Avril Grant

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ABOUT AVRIL GRANT

Not many young mothers would quit their job in the midst of a recession to help people realise their potential and visions, or even think to enter a prison and work with offenders and change the course of their lives, but Avril has done that and with great success.Avril formed her organisation AVision for Empowerment in 2012, a social enterprise which delivers holistic empowerment interventions that supports people to overcome personal challenges so they can achieve sustainable career success. Avril and her teams work within the Criminal Justice Sector delivering bespoke accredited empowerment courses to over 26 prisons across the UK in partnership with many large prime organisations, transforming attitudes and leading over delegates including those with serious violence convictions, along the road to desistence and to achieve long term employment and entrepreneurship.Avril is a firm believer that everyone has the ability to achieve success regardless of their past. As a passionate powerhouse for change, Avril’s life’s mission is to tackle inequality and to empower people by igniting self-belief, increasing mental health resilience and inspiring people to achieve sustainable career success. Having overcome extreme racial discrimination and adversity growing up, her robust belief in the potential of all people and importance of self-belief has even led her to deliver a TEDx talk on ‘Overcoming Fear and Uncertainty’. As part of this she describes her life\'s journey of adversity (which includes being racially attacked and shot at, at 10 years old) and goes on to provide techniques on how she developed the \'bullet-proof\' mindset to overcome fear and to thrive. As a Master NLP and Life coach, Avril is a champion for change supporting mental health resilience and people achieving their best performance so they may live a life they can be truly proud of.Avril has worked with individuals, teams and organisations and delivers dynamic training that achieves objectives and inspires lasting change. Her love for human potential has led her to design and deliver bespoke training for various companies in different sectors. Attending her workshops and accredited programmes inspires others to believe in themselves, overcome challenges and to pluck up the courage to improve personal performance and take action. She believes it is vital for individuals to find their own passion and pathway and it starts with having a vision to succeed.