What if safety was the missing link?
Hi! I'm Adina Dinu - a former HR leader and trauma survivor turned trauma-informed coach, consultant and trainer based in London, UK. I’m so glad that you’re here!
​Whether you arrived here by chance, curiosity, or a personal connection to trauma, I hope your visit on this website sparks fresh thinking about leadership, performance, and wellbeing, and inspires you to embrace a more trauma-aware perspective on life and work.
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Trauma At Work is my project committed to advancing the fast-evolving science of trauma, shifting perceptions, and applying both research and lived experience to help individuals and organisations navigate adversity, and thrive. Whether you're directly impacted or supporting others, you're welcome here.
My credentials
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20+ years of leadership, career development and recruitment experience with Renault, Vodafone, Pandora and KPMG
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Advisory Panel member for Survivors Voices, an organisation that turns the pain of abuse into power through peer support, activism, training, research and publishing
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Currently enrolled in the Traumatic Stress Studies Certificate Program by the reputable Trauma Research Foundation
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Certified NeuroMindfulness® Coach Practitioner by The NeuroMindfulness Institute
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M.Sc. in HR Management, B.A. in Psychology.
The Case for Trauma Informed Workplaces
Trauma isn’t just a personal issue—it’s a workplace issue.
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Whether it stems from childhood adversity, systemic injustice, workplace bullying, burnout, or sudden loss, trauma is a common experience that shapes how people think, feel, and behave. Its impact reaches into every area of life including work, where it influences how we relate, lead, and contribute.
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Yet most organisations remain unequipped to recognise the impact of trauma, let alone respond to it with skill and compassion. The result? Misunderstood behaviours, missed opportunities, and environments that unintentionally perpetuate harm.
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Trauma At Work exists to change that.​​​
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I help HR and business leaders build emotionally safe, resilient, and high performing teams by translating trauma science into practical work tools and strategies. My approach is grounded in research, lived experience, and a commitment to honour each person's unique story.
Here’s what we already know, and why becoming trauma-informed may be the game-changing evolution to your leadership style and organisational culture:
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Trauma is more common than we think. More than half of us experience at least one traumatic experience in our lifetime. About one third of people go on to develop post-traumatic symptoms like hypervigilance, heightened emotional reactivity, depression, or a sense of detachment. Women and minority groups are affected more than others.
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Trauma can have a powerful - and often invisible to the untrained eye - impact on our self beliefs, emotional and behavioural patterns, attention, cognition, sensory processing, levels of energy, quality of sleep, and more. Trauma informed practice has the potential to remove many workplace physical and mental health issues, performance blockers, and causes of team dysfunction that do not respond to more established interventions.
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Trauma can disguise as perfectionism, overachievement, withdrawal, overwork, conflict, or chronic stress. Without awareness, these patterns in the workplace are often misjudged, pathologized, and mismanaged by everyone involved.
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Better physical and mental health, higher job satisfaction, more resilience.
Staff retention, engagement, productivity, innovation, embracing change and more
Trauma informed practice centres on employee safety, trust, and empowerment.
Better physical and mental health, higher job satisfaction, more resilience.
In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, trauma-informed practice is a strategic advantage, and a pathway to higher trust, resilience, and innovation across your teams.
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If you're a business or HR leader questioning whether your current toolkit is enough for the challenges you're navigating now, or the ones at the horizon, let's talk.
The Time for Self-Led Transformation
Trauma-informed workplaces are essential, but they’re only part of the equation.
If you’re someone who’s lived through adversity, you probably already know how frustrating and limiting it is to wait for others to understand, accommodate, or change. It may not be fair, but often workplaces lack the insights, skills, and priorities required to address the complex layers of individual and collective trauma their employees carry.
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The good news is, you don’t have to wait for your manager or HR department to “get it” and do the right thing. You don't have to find the perfect environment for your potential to finally flourish. You can build the mindset, tools, language, and regulation skills that enable you to chart your own course, and navigate trauma-blind workplaces effectively.
In practice that could mean:
Learning to recognise what’s happening inside you, so you can respond with clarity and self-compassion instead of confusion, emotional distress, or shame
Mapping out the workplace triggers that undermine your energy and performance, and putting in place strategies for neutralising them
Finding support in other survivors who are navigating similar experiences and challenges at work
Strengthening your nervous system awareness, regulation skills and and relational capabilities that will serve you in any environment
Choosing to lead yourself when others aren’t leading well enough.
There are things that you can do to reclaim your power. Trauma At Work provides coaching, workshops and digital solutions created first and foremost for people impacted by trauma, so they can restore their capacity to shape their own careers and experience at work. If you’re navigating a difficult workplace, preparing for a role that feels overwhelming, or simply trying to feel more like yourself, I'm here to support you.