About us
Who we are
We are experienced academics offering peak performance training and group experiences to forward-thinking researchers anywhere in the world.
We are certified by and affiliated to some of the world’s leading training organisations.
Ramona Britto
PhD, Coordinator
Ramona founded First Principles during the first Wellcome Genome Startup School after recognizing the enormous potential for specialist training and coaching in helping scientists make the leap to entrepreneurship. In 2022, she decided to join forces with other academic coaches to develop a common framework and to reach out to scientists in all stages of career growth both within and outside academia.
Ramona trained with the Flow Research Collective, the world's leading peak performance research and training organisation. Prior to this, she worked as a curator at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Cambridge, UK from 2012 to 2021. Her background also includes a four-year research role in Rennes, France and at a bioscience startup in Bangalore, India.
She lives with her partner and children in the countryside around Cambridge.
Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them learn rather than teaching them.
Sir John Whitmore