Executive coach and leadership consultant based in London
My background includes 20 years in senior management and director-level roles. As an Operations Director, I led large teams across different disciplines, managed multimillion-pound budgets and developed operational strategies for commercial growth. I understand the pressure of making decisions that affect both performance and the people responsible for delivering it.
Today I coach CEOs, C-suite executives and senior leaders, bringing that experience together with more than 5,000 hours of senior-level coaching. I offer room to speak candidly and think strategically, alongside direct challenge and a perspective grounded in having led within a business myself. I care about what happens when you return to the people and decisions in front of you.
Experience in the conversation
I begin by understanding your landscape and the situation as you see it.
Together, we identify the strategic objectives that will guide our work.
Our sessions will blend your live challenges, decisions and thinking with continued focus on your wider objectives.
I’ll listen closely and give you space to think in a way that other conversations can’t.
I’ll also say what I think.
I may question your account of events, challenge your assumptions, offer perspectives from my own experience of leadership and brainstorm solutions from my experience of working with many other senior clients.
You bring the knowledge of your world.
I bring fresh perspective, honest challenge and space to think.
The other side of the conversation
I love this work for the conversations it makes possible and the extraordinary impact it can have.
My own experience of coaching during a challenging period of my life was transformational.
It inspired me to retrain as a coach and I continue to work with my own coach.
I know what it feels like to be on the other side of the conversation and the trust it takes to be honest about what you haven’t yet worked out.
My clients and I have a lot of fun while we work.
There’s warmth, humour and plenty of laughter in our conversations.
That enjoyment helps us build the trust to be honest, explore difficult things and do powerful work together.
A wider perspective
I hold a Diploma in Transformational Coaching from Animas Centre for Coaching, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). I’m also an accredited iEQ9 Enneagram practitioner with additional training in advanced Enneagram team dynamics. Where it serves the work, I use iEQ9 profiling to explore patterns affecting how a leader decides, relates to others and responds under pressure.
My practice draws on positive psychology, cognitive behavioural coaching, neuro-linguistic programming, transactional analysis and Gestalt. These give me different ways to explore how beliefs, habitual responses and relationships may be shaping situations and outcomes. I use what is relevant, then bring the conversation back to the choices you can make in practice.
Enneagram coaching for senior leaders and teams
If you’re considering coaching for yourself or a senior leader in your organisation, I’d be glad to hear what has prompted it. We can talk through the situation, what you hope the work could achieve and how I might approach it.
We’ll also get a sense of whether we would work well together.
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