Who I Work With
I work with managers, leaders and CEOs who want to:
- Prevent burnout before it becomes a problem
- Protect their energy and wellbeing
- Navigate leadership challenges with confidence
- Manage pressure more effectively
- Build resilience and self-awareness
- Lead others without losing themselves in the process
- Create healthier ways of working and leading
While much of my experience is within the Third Sector, I work with leaders from a wide range of backgrounds and organisations
What Coaching Can Help With
Every coaching conversation is led by the client's priorities and goals.
Common themes include:
- Burnout prevention and recovery
- Managing stress and pressure
- Confidence and self-belief
- Emotional resilience
- Difficult conversations
- Leadership effectiveness
- Boundaries and workload management
- Transition into leadership roles
- People management challenges
- Organisational change
- Decision-making and clarity
- Balancing personal wellbeing with professional responsibility
There is no fixed agenda.
The focus is on what's most important to you.
My Approach
My coaching combines:
- Executive Coaching
- Burnout-Informed Coaching
- Emotions Coaching
- Leadership Development
- 34 years of HR and leadership experience
As an ILM Level 7 qualified Executive Coach and Mentor, I create a supportive, challenging and reflective space where clients can explore issues openly, increase self-awareness and develop practical actions that lead to meaningful change.
I am particularly passionate about helping leaders recognise the signs of pressure early and build sustainable approaches to leadership that support both performance and wellbeing.
Coaching Package
Leaders Under Pressure Coaching
The package includes:
- Four 90-minute confidential coaching sessions
- Sessions tailored entirely around your goals, challenges and priorities
- Online delivery via Microsoft Teams
- Practical actions and reflections between sessions
- Email support between sessions, where appropriate
This approach provides the time and space needed for meaningful exploration while ensuring coaching remains focused and outcome-driven.
Book a Chemistry Call
Choosing the right coach is important.
A no obligation chemistry conversation allows us to explore:
- What support you're looking for
- What challenges you're currently facing
- What you'd like coaching to help you achieve
- Whether we're the right fit to work together
Why This Work Matters To Me
For most of my career, I thought success meant working harder, achieving more and proving myself.
I built a successful career in HR, progressed into senior leadership roles and found purpose in helping people and organisations navigate change. I loved making a difference and being someone others could rely on.
What I didn't recognise at the time was the cost.
Over many years I experienced anxiety, panic attacks, emotional exhaustion, poor sleep and ongoing health issues.
I thought I needed to cope better, work harder or find the right role. Looking back, I can see my mind and body were warning me that something needed to change.
In 2020, at the height of my second burnout, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
I often say that cancer didn't cause me to rethink my life.
It prevented a third burnout!
My recovery led me to explore the patterns, beliefs and behaviours that had brought me to that point. I invested heavily in my own development, worked with coaches and deepened my understanding of burnout, emotions, resilience and leadership.
Today, I combine that lived experience with more than 34 years of leadership and HR experience to help leaders and managers navigate pressure, recover from burnout and develop more sustainable ways of leading and living.
Because success should never come at the cost of your health, relationships or sense of self.
Why this matters to my clients
Today, I combine more than 34 years of leadership and HR experience with Executive Coaching, Burnout-Informed Coaching and Emotions Coaching to help leaders and managers navigate pressure, recover from burnout and create more sustainable ways of leading, working and living.
Many of my clients are successful, capable people who care deeply about their work and the people they support.
They're often the person everyone else relies on.
They are carrying more than anyone realises.
And sometimes they have lost sight of themselves in the process.
I know that person well.
I used to be her.
That's why I create a coaching space where leaders can pause, think, reflect and reconnect with what matters most to them.
Not because I have all the answers.
But because I've walked my own path through pressure, burnout, recovery and change.
And I know that it is possible to achieve success, make a difference and lead effectively without sacrificing yourself in the process.
Because success should never come at the cost of your health, your relationships or your sense of self.
