My Story

Choosing a coach is a personal experience.

You are making a decision on whether you can trust your coach with the parts of yourself you’d rather keep private. It’s a deeply personal experience and it makes sense to take your time with it.

To feel into whether there could be a good fit.

Before coaching, I spent twenty years in HR, much of it in senior roles with businesses across Europe. As you’d expect it was the ordinary work of organisational life: mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, cultural upheaval, the kinds of leadership challenges par for the course. None of it was unusual, and that’s what made it valuable. The same human patterns showed up again and again, in different companies and different countries. HR done well requires you to understand what actually drives people, beneath the surface they present. I loved it for that reason.

Somewhere around the halfway point, I knew I wanted to coach. I then spent ten years telling myself I wasn’t ready. Looking back, that was probably accurate. Those years gave me something that couldn’t be shortcut, including the experience of doing my own serious inner work, without which I wouldn’t be a coach worth sitting with.

Fifteen years into this practice, I work with senior leaders at moments of genuine transition.

When the expectations have shifted, when the old approaches are losing their purchase, when something new is quietly asking to be found — and when the leader in question is willing to look inward rather than simply restrategise.

My approach draws on embodied and somatic work, systemic constellations, EMDR, and Focusing. These aren't techniques I apply. They're ways of being present to what's actually happening in a person — what the body is carrying that the mind hasn't named yet.

I don't have an agenda I'm working through in our sessions. I follow what's emerging. I'm practically minded, but I don't do surface-level work — the two aren't in conflict.

I'm direct when it serves, warm throughout, and I have a particular interest in what isn't being said.

If you do your best thinking when you're given genuine space rather than being managed toward an outcome — you may find this way of working suits you.

Credentials

My practice draws on rigorous, body-based training accumulated over fifteen years — chosen because it produces lasting change, not because it was fashionable.

Master Somatic Coach, Strozzi Institute · Ontological Coach, Newfield Network · Systemic Constellations Practitioner, certified by John Whittington and Lynn Stoney · Focusing Practitioner, London School of Focusing · EMDR in Coaching, EMDR Centre London · ICF Accredited to PCC level

Senior leaders I’ve worked with include those at LinkedIn, Capgemini, EDF, National Grid, and the National Gallery.

Starting Point

If you’ve read this far and something resonates — even quietly — I’d welcome a conversation. No obligation. No pitch. Just an honest exploration of whether we might be a good fit