About

I spent the first part of my career in marketing and advertising, leading teams in the UK, Europe and Canada. I moved into executive search for a while, then retrained as a business psychologist and coach so I could focus on the thing I’m most interested in: people’s relationship with work.

I’ve genuinely enjoyed my career, and like most people, I’ve had to navigate the mix of things that working life brings: learning to lead, changing career, new teams, new continents, promotions, burnout, difficult projects and challenging people. Sometimes it was fulfilling, exciting and rewarding; sometimes it most definitely wasn’t.

The work I do now provides the kind of support I wish I’d had. I help people understand what’s going on for them, their teams or their organisations, and support them in moving forward with more clarity and direction. Sometimes that’s through coaching, sometimes consulting (usually applied business psychology), and often it’s a mix of both.

I work across many sectors, but tend to focus on the professional services, advertising, media and marketing.

Clients

Current clients include DDB Worldwide, Publicis Media, Ogilvy, Gaingels, Inc., Courier (Intuit), The Gate (part of MSQ), Grace Blue, IHS Towers, Indemnity, Naked Ideas and the University of Cambridge, and lots of individual career and leadership coaching clients.

Qualifications

I’m a certified coach with a Diploma in Coaching (ICE, University of Cambridge) and an MSc in Organisational Psychology (Birkbeck, University of London). I’m on the British Psychological Society’s register of psychometric test users and am certified to use a number of personality assessments, which I use for candidate selection, individual coaching and team development.

I’m a member of the Association for Coaching and the Association for Business Psychology, and abide by their Codes of Ethics.