ABOUT BEYOND THRIVE
A consultancy built around
how change actually happens.
Beyond Thrive exists to help families, professionals, providers and commissioners see, understand and change the conditions shaping outcomes for people with complex needs—so that support becomes more consistent, more effective and less reliant on restriction.
THE PERSON BEHIND BEYOND THRIVE
David Corcoran
Chartered Psychologist · Founder and Director, Beyond Thrive
David Corcoran is a Chartered Psychologist and the founder of Beyond Thrive. From 2014 to 2025, he founded and led I Support Behaviour, a specialist behaviour support consultancy commissioned by Integrated Care Boards, local authorities and provider organisations across London, surrounding counties and further afield, including Ireland and the Isle of Man.
Since the early implementation of Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews, David has served on several hundred review panels as an Independent Clinical Reviewer and, for three years, as an Independent Chair. This work included reviewing support for children, young people and adults at risk of admission or experiencing prolonged inpatient care, including people who had spent many years in hospital and seclusion.
David’s professional practice has encompassed the completion and supervision of hundreds of functional behaviour assessments, alongside commissioned work with Integrated Care Boards focused on preventing inpatient admission and enabling discharge from hospital. At service and system level, he has worked with NHS England on managing complexity and with Integrated Care Boards and provider organisations to develop and embed organisation-wide Positive Behaviour Support, including governance, monitoring and evaluation frameworks designed to support sustained implementation without ongoing external oversight.
Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), British Psychological Society
MSc Clinical Neuroscience
PGDip Behaviour Analysis
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Former lecturer and senior lecturer in psychology
More than 30 years across NHS, local authority, education and provider contexts
Specialist in implementation, organisational change and complex support
WHY BEYOND THRIVE EXISTS
The gap is not usually knowledge.
It is the distance between intention and what is consistently delivered in practice.
Across health, education and social care, the same pattern repeats. Assessments are completed. Recommendations are written. Training is delivered. Good people work hard. Yet the gap between intention and everyday practice often remains.
Beyond Thrive was created to focus on what prevents good intentions becoming consistent practice—not to add more guidance where plenty already exists, but to work alongside the people involved to identify and address the barriers to progress.
HOW THE WORK IS APPROACHED
Problem-led. Conditions-focused.
Designed for real life.
Beyond Thrive does not start with a pre-defined package. Work begins with the problem as it actually presents — a person whose situation is not improving, a service where practice is inconsistent, a decision that needs a clearer basis. The work is always grounded in understanding what is happening and why, before considering what should change.
Solutions are developed with implementation in mind. A recommendation that cannot be followed under real working conditions does not change outcomes. The focus is on what can be understood, followed and sustained — by the people who will actually deliver it.