Coach // Facilitator // Consultant
I help people tune in and make sense of how they work, lead, and connect.
What I do
1:1 Leadership Coaching
Whether you’re a new team lead or experienced executive, we will surface and explore what’s most relevant for you, challenge assumptions, re-frame and co-create actionable next steps and ‘safe to try’ experiments- ensuring a dynamic, practical and meaningful learning journey.
Leadership Development Programs
If you’re looking for a leadership development program or workshop that is out of the ordinary, culturally aligned and strategically embedded- look no further.
- End to end approach: research, design, pilot, facilitation, evaluation
- 1:1 coaching for participants to embed and translate learning
- Expertise in experiential, arts-based methods, large-group participatory frameworks as well as hybrid models of learning.
- Large network of skilled collaborators to draw upon depending on the size, scope of your need.
1:1 Women in the Workplace Coaching
Maybe you just returned to work from maternity leave or are re-entering the workforce after a career pause. Or perhaps you’re considering your next big promotion or reflecting on your personal and professional ‘why’. I work with women at all stages of their career, in corporate, non profit and community based settings on these very issues.
Culture and Performance Consultation
Why your organization exists and how people execute strategy are the essence of your company, not jargon or an afterthought. They directly impact business performance. And for that reason, they should be continuously interrogated, explored and iterated.
I work with leaders to unpack the how and why, interrogate if current ways of working are serving them well or, conversely, undermining business performance. Together, with your leadership team and voices from across your organziation we will shape the way forward ensuring the ‘what next’ is understood holistically, including Integration into critical HR and Talent processes { e.g. performance management frameworks, onboarding processes, recruitment strategy, promotion processes)
With global experience spanning industries and sectors
Guiding Principles
Be curious
“…yet all my teaching and consulting experience has taught me that what builds a relationship, what solves problems, what moves things forward is asking the right questions.”
Edgar Schein
Sometimes answers and quick solutions feel easier. They lower our anxiety, they give us the ‘fix’ we are looking for.
Yet, it’s the art of questioning and digging one layer deeper that drives more sustainable and meaningful outcomes for individuals, for teams, and for organizations. I’m a proponent of being thorough and thoughtful; slowing down to speed up.
Be creative
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”
Abraham Maslow
You are not a static box on an org chart nor are your team members. Yet, all too often, we approach individuals, groups and organizations as one-dimensional. And because our mental models create our reality, interventions frequently mirror this more linear mentality.
Yet, we all deserve a space to challenge ourselves, think differently, experiment and question the status quo. The benefits are wide-ranging when we engage a different part of our brain, have a different conversation, or simply experiment with doing just one thing differently.
Be intentional
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Viktor Frankl
Reflecting on what’s in our control and what’s not. Taking that critical moment to pause before continuing or responding. These are all examples of exercising one’s autonomy and freedom, even in the most difficult of circumstances.
What’s this have to do with business performance or leadership? The more attuned we are with our inner world and attempt to access the inner world of those we work with, the more space we create for growth and experimentation.
About me
I’ve spent the past 15 years working at the intersection of organizational and social psychology, across multiple sectors and with organizations large and small. An expat at heart, I’ve lived and worked around the world, immersing myself in a variety of very different cultures. No matter where I am, I keep asking myself the same question: how can leaders and organizations create an environment where people not only perform but thrive? Moreover, my adventures abroad (which I hope to continue!) have shaped me personally and professionally, embedding a curiosity, humility, and deeply human approach to how I engage with others.
A self described nerd and ‘pracademic‘, I bridge research and theory with practical experience to create meaningful, real-world impact for clients. I’ve also had the unique opportunity to explore and integrate multidisciplinary methods into my approach and have seen their impact first-hand: from the creative arts to oral storytelling to open space, participatory frameworks. My eclectic background shows up in my consulting, coaching, and creative program design work, each grounded in psychology, systems thinking, and an appreciation for complexity over quick fixes.
In 2018, my own path took an unexpected turn when a serious health event required me to take a step back from my busy corporate role in London and focus on recovery for nearly half a year. Not long after (and just as the world entered its first Covid lockdown), I became a new mother and relocated with my family from the UK to Canada.
My own lived experience has breathed colour into otherwise theoretical concepts and phrases: career pauses, barriers to re-entering the workplace, the imperative of empathic emotionally intelligent leadership, mental load, imposter syndrome and the courage it takes to bounce back.
Above all, I’ve learned that growth is rarely linear.
Professional qualifications and collaborations:
- Executive Coach, Coaching Development UK (ICF Accredited Training Body)
- MSc Social and Organizational Psychology, The London School of Economics (Hilde Himmelweit Award for highest grade in graduating class)
- BA Honours Psychology, McGill University
- In Progress 2025-2026: Art of Developmental Coaching, Coaches Rising UK
- Collaborator @ Plural, an organization design and change consultancy
- Collaborator @ MAP Consortium, and arts based organization development consultancy [2010-2017]
My why
effective leaders + healthy culture = good business
Well, the research is clear: wellbeing at work and emotionally intelligent leadership directly drive performance. But we also feel it every day; the ripple effect of how we experience our work, our teams, and our leaders is wide ranging. It impacts our physical and mental health and, of course, how we show up with our family, our friends, our community.
That’s why I do this work. We spend a disproportionate amount of our lives ‘at work’ and everyone wins when work becomes a place of learning, growth, and connection. My aim is to help organizations and leaders leverage that simple truth to cultivate strong relationships, true learning cultures and, of course, strong business outcomes.
the smell of the place
I disproportionately and intentially focus on leaders. Why? Leaders create culture everyday. I always go back to a beautiful lecture by the late Sumantra Ghoshal who talks about ‘the smell of the place‘; the intangible but undeniable feeling you have when sitting in a meeting or walking into work. It might feel energizing, or it might feel suffocating. Working with leaders to notice, reflect upon, and perhaps shift the ‘smell’ is critical work with far reaching impact.
“changing people’s behavior is not about changing people, but changing the context which they are in: the smell of the place”