The Team

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Rachel Wright – Founder/Director and Lead Trainer

Rachel is a qualified nurse, married to a GP and the parent of a young man with complex neurodisability. She’s the author of two books including her memoir The Skies I’m Under, award winning blogger and host of the popular The Skies We’re Under Podcast.

Rachel is an NHS Peer Leader, Personalised Care Ambassador and her course on “Communication and Co-production” was finalist in HSJ Best Educational Programme for the NHS 2023.

She develops CPD-certified training on communication and effective collaboration to delegates around the world across health, social care and SEND. She’s passionate about lived experience being at the heart of meaningful change using evidence and actionable next steps. She is also passionate about crisps. Many crisps.

Rebekah McKinley – Operations Manager

Rebekah joined Born at the Right Time in 2020. Prior to this, having graduated from Keele University with a master’s degree in Law, she began a career in local government administration, dabbled in property management and more recently spent time looking after three children, a dog and a husband.

Rebekah enjoys swimming, sewing and crocheting. ‘Made by Rebekah’ creations are available on request!

Michelle Wright – Podcast Production and Business Development Officer

With over two decades of experience working in and for numerous organisations across the public sector, including the NHS, local government and most recently the education sector, Michelle supports the rest of the Born at the Right Time team to be their brilliant, super-productive selves.

Michelle has Crohn’s disease, and believes in talking openly about living with chronic illness and/or hidden disabilities. She enjoys escapism to the fictional locations of Ambridge (Home of the Archers), a galaxy far away and any one of the many multiverses within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the real world she lives with three wonderful boys: one adult, one child, and one of the canine variety. She enjoys long walks with them, especially if they involve stopping for coffee and/or a pint of bitter.

Shurron Rosales – Trainer and Inclusion Specialist

With 15 years of experience in the charity sector, including roles at Macmillan Cancer Support and Breast Cancer Now, Shurron Rosales combines professional expertise with rich lived experience as an Inclusion Specialist. She delivers training for Born at the Right Time, speaks at conferences, and consults with organisations on fostering inclusion and belonging. Her work is shaped by her lived experiences—her South Asian heritage, mental health challenges, grief, and raising multiracial children.

As a proud unpaid carer for her Disabled son, Shurron is passionate about confronting and dismantling ableism, and believes deeply in Disability Justice.

Outside of work, she enjoys baking, painting, and having dance parties with her husband and kids in the living room.

Joanna Holmes – Trainer and Partnership Development Officer

Jo brings her lived experience as a parent/carer to Born at the Right Time. She has also worked as a Speech and Language Therapist and in 2014 completed an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice. It’s debatable, and a constant source of reflection, whether these things helped or hindered her in her life as a parent carer for a child with complex disabilities. Since 2020 she has shared her experiences of supporting her daughter’s communication through her blog and social media platforms Mummy vs AAC for which she won ‘The Anthony Hewson Make A Difference Award’ at the AAC Awards in 2023.

She’s absolutely passionate about everyone having interactions and conversations where they feel valued and supported.

Fun stuff for Jo includes running (if you can call it that), reading, listening to podcasts (The Skies We’re Under obviously but also anything about history) and being a Girlguiding volunteer with her local Rainbow unit.