure the clients are getting the best possible support to maximise impact on individuals, teams, and the business performance.

Contact Mark
mark@simplyculture.com