About
Surviving The Gap is programme that supports people through difficult times by providing a safe and supportive environment to develop greater awareness, learn practical skills and techniques for improving self-care, self-management and resilience.
The inspiration came from witnessing and experiencing the tough times many job seekers had in 2024, and continue to have in 2025. With our background in professional and personal development, we recognised that we were in a position to do something positive to support those who are experiencing stress, anxiety and uncertainty as they seek employment.
It’s a vicious circle – stress and anxiety impair our performance and lead to health issues, which makes it harder to function and even harder to come across well in interviews – which leads to more stress and anxiety.
So we decided to do something about it.
While experiencing the same levels of stress as everyone else, we realised that we had an edge: because of our years of experience with personal development (we have worked with some of the best facilitators in the world and travelled extensively to help deliver seminars), our training in various self-help and support techniques and our experience as coaches and mentors to businesses and individuals we had tools to handle the situation.
For individuals
Surviving The Gap provides free support for everyone who is dealing with the stresses of job seeking, or planning a change of career. Surviving The Gap for individuals.
Surviving The Gap Community
The free Surviving The Gap Community includes practical mental wellness tools and insights to help you build your resilience, while regular check-ins and workshops with recruiters help you create a fruitful job search. The Surviving The Gap Community.
For Businesses & Organisations
Surviving The Gap offers businesses flexible and low-risk access to a pool of pre-screened, motivated, and skilled talent, and employee off boarding support. For Businesses & Organisations.
Meet the team
Funke Adebusuyi MSc, BA, PGCE, MCIPD
Co-founder
Our lead coach, Funke is a passionate Learning and Organisational Development Specialist with many years’ experience in large multi-site public and voluntary sector organisations including children’s charities, local government, education establishments and the NHS.
A life, career, and relationship coach, Funke is a qualified EFT and NLP practitioner in additional to holding a BA, MSc, PGCE and being a full member of the CIPD.
Mark Anfilogoff
Co-founder
Mark is a passionate advocate for personal growth and development with over thirty years’ experience helping individuals and organisations flourish.
Mark holds a BSc in Geophysics, an MSc in Management Consultancy and Organisational Change and is a member of the Institute of Leadership. He has undertaken training in EFT and NLP and is working towards accreditation in those fields.
Join the Surviving The Gap community
Free check ins, free workshops, free community support and more…