Who Am I
I am an ICF Professional Certified Coach, EMCC Senior Practitioner, board adviser and former Chief Executive and Chair. I have spent more than 35 years leading organisations and people through complexity, change, scrutiny and performance challenge, including leading transformations across multiple locations under public scrutiny and maintaining critical regulatory services throughout COVID.
I now hold Non-Executive Director roles across private and public organisations and have coached more than 250 executives. I bring business and psychological insight alongside deep coaching and mentoring experience, and I work with clients across the globe, in sectors including energy, engineering, infrastructure, nuclear, government and the public sector, professional services and financial services.
My Approach
I combine warmth, curiosity and neuroscience with caring and daring challenge. My coaching looks beneath the presenting problem, helping leaders notice the assumptions, habits and dynamics shaping how they show up.
I help leaders find patterns and interdependencies, create greater collective ownership and focus their contribution where it adds most value. My style is practical and reflective, focused on building sustainable positive habits and turning insight into real conversations, decisions and behavioural experiments.
Areas of Focus: What can I do for you?
- Executive, C-suite and Succession Coaching: supporting senior leaders to step up, and preparing successors for the most senior roles.
- Leadership Transition and Identity: helping leaders find their feet and their voice in a new or bigger role.
- Strategic and Whole-System Leadership: seeing the patterns and interdependencies across an organisation and focusing effort where it adds most value.
- Confidence, Influence and Leadership Presence: building the clarity and assurance to lead with impact.
- Meaningful Conversations and Constructive Challenge: equipping leaders to have the conversations that matter, with candour and care.
- Accountability, Trust and Psychological Safety: creating the conditions for collective ownership and honest dialogue.
- Leadership Team Effectiveness and Performance Culture: helping leadership teams work well together and deliver sustained performance.
- NED Mentoring: supporting new and aspiring Non-Executive Directors to make an effective contribution at board level.
Qualifications
- ICF PCC: International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach
- EMCC: European Mentoring and Coaching Council Senior Practitioner
- CIPD: Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD)
- Neuroscience in Coaching
- Coaching for Neurodivergence
- Psychometrics: MBTI Step II, AEM Cube, Quality of Interactions (Qi)
