Specialisms

Personal impact, gravitas and executive communication: helping leaders show up with clarity, authority and warmth in complex stakeholder environments.

Taking culture change from paper to practice: shaping the everyday behaviours, environments and processes that make the difference.

Executive coaching: working at individual, team and organisational level to develop leaders and build strong coaching cultures.

Strategic facilitation: trusted to facilitate groups at all levels to enable open dialogue, clarity and engagement.

Accredited in Insights Discovery, PROPHET and MAPP psychometric tools.

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Career highlights

Cutting my teeth in strategy consulting at BCG, and forming strong opinions on what drives effective change – and what doesn’t.

Partnering with the Exec team at a much-loved building society to identify the strategic drivers that would deliver their purpose.

Faculty member on Design Leaders MBA programme, delivering group coaching and mentoring to a diverse and inspiring cohort of leaders from around the world.

Coaching several leaders in a global FTSE30 business to thrive personally and professionally; make the shift from MD to Exec; and develop people leadership as well as their results.

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Why I do this work

I’m endlessly curious about people: how we think, relate, make sense of complexity and show up under pressure. Over time, I’ve seen that most organisational challenges aren’t really technical problems, but human ones: confidence, judgement, relationships, and behaviour in the moment. I believe change doesn’t happen in documents or programmes, but in everyday interactions: the conversations people have, what they give attention to, and how leaders behave when it matters. It’s this focus, combined with the variety of people and context I work in, that I find stimulating and engaging, and I love nothing better than helping people make sense of complexity.

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My Edge

I combine warmth, credibility and pragmatism, and can create an environment that allows the tough questions to be asked – and answered. The people I work with tell me I make the complex simple, without dumbing it down.

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