Our Team

People who care about
how teams actually work

We are practitioners, not theorists. Every facilitator, coach, and curriculum designer on this team has spent years inside real organisations — navigating the awkward reality of keeping people motivated when pressure mounts.

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Yelvariariva team collaborating during a live webinar session on team motivation
6+ Years running
14 Specialists
38 Countries reached
200+ Live webinars delivered
Meet the team

The people behind
every session

From emotional resilience coaching to navigating leadership in the era of digital transformation — each person on this list brings something specific. No generalists hired to fill seats.

Freya Ohlsson

Lead Facilitator

Primary Focus

Freya runs the flagship motivation webinars. She spent eight years in HR leadership before pivoting to facilitation — and that background shows in how she handles difficult group dynamics.

Group dynamics Soft skills HR consulting

Desmond Parrish

Leadership Coach

Primary Focus

Desmond works specifically with managers navigating teams through rapid tech change. He's candid about the gap between human values and the systems organisations keep introducing.

Digital leadership Change mgmt Tech & culture

Ingrid Wexler

Curriculum Designer

Primary Focus

Ingrid builds the structure underneath every webinar. She obsesses over learning retention data and has reworked our formats several times based on actual participant outcomes.

Learning design Retention research UX writing

Tobias Krell

Resilience Specialist

Primary Focus

Tobias leads our resilience sessions — the ones people often say they needed six months ago. His approach to emotional resilience and soft skills development is practical, not fluffy.

Resilience Burnout prevention Emotional skills

Astrid Nylund

Community Manager

Primary Focus

Astrid keeps the post-webinar community alive between sessions. She runs the async Q&A threads and makes sure quieter participants don't fall through the cracks.

Community building Async comms Participant care

Rory Barclay

Platform & Tech Lead

Primary Focus

Rory handles the technical side of live broadcasts — stream stability, interactive tools, fallback systems. When a webinar runs without a hitch, that's usually him working in the background.

Live streaming Broadcast tech Platform ops

Balancing technology and human values

We design every session with real human attention in mind — no feature overload, just what actually helps people connect and learn.

Small enough to stay accountable

We are not a faceless platform. You can reach an actual team member before, during, and after any session — and they'll know who you are.

Honest about what works

We update content when evidence changes. If a topic hasn't produced useful outcomes for participants, we pull it — not keep it running because it fills a slot.