SOMA IGNITE.

About SOMA Ignite

Developing the human capacity behind performance.

SOMA Ignite is a leadership and human capacity consultancy built around a simple question: what helps more of what people are capable of remain available under the conditions in which they actually work?

Built from inside organisations — and from the stage, screen and rehearsal room.

The thesis

Capability is not the same as capacity.

Capability is what somebody knows, can do or has the potential to do. Capacity is how much of that remains accessible under the conditions they are actually facing. When performance changes under pressure, the capability hasn't disappeared. Access has changed.

Somatic intelligence is our differentiator, not our product category.

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The founders

Built from inside organisations — and from the stage, screen and rehearsal room.

Jennifer de Chickera

From organisational development to whole-human development.

Jennifer brings 18 years of experience across HR, leadership, learning, talent, organisational development, culture, inclusion and change in complex global organisations.

Her background combines organisational strategy, leadership development, executive coaching, assessment and behavioural development with an expanding whole-human practice.

Professional + leadership

  • MCIPD
  • Master's in Human Resources
  • Executive Coach
  • Korn Ferry Leadership Assessment Coach
  • Insights Discovery® Practitioner
  • British Psychological Society Level A + Level B trained

Somatic + whole-human

  • Somatic Breathwork Facilitator
  • Meditation + Regulation Teacher
  • Somatic CoachingICF pathway — in training
  • Trauma-Informed Breathwork FacilitationIn training
  • Trauma-Informed SAH MethodIn training
  • Functional Medicine Health CoachCandidate

Jennifer's work on human capacity is also informed by lived experience of continuing to live and work with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis described as incurable. She has spoken internationally on resilience and designed organisational resilience work recognised within the British wellbeing sector, using validated measures including the Perceived Stress Scale in programme evaluation.

Ben Murray-Watson

From performance to presence.

Ben brings more than two decades across acting, producing, screenwriting, storytelling, commercial production and creative performance.

His experience spans screen and branded production, including work with premium international brands, alongside somatic breathwork and facilitation.

The rehearsal room

  • Actors practise.
  • They experiment.
  • They listen.
  • They respond.
  • They receive direction.
  • They adapt.
  • They try again.

Knowing → Rehearsing → Experiencing → Adapting

SOMA is designed to grow beyond its founders, bringing in appropriately qualified specialist expertise where a client challenge genuinely benefits from it.

Wider impact

Commercial value that widens access.

SOMA Ignite works with organisations able to invest in high-quality human development, and uses the success of the business to widen access to it.

Inclusive by design

Business value. Human value. Social value.

A developing body of thinking

Evidence-informed. Honest about what's still developing.

High performance without human depletion.
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Our north star

High performance
without human
depletion.

Work will keep changing. So will the demands placed on humans. The opportunity is to develop capability, capacity and the conditions that allow both to thrive.

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