Meet our Rebel Team
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Debbie Danon | she/her
Founder, Lead Coach & Facilitator
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Adéwale Adéniji | he/him
Associate Coach
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Tommy Ross-Williams | they/them
Associate Facilitator
Debbie Danon | she/her
Founder, Lead Coach & Facilitator
Debbie is a certified Integral Coach and inclusive leadership facilitator, born in the UK to Turkish-Jewish parents. With 18+ years experience in NGOs, corporate leadership development and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, she founded Rebel Leadership as a coaching practice to serve change-making organisations in 2021.
In a world where burnout is too common among activists and change-makers, Debbie is passionate about enabling leaders to build self- and collective-care practices that stick, and create cultures of flourishing - so they and their teams can feel fully resourced to navigate even the most complex challenges.
Debbie’s work with Rebel Leadership has supported the holistic development of over 250 leaders at organisations including Amnesty International, Avanade, Mermaids, Unifrog and International Alert.
Justice and liberation principles are woven into everything Debbie does. Her approach is supported by a deep understanding of somatics (body work) and anti-oppressive practice. She has also served as Adjunct Faculty for Thirdspace, the accredited school for Integral Coaching in the UK.
Clients have recognised Debbie for her ‘deepest emotional intelligence’, ‘extensive knowledge’ and ‘total unshockability.’ For her own part, Debbie describes her life as a commitment to healing, liberation and love.
Adéwale Adéniji | he/him
Associate Coach
Adéwale is a certified Coach who is well versed in cultivating relationships with clients, putting them at ease and inviting them to enter a wholehearted space that facilitates deepened awareness and transformation. He is a Certified Daring Way™ and Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, programmes based on the research of Dr Brené Brown.
Adéwale brings a presence-based approach to his coaching practice, which includes mindfulness and embodied centering, creativity and systemic mapping. He is passionate about making the implicit explicit and exploring how that plays out personally, relationally and systemically. As a practitioner he is keen on working with clients to cultivate the necessary habits for emotional regulation and relational hygiene.
Adéwale is a board member of the Centre for Courage and Renewal, a US based not-for-profit, that works to help people come alive with a renewed sense of purpose, build trustworthy relationships, and cultivate the courage to making a difference within themselves, their work, and the world.
Tommy Ross-Williams | they/them
Associate Facilitator
Tommy (they/them) has over 10 years of experience in social justice work and was the Creative Director of The Advocacy Academy, focussing on the intersection of art and activism. They are an artist, intimacy director, community organiser and facilitator.
Their facilitation experience spans a variety of roles from being a lead trainer on NEON's flagship programme Movement Builders, to working with grassroots activist organisations to develop their strategy, and creating safer spaces initiatives for major arts organisations. Their focus as a facilitator is often centred around practices of visioning, care, allyship, youth engagement and co-creation.
They write and talk about these issues in various settings, including as a contributor to the Huffington Post, BBC Radio4 and a frequent panellist at WOW Festivals.
Their co-authored play, My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar, is published by Bloomsbury and they are a screenwriter with BBC Writers.