Welcome to Silva Associates
We provide tailored coaching and consulting services for clients to support their career and business success. We believe that with positive advice and support, everyone can achieve great things. With specialist knowledge, experience and techniques we support clients and all those we work with to set and progress their goals.
Purposeful work, considering social and community impact to support sustainable business is our goal.
For the past 15 years we have provided our clients with focused support in:
- Career coaching for early careers and experienced professionals.
- Business coaching and mentoring with specialist advice in setting up, and managing businessess and self employment.
- Mentoring for entrepreneurs and young people at universities and other organisations including Wiseup Networks and the Prince's Trust.
- Business consulting including sustainability advisory and training services, business strategy and transformation, employee engagement and assessmemt methodologies.
- Technology consulting and management consulting services.
Nayanee Silva FCA FCMI FRSA
Founder & Managing Partner
Nayanee Silva is a business professional with over 30 years of finance, management and consulting experience. Following a corporate career in the management consulting and finance sector, she has founded businesses to provide mentoring, educational consulting and business consulting services to companies and individuals. Nayanee is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and certified Life Coach with varied experience in business, coaching and academia, bringing expertise in several areas to advise and support individuals and companies.
Nayanee is a business mentor for SMEs and entrepreneurs, including the Surrey Women's Entrepreneurship Network (SWEN) and a career mentor for the Prince's Trust and other organisations. Her philanthropic work as the Founding President of The Aspire Community Foundation involves engaging in welfare projects for rural poverty alleviation, skill development, educational programmes and vocational training for capacity building and sustainable development in Sri Lanka.
Nayanee is currently completing a PhD in business sustainability at the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey. The research study involves working with several businesses in the Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire areas. The Sustainable Business Project measures the sustainability performance of organisations and provides free sustainability assessments to participating companies.
Nayanee is a member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) and Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS). She is a member of the UK Energy Research Council (UKERC) community and the Zero Emissions Enterprise (ZEE) Network - a group of international researchers supporting the decarbonisation of SMEs.