About
We help leaders and teams build the inner clarity, trust, and habits that make performance sustainable.
Spirited Business was founded on a simple conviction: the inner life of a leader shapes the outer life of an organization. We bring together business rigor, human depth, and relatable facilitation to help people see the patterns shaping how they lead, communicate, and show up under pressure. The result is leadership that feels more grounded, teams that work with more trust, and performance that does not depend on burnout.
Founder & Lead Practitioner
Declan Scott
FCA · MA · BSc ManagementDeclan spent the early part of his career inside the commercial world, training as a chartered accountant and working in finance and business leadership. Declan knows what it is like to achieve externally while feeling disconnected internally. That lived experience is part of what makes him relatable to high-performing leaders who are successful on paper but stretched, restless, or running on fumes.
That gap — between what the world asked of him and what he knew to be true — became the foundation for everything that followed. He left a conventional career path, did the inner work, and spent the next two plus decades building a practice at the intersection of human development and business performance. Spirited Business has been that practice for 25 years.
What makes Declan unusual in this space is the combination. He has the commercial fluency to stand in front of a skeptical CFO or a room of engineers and be taken seriously, and the human depth to create the conditions where real change happens. His Irish wit and warmth disarm even the most resistant rooms. His commercial and business background as a business advisor and entrepreneur means he speaks the language of the business. And his own journey gives him genuine credibility with the leaders he works alongside, because he has navigated the same issues.
Declan's work spans leadership assessments, facilitating team workshops, keynote engagements, and one-on-one and group coaching. He works with leaders and their teams in organizations ranging from industrial manufacturers, global energy companies, video gaming and interactive entertainment industries helping them build the awareness, trust, and habits that lift both people and results.
"Leaders who invest in themselves — who develop self-awareness, take responsibility, and lead from their authentic authority — build teams that will go through walls for them."
Declan Scott
Coach
Jennifer Albaugh
Individual Transformation & Executive CoachingJennifer Albaugh works with leaders navigating the harder, quieter work of individual transformation.
Her background is rooted in spiritual inquiry and inner development, and she brings that foundation into a coaching practice defined by depth, safety, and precision. Her work is to create the conditions where clients can access their deep wisdom, identify the patterns holding them back, and move toward a more grounded, authentic way of leading and living.
What Jennifer does well is attunement. She reads what a client needs, not just what they present, and adapts accordingly. For some that means a gentle space for honest reflection. For others it means full-throttle directness. The quality that shows up regardless is care, genuine, unhurried, and grounded in the belief that when people reconnect with their own truth, they become more creative, more responsible, and more effective.
Jennifer works in one-on-one coaching engagements with leaders and executives who are ready to go deeper than their role description and do the kind of development that actually changes how they show up.
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