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Émergente is a business and creative studio led by Ella Cotterell, partnering with women-led teams, founders, and freelancers who see business as a site for cultural and spiritual evolution.

How We Can Help

Serving emerging women-led organisations and founders in the impact & sustainability sectors 𖦹

Serving emerging women-led organisations and founders in the impact & sustainability sectors 𖦹

(01) Mission

We believe that how a business operates is inseparable from what it creates, and that meaningful work arises from teams grounded in both excellence and resonance.

At Émergente, we translate ecological, feminist, and psychological theory into embodied action, helping founders and teams build businesses, programs, products, and services grounded in integrity. We offer operational leadership and strategic implementation, bringing structure to visionary ideas and transforming them into systems that can sustain true impact.

Beyond our consulting and management work, Émergente also serves as a creative and intellectual home for those who exist between worlds, the spiritual and the entrepreneurial, the personal and the collective. Through mentoring, gatherings, and residencies, we nurture a community of entrepreneurs and creatives exploring new ways to live, lead, and work. Together, we experiment with what it means to build in alignment with our bodies, values, and collective futures.

Every collaboration is grounded in the Émergente framework: a commitment to how we build. We centre embodiment as the foundation for how we experience, lead, and serve in professional ecosystems. Ultimately, Émergente is a studio for nurturing new models of living and working into being.

Core

(02)

Values

  • We honour the body as equal to the mind. Our systems, structures, and ways of working are designed to respect the body’s natural capacity, rhythm, and intelligence.

  • We believe everyone deserves equal opportunity, fair recognition, and safety in the places they live and work. We will never engage in or enable exploitative labour practices, and we believe good work should always be paid well.

  • We design businesses and projects with an understanding that everything is interconnected, from our digital footprints to the communities we serve. Sustainability is not optional, it is a shared responsibility that informs every decision we make.

  • Our approach blends spiritual and psychological insight with grounded strategy, inviting a way of leading that is intuitive, inclusive, and regenerative. We value feminine principles such as receptivity, empathy, collaboration, and collective care, as powerful forces for building thriving teams and systems.

  • We believe work should feel nourishing and intentional, never extractive or depleting. Our approach recognises that true productivity emerges from balance. We design ways of working that make space for rest, play, and joy, trusting that when we work in alignment with our nature, our body of work unfolds with greater depth. 

  • Creativity is a central tenet of a well-lived life. We see creativity as the thread that weaves purpose, beauty, and change through our work. It is both process and philosophy, a continual act of noticing, refining, and tending to what wants to come alive.

(03)

Services Snapshot

Émergente was founded to meet a growing gap in the impact and sustainability sectors: a need for business support that merges excellence with embodiment. Our market is defined by ethos, not industry, serving leaders who value purposeful design and impact-led models.

Émergente positions itself within this expanding ecosystem of leaders reimagining how work, wellbeing and impact coexist.

  • All retainer support is tailored to your current growth stage, needs, and strategic priorities. Services are delivered according to your selected retainer tier and available monthly capacity.

Ongoing Retainers

  • Selected projects spanning operations, systems design, programme management, and creative direction.

Custom Projects

  • Retreats and gatherings work best when you can be fully in them. We handle the structure, timing, and logistics so you can hold the experience itself.

Events & Retreat Planning

  • A co-created space designed to support freelancers and creatives in rebuilding your business foundations, strengthening your systems and operations, and designing offerings that align with your natural gifts, values, and desired way of living.

Seasonal Mentoring

About the Founder

That’s Me

Ella Cotterell is the founder of Émergente, a business and creative studio working with women-led founders, teams, and organisations who view business as a site for cultural and spiritual evolution.

With a first-class honours degree in Psychology and extensive experience across startups and government programmes, Ella bridges behavioural science with strategic operations. Her background in rehabilitation, embodiment coaching, and trauma-informed practice shapes her approach to leadership, grounded in both evidence-based approaches and somatic intelligence.

Her work integrates ecological, feminist, and psychological frameworks to help mission-driven organisations design structures that are as effective as they are human.

Ella is also a writer and facilitator whose practice explores identity, social politics, and systems change. Awarded the Peace Psychology Prize for her thesis in 2018, she continues to explore how empathy, activism, and sytems can coexist in building sustainable futures for women and their communities. 

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