Founder: Nina Cooke

At PengaNova, we partner with leaders and organisations to design and deliver meaningful transformation. Our approach centres on clarity, design and alignment, blending strategic thinking with practical execution to turn complexity into focused, sustainable action.

PengaNova was founded by Nina Cooke, a senior HR and transformation leader with over 20 years’ experience partnering with boards, CEOs and executive teams in complex, global and private equity-backed environments. A qualified and accredited executive coach (ICF Accredited/ILM Level 7), Nina combines deep commercial experience with structured coaching expertise, using tools such as DISC, Thomas International, SHL psychometrics and Learning Styles to translate insight into action, strengthening leadership capability, improving decision-making and accelerating performance at both individual and organisational level.

This combination underpins the way we work: integrating strategic perspective, behavioural insight and hands-on delivery to solve real business challenges.

Our work spans organisational design, global HR transformation, leadership development and large-scale change, consistently bridging strategy and execution to deliver outcomes that last.

Clients value a pragmatic, commercially grounded approach, trusted partnership and constructive challenge, delivered with pace and care. As a founder-led consultancy, we scale support around each engagement, bringing in trusted expertise where needed while maintaining senior-level involvement throughout.

A small insight behind the name: PengaNova reflects the elements that consistently shape successful organisations.

People – developing leaders and strengthening capability
Enterprise – supporting organisations to perform and grow
Navigation – helping leaders move through complexity and change
Growth – building organisations that scale sustainably
Alignment – ensuring leadership, culture and strategy work together

The “Nova” element reflects the energy of new thinking—bringing fresh perspective, clarity and momentum to leadership, culture and organisational performance.

Together, these ideas sit behind how we work: helping organisations move forward through clarity, delivery and alignment.