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The Personal Mastery Lab

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Meet our founder

Saffron Baggallay is the founder, owner, and CEO of the Personal Mastery Lab. For over 23 years she has been designing, developing, and delivering personal mastery-based leadership programmes through the lens of the enneagram.

She has always been fascinated by people. As a child, she loved observing people and figuring out what was happening beneath the surface. And even though she once thought she wanted to act and perform, she realised that she wanted to delve deeper into human behaviour and help people truly unleash their own personal power.

Today, Saffron is a profound and deeply engaging teacher, global master facilitator, leadership development coach, and keynote speaker who delivers specific learning outcomes and inspires people all across the globe. 

Her integrity, passion, innovative teaching models, accelerated learning techniques, and astounding knowledge of the enneagram, emotional intelligence (EQ), somatic healing techniques, and human behaviour create a powerfully immersive experience that has lasting effects on all those who come under her spell.

Not only is she a top International Narrative Enneagram expert, Saffron is also a human behaviourist and sociologist whose programmes are renowned for building authentic trust between leaders and teams, managing stress, creating emotional safety, and nurturing creativity, connection, and confidence.

She shows us how to thrive in an age of increasing mental illness and the sometimes-overwhelming change that AI is bringing to all industries.

Centred on self-awareness, personal development, personal leadership, personal, social, and contextual intelligence development, relationships, and employee engagement, her programmes include the enneagram-based “Personal Mastery For High Performance”, as well as “Women In LeaderHERship”, and “Self-Esteem For Leaders”.

Every programme is packed with Saffron’s unique insights, powerful universal truths, and practical tools for increased mental, emotional, and physical resilience in life and at work. 

The safe spaces she creates allow delegates to truly experience compassion and understanding for each other and for themselves, to experience authentic truth and fearless vulnerability, and to create a genuine sense of quality relationships and community.

Her core expertise includes developing high performance teams, championing team transformation, inclusion and diversity, and compassionate leadership.

Saffron's qualifications also include an International Narrative Enneagram teacher’s qualification, the embodied enneagram, a masters in identity theory, and growing qualifications in somatic healing modalities.

Her ability for leaving people inspired, engaged, and more in tune with their potential than ever before, is her way of “future-proofing” careers and businesses for us all.

We focus on transforming teams by teaching durable meta-skills that empower leaders to lead compassionately while unlocking inclusion and diversity within organisations to create
high-performing teams. 

In 2020 Saffron put her life's work online so that she could offer her courses without any geographical barriers. Alongside her are two fantastic facilitators, Lara Ellwood and Thato Belang. Their credentials and experience have added a wealth of value to The Personal Mastery Lab.

Our courses offer a unique and transformative experience that’ll help you unleash your potential and create real change in your life. 

Meet our facilitators

Saffron Baggallay

Sociologist, Expert Enneagram Coach and Master Facilitator

Saffron is a Sociologist and master enneagram facilitator & coach with an extensive experience working in corporates. She helps people discover what drives them and teaches them how to benefit from these internal drivers, enabling them to reach their highest performance.

Lara Ellwood

Mental Health Counsellor and Non-Enneagram Course Facilitator 

Lara teaches people how to better understand mental health and how to support others struggling with mental health issues. She also facilitates Saffron's Reframe Your Future (Golden EQ Toolkit) and Self-Esteem For Leaders courses, when not taught through the lens of the Enneagram.

Thato Belang

TEDx Speaker, Leadership & Authenticity Coach and Facilitator

Thato focuses on leader's authenticity to unlock their greatness; and become the truest expressions of themselves. She uses a coaching methodology that assists with and heightens self-awareness through the identification of core values that results in authentic leadership practices. 

Meet our core team

Jarred Penrose

PA & Operations Manager
Enneagram Type 8
Proven track record in optimising virtual office efficiency.
"Be stronger than what breaks you"

Lara Ellwood

Facilitator and Coordinator
Enneagram Type 8
Balancing creative vision with business objectives.
"We are here for a good time, not a long time." - Trooper

Matthew Meyer

Graphic Designer
Enneagram Type 9
Passionate about creating impactful visuals.
"Be kind to people"