I didn’t want to work in an environment where dire situations = more excitement; and that’s often how it was in a newsroom.

I didn’t want to work shifts and lead a life with little sleep and even less of a social life.

I wanted positivity and more control over life outside work.

And I knew I was the only person who could create a working life I loved.

So I took a chance on myself and made a pivot.

I trained to be a coach back when coaching wasn’t so well known and I took those coaching tools to the NHS to work with smokers who wanted to quit.

It wasn’t an easy move. 

I had to convince the right people to take a chance on me and I managed to get the role, even without the ‘required’ Public Health Masters degree or a background in healthcare.

I helped hundreds of people through that programme and knew that motivating others to change was exactly where I belonged.

I developed as a trainer at the NHS, taking pharmacists, doctors and nurses through a nationally recognised training programme.

After leaving the NHS, I took the jump into entrepreneurship and went through my ‘experimental stage’ where I worked a portfolio career as a consultant, trainer and coach.

I even ran a domestic cleaning business, employing a team of cleaners to go out into North West London cleaning homes (that one did not play to my strengths).

It was coaching and training that I loved.

I’d noticed that what was stopping lots of people from achieving success was a lack of confidence so I began focussing on confidence coaching and training.

This led me to freelance for a law school’s careers service, helping students overcome confidence issues.

It was here I fell in love with career coaching and I started working in the field and went on to work with several universities as a career coach.

Today, I’m an experienced, qualified and accredited coach (ICF, ACC) with working as an Executive Coach and Career Coach.

Several years ago, I noticed a gap in provision in my workplace, Henley Business School, and built a case for developing professional development coaching and training to the senior leaders studying MBA and Senior Leader degree apprenticeships.

I effectively persuaded my manager that I was the right person to develop this part of the business and I successfully transitioned into that role, building out coaching and professional development training programmes. And I started building out my own business too.

I have been dedicated to helping senior leaders take control of their working lives ever since and have coached hundreds of clients who are dealing with the challenges of leadership in uncertain and ever-changing organisations.

I am in my element working with ambitious leaders who are driven to level up in their careers, develop their leadership capabilities and deliver for their teams and organisations. 

Even when juggling the competing time demands of children, family, challenging work lives and busy social lives or study, these leaders thrive.

By working with me my clients have:

• •  Increased self-awareness, and become more effective in role performance

• •  Developed leadership resilience and enhanced decision making

• •  Become more confident in inspiring and influencing others

• •  Succeeded in getting the promotions they’ve gone for