Corporate: I trained as a solicitor at a top-20 law firm, then led fairness and inclusion strategy at a global healthcare company. This work led me to systems change long before the wider conversation caught up, and taught me the disconnect between what organisations do and what they say they do.
Creative: As a designer, I developed an understanding of how people relate to art and space. I spent more than a decade designing listed and heritage homes and commercial projects, while mentoring other creatives to develop their own design craft. Creativity is not a hobby to me. It’s existential.
Entrepreneurial: I built an award-winning business of my own; a sustainable, profitable creative practice from a standing start, in the male-dominated construction industry. I know what it takes to run a business, and how it feels.
Human: Like many midlife women, I find my life has filled up when I’ve been busy doing other things. I have run marathons, carried the grief of caring for, then losing a parent, whilst navigating significant professional responsibility, and raising three teenagers. Now I am meeting the emptying nest. As a registered yoga teacher with postgraduate study in embodied presence, I work with the body as well as the mind.
Before building an integrative coaching practice, I spent my career working with structure at every scale; the systems people work inside, the spaces they live in, the lives they build, and my own. I worked my way inwards, from the system to the self. What follows here is some of the experience that I bring to the women I work with, most of whom are navigating transitions similar to those I have known.
This is my third professional chapter.
I am researching an MSc in consciousness and transpersonal psychology, and hold coaching certification from Harvard Medical School. But I do not coach from a textbook. Mine is a deliberately independent practice model, informed but not constrained by rigorous academic study and shaped by a lived feminist lens.
The change I work on with you starts on the inside and moves outward into how you lead, how you build, and how you live. I offer my full human attention, my own way of seeing and an honest partnership to a small number of women through a few structured 1:1 programmes. I share my thinking more widely through my writing at Unformed Life, where more is taking shape.
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