With more than 20 years’ experience across leadership, coaching, mentoring and education, I bring together professional experience with my own lived experience of balancing ambition, work, family, wellbeing and everyday life.
Whether you’re navigating a career change, looking for greater clarity, building confidence or working towards a personal goal, I provide a supportive space to step back, think things through and work out what comes next.
My approach is practical, collaborative and grounded in real life. I’m here as your thinking partner — helping you understand what matters to you, explore what might need to change and move forward in a way that feels right and sustainable.
Looking at the bigger picture — your goals, values, circumstances, energy and capacity.
EMCC-accredited Level 5 Professional Coach with more than 20 years' experience supporting people through change and development.
Experienced in supporting athletes to develop their skills, confidence and performance.
A Swim England qualified swimming teacher, bringing technical knowledge and practical coaching experience.
Running, swimming, cycling, triathlon, marathons and Ironman have all been part of my own journey.
Helping you understand what matters to you, so that the changes you make work with your life rather than against it.
I didn’t set out to become a coach. Looking back, though, coaching has probably been part of what I’ve done for much longer than I’ve had a qualification to prove it.
My career has taken me through education, the NHS and local government, including senior leadership roles in performance, data and transformation. Along the way, I’ve supported people with career development, learning, change and personal growth.
I’m an EMCC-accredited Level 5 Professional Coach, British Triathlon Coach and Swim England Teacher. I’m also a graduate career mentor at the University of East Anglia and a Level 5 apprenticeship tutor.
These experiences have taught me that there’s rarely one right path through life or work. Sometimes, having someone alongside you — someone who listens, challenges you and helps you see things differently — can make all the difference.
I've experienced many of the transitions that can make us stop and ask, what next?
I've been made redundant at different points in my career, including when my children were young. I've worked part-time when family needed me to, and I've worked at senior levels where the expectations can feel relentless — thousands of emails, competing priorities, constant demands for answers and the pressure to deliver more with less, while still trying to lead with compassion.
I've also experienced the questions that come when a long career starts to change.
And sometimes there are other things to navigate too — supporting children as they build their own lives, perhaps supporting ageing parents, and trying to find space for yourself somewhere in the middle.
These experiences have shaped the way I coach.
I've always enjoyed being active. Running, swimming, cycling and triathlon have become an important part of my own life.
I've never been the fastest or most naturally talented athlete. I'm much more interested in my own progress, setting myself a challenge and working out how I'm going to achieve it.
It gives
me goals.
It gives
me structure.
It gets
me outside.
It reminds me
that progress doesn't
always happen quickly.
Sport has also taught me that looking after yourself isn’t selfish. It’s preservation.
If you continually put yourself at the bottom of the list, eventually you have less to give to the people and things that matter to you.