About
From international business to reflective practice
I've spent most of my career watching brilliant people struggle with something that shouldn't be so difficult: translating real competence and real care into the kind of presence that actually moves people and situations.
I spent seventeen years in international corporate roles – marketing director positions across Central and Eastern Europe, building teams, launching brands, sitting on management groups – before going independent. The consulting, team development and associate work that followed has run alongside the coaching practice I built, and continues to this day. Across all of it, I kept seeing the same pattern: capable people stepping into senior roles on the strength of their expertise, then wrestling with challenges that had nothing to do with their technical knowledge. The irony wasn't lost on me; I was experiencing it myself.
A turning point in the desert
My move from marketing director to coach wasn't planned. It began during a hard stretch when I discovered, almost by accident, that my best thinking happened when I was out walking in natural spaces.
What began as a way to clear my head deepened into a more settled understanding of how environment shapes inner experience. The pivot came during a 100-mile trek across the Jordan Desert in 2010. Walking for days through changing landscapes, something clarified: we are constantly responding to our external context, often without realising it. And – equally – we can learn to influence that context in return.
We are shaped from the outside in. And we can find our own way back, from the inside out – in a constant dance with our own becoming, and with the lives we touch in the process.
How the practice has grown
After retraining as a coach, I spent years designing and delivering coaching and development programmes for major clients – Microsoft, BAE Systems, Cisco, NHS and Salesforce among them – and have worked with hundreds of senior leaders across sectors. Over 1,500 coaching hours since.
More recently I qualified as a coaching supervisor through ICCS (International Centre for Coaching Supervision), whose training is accredited by EMCC, AC and ICF. That work has changed something in how I attend to relationships – between coach and client, between leader and team, between an organisation and the systems it sits within. It has deepened every other strand of the practice. Supervision is where I most often work now, alongside leadership coaching and consulting in strategy, organisation design and culture.
My foundations include coactive coaching, organisational and relationship systems coaching, EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 assessment, certified trauma-informed coaching, certified Attachment Theory coach training, and Internal Family Systems / parts work. I am also qualified as a Hill and Moorland Leader, and outdoor First Aider, because outdoor work calls for both psychological and physical safety, and I take both seriously.
The frameworks are scaffolding for the work, not the work itself.
Me with my beloved cocker spaniel ❤️ who taught me the essential beauty of authenticity and presence.
Beyond the Professional
I live in Fife, not far from Edinburgh and within reach of cities, airports and the Scottish mountains and coasts. I am a walker, a nature lover, a qigong practitioner, and a recent convert to pickleball, all of which remind me daily to stay physically and mentally agile, present and connected.
I have served as a volunteer and Board Trustee for local charities, and offer pro bono coaching for charitable organisations. Having lived and worked across different countries and cultures, I appreciate how our backgrounds shape our perspectives while also recognising that the deeper human challenges are remarkably universal.
My cocker spaniel keeps me honest about the essential beauty of presence and attention. She is, in her own way, an excellent supervisor.
A conversation
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