About Us
Ania Sharwood, Founder, Coach & Consultant
With over 20 years of experience across sectors including nature conservation, social impact, and diversity, equity & inclusion, I help people in purpose-led fields simplify and realign their work. This creates space to reconnect with their authentic selves and uncover the strengths already present. (More about my background further down).
I have a particular passion for supporting people in their mid- and later-career chapters — those seeking a deeper maturity, renewal, and the desire to make their work feel meaningful again.
Trained in approaches that blend narrative insight, psychological depth, and systemic awareness, I believe these times are calling for deep resilience and self-compassion as we hold the line for building a better world.
Mariana Vieira da Rocha, Co-facilitator & Assistant
I support the development of programmes, co-facilitate in our workshops, and make sure everything runs smoothly for our clients. I think there’s so much value in look at our own role in creating change - we just don’t make enough time to stop and really understand the impact we can make, and the value we bring to the world. I also share my own experience with participants as a programme alumna.
Finn, Mindfulness Guide & Time Keeper
My human often asks me what I think. I usually respond by simplifying the issue: is this about food, walks, or play? Let’s focus on what matters most.
Background Founder
Ania Sharwood - Impact Sweet Spot™ Coach, Songwriter and Animal Adorer.
The first time I felt the weight of the world, I was eleven - learning about black rain, the Gulf War and the Exxon Valdez oil spill. I remember feeling sadness and fear: How can they do this to our planet? From that moment, I knew I would dedicate my life to making things better.
After studying Zoology at the University of Glasgow, I began my career in conservation and animal welfare, working in fundraising, communications, and campaigning. I always loved the work, but I often felt like our message wasn’t landing. We were doing everything we could, and still the change wasn’t happening fast enough.
I felt disconnected from myself, my impact, and from the people I was trying to reach.
So I widened the lens. I worked across human rights, DEI, and sustainability. I got certified in Deep Democracy, Narrative Coaching, Clinical Hypnosis, learned the Enneagram of Fixation, trained in mindfulness, Byron Katie’s The Work, and the R.A.I.N. method through Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield. I also co-founded a training agency in strategic storytelling for positive impact. I learned how change happens, and how it doesn’t.
Into My Impact Sweet Spot…
Alongside this work, I found myself drawn to a deeper inquiry—less about goals and strategies, and more about direct experience. Teachings such as Ramana Maharshi’s simple question, “Who am I?”, became a backdrop to how I show up in my work. I recognise that beneath all roles, narratives, and striving, there is something already here—whole and expansive. This perspective helps me stay centred and humble in supporting others in their discovery, and on their sometimes difficult paths.
Since a young age, I have been singing and songwriting, which became my creative outlet rather than my professional path. I notice this too informs how I work, for example by approaching certain topics philosophically, or elevating creativity in others.
I live in Edinburgh, Scotland. Like many people, I move through the world with attention to what’s unfolding—and in places, collapsing—around us. I take much of my anchoring from being in nature and close to animals, and from living and eating in a way that honours my values as best I can, while recognising that I am fully part of the systems I live within.
The Impact Sweet Spot™ grew out of this whole journey: a desire to feel both effective and to stop fighting within myself—not driven by self-doubt and the need to fix everything. I gained so much by rediscovering my innate talents, reconnecting with what I truly care about, and focusing my energy on those who share that mission—not the ones who don’t.
I don’t believe change starts by doing more. It starts by appreciating what’s already within us, grieving what we cannot achieve, and showing up for what is ours to do.
When you face what you cannot change, you become great at changing what you can.
Clients Across Sectors - Initiatives Focused on Progressive Change:
