My Journey: From Clinical Precision to Coaching for Systemic Change
I began my career as an optometrist, spending over twenty years in NHS clinical and leadership roles. From the consulting room to the boardroom, I saw how identity, emotional labour, and system dynamics shape not only how we lead, but how we experience belonging within the system.
Coaching became a natural evolution — a space to pause, reflect, and think deeply. I now work with professionals navigating complexity, cross-cultural tension, and the often invisible weight of emotional labour. Many are the “only one” of their identity at the table. Together, we work to restore clarity, confidence, and cultural depth — supporting leadership that’s grounded in presence and integrity, not performance.
My Coaching Approach
My coaching brings together clarity, cultural depth, and systemic awareness — creating a space where reflection leads to action and identity is fully honoured. These six guiding principles underpin how I support leaders through complexity, transition, and growth.
Grounded Clarity
Calm, spacious sessions that create the conditions for insight, self-trust and steady action.
Cultural Depth
We explore voice, visibility and leadership through the lens of culture, history, & lived experience.
Systemic Insight
Together we surface hidden patterns — within you, your context, & the systems shaping your work.
Strategic Direction
I support you to align your values with action — moving forward with intention, not urgency.
Polarity Thinking
We work with tensions — like belonging vs. leading — using them as wisdom, not obstacles.
Ethical Presence
A trauma-aware, identity-conscious space where you're met with both compassion and challenge.
Beyond Coaching
I’ve travelled through more than fifty countries — often alone, always observing. Movement taught me stillness: how to stay centred amid change and to see systems, people, and power with wider perspective. Those experiences shape how I coach — with cultural intelligence, grounded awareness, and space for honest reflection and growth.
