Matilda Martins-Ojo MSc, PGDip, PRINCE2, RGN is an NMC-registered nurse and leadership and transformative coach who integrates evidence-based neuroscience to support women’s empowerment and emotional wellbeing. She is the visionary founder of Matilda Method Ltd, a global platform dedicated to helping women rise with clarity, confidence, and courage.
Her mission is to help women unlock the genius within and lead with purpose, authenticity, and power.
From Survival to Significance
Matilda’s story began in East London, where she became a carer for her mother at just eleven years old. Poverty, resilience, and responsibility shaped her early years, lessons that would later define her leadership philosophy.
By nineteen, she was a mother herself. But rather than letting circumstances limit her, she used them as fuel for growth. Over the years, Matilda rose through the ranks in healthcare and public health, serving in senior positions that demanded vision, courage, and compassion.
With close to a decade in formal leadership and more than two decades of lived leadership experience, Matilda embodies the balance of professional excellence and human empathy that defines transformational leadership.
Matilda Method
After 14 years of mentoring, Matilda founded Matilda Method Ltd, a leadership and empowerment company built around her signature 4-pillar framework: Mindset, Mission, Mastery, and Meaning.
Through these pillars, she helps women:
- Break free from limiting beliefs,
- Align their mission with impact,
- Build mastery in leadership and confidence, and
- Lead lives anchored in purpose and meaning.
Matilda Method programmes include:
- The Catalyst Moment (1:1 Intensive)- or women ready to rewire old thought patterns, activate calm confidence, and take intentional action.
- The 6-Week Leadership & Empowerment Programme — blending neuroscience, strategy, and storytelling to create measurable, lasting transformation.
Vision
Matilda believes leadership is not a title, it’s a transformation. Her vision is to build a global network of women leaders who are not just motivated, but mobilised, transforming clarity into strategy, and purpose into tangible impact.
She often says:
“Leadership is not about being in charge.
It’s about being in alignment.”
Credentials and Leadership Background
- Founder & CEO, Matilda Method Ltd
- BSc (Hons) in Adult Nursing – First Class
- MSc in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare
- PGDip in Public Health
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Mary Seacole NHS Leadership Programme Graduate
- Close to 10 years of formal leadership within healthcare and public health
- Over 20 years of lived leadership experience as a young carer, mentor, and advocate
- Youth Mental Health First Aid
- Qualified Mentor and Leadership Coach with formal training in Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice
- Level 3 Safeguarding Children and Adults
- 14+ years as a public speaker and youth mentor
Beyond the Title
Matilda is a catalyst for clarity, a voice for women who refuse to shrink, and a living example that leadership can be born from struggle, shaped by service, and sustained by purpose.
Her mantra is the heartbeat of everything she builds:
“Unlock the Genius in You.”