Working with me

At the heart of my coaching, I create space for the people I work with, to explore and examine what is on their mind, create clarity through their reflections, and help them draw on their wealth of experience to find solutions to the challenges they are facing. Underpinning my approach is my belief that the people I work with are resourceful and will find solutions that work for them.


I meet people where they are at, in that moment in time as we work together. My intention is to help people be their whole selves in their work and in leading others, creating a positive workplace culture and role-modelling positive leadership that has benefits for themselves, the people they work with and their organisation.


I am known for:

  • My warmth and openness
  • Creating a safe and welcoming coaching space
  • Listening deeply
  • Gently challenging

At the heart of my coaching, I seek to create space for my coachees to explore what is on their mind, make connections in their unsaid thoughts that helps them discover clarity through their reflections, and gain what they are looking for through coaching. Underpinning my approach is my belief that my coachees are resourceful and will find ways forward that work for them.


I look to coach the whole person as they show up in that moment we are working together. I take this approach because I believe that supporting a someone to work through what’s foremost on their mind will indirectly yet essentially help them work towards their overall coaching objectives. My experience has helped to reinforce my view that working with someone on the things that are present right at that moment, provides valuable insight and clarity and can then help them make progress towards their overall coaching objectives.


In coaching in this way, my intention is to help people be their whole selves in their work and as a leader, creating a positive workplace culture and role-modelling positive leadership that has benefits for themselves, the people they work with and their organisation.

Why I Coach

I first became aware of coaching as a newly appointed manager, but my profound experience of coaching was with one of my line managers who had a coaching approach. He helped me build my confidence and self-esteem, where I felt valued and respected, and supported through some difficult situations.


In taking a coaching approach with my own team, I found I earnt their respect, trust and received honest feedback from them on how well (and how not well!) I supported and stretched them, and what they wanted me to do differently.


As I began to coach others through more formal coaching relationships, I realised that I was creating a space which enabled people talk about unsaid concerns and difficulties helping them make more conscious decisions about how to do things differently. Often this was around wishing to be a leader that didn’t conform to the prevailing culture and norms, which they themselves experienced as restrictive, dismissive, overbearing, autocratic.


I found I was helping them build their self-confidence to lead others in a way and style they wanted to.


This was the point I realised I wanted to dedicate myself to coaching leaders and managers to help them be positive role-models and make a difference for their team, their colleagues, and their organisation.


What people have said about me

Being non-judgmental, offering observational feedback and allowing people to choose to act upon it or not

Focused on individual needs and goals in the context of the wider organisation and system environment

Understanding challenges leaders face, and working in partnership with individuals and organisations

Being supportive and calm with an appropriate level of challenge

Demonstrating belief in people’s potential and capability

Being professional and treating people with respect

Acting with integrity, openly and honestly

Being non-judgmental, whilst offering feedback and allowing people to choose to act upon it or not

Focused on individual needs and goals in the context of the wider organisation and system environment

Understanding challenges leaders face, and working in partnership with individuals and organisations

Being supportive and calm with an appropriate level of challenge

Demonstrating belief in people’s potential and capability

Being professional and treating people with respect

Acting with integrity, openly and honestly

The different types of coaching I provide

I am an experienced one-to-one coach working with individuals both in-person and in the virtual space. I create productive and transformational coaching relationships, that have enabled individuals to enhance their leadership capability and capacity, making a difference for themselves, their colleagues and their organisation. I have worked with Chief Executives, Exec Directors, Senior Leaders, Middle-Managers and front-line staff.

I also create engaging group coaching experiences and work with teams who are seeking to enhance their collective performance and ways of working. With my team coaching partner, I have built spaces for individual team members to unpick difficulties they are experiencing and facilitate the team to collectively find ways forward, that results in more resilient and productive working relationships within and extending out of the team.

Alongside my coaching, I have facilitated and tutored on two coach qualification programmes, from Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), supporting individuals to because trained and qualified coaches themselves.

Business and professional experience

I have been a professional coach for over 8 years working with individual senior leaders and teams, and has facilitated on a major culture change programme ‘Coaching for Culture’ within the NHS. Before this, I gained 15 years leadership and management experience in academia and corporate industry. In recent years, I worked for a nationally prestigious research centre as part of the senior leadership team. During this time, I found my coaching skills and approach invaluable in navigating complex and challenging circumstances, and which also helped me provide members of staff with a compassionate space focused on supporting them to succeed.


Alongside working with individuals, groups and teams, I have worked on a broad number of research and evaluation projects for NHS organisations, including the evaluation of leadership development programmes and collating research evidence on leadership topics such as System Leadership and Anchor Leadership in the NHS. I was part of a team that developed indictors and metrics to support the NHS leadership framework ‘Our Leadership Way’.