The Experience Behind The Work
Three decades working with people, systems, and organisations under pressure.
The Experience Behind The Work
I have spent over 30 years working with people, teams, and organisations under pressure.
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My background spans health and therapeutic work, corporate leadership environments, business ownership, charity leadership, and community projects in the UK and internationally. I have worked inside systems where responsibility is high, decisions carry weight, and the cost of getting things wrong is felt by real people.
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Across these settings, the same pattern appears again and again.
Capable people adapt to pressure, compensate for systems that are not working, and keep going long past the point where something needs to change.​
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What is often labelled as burnout is rarely a personal failing. More often, it is a signal of sustained pressure, silence, and systems that no longer support healthy decision-making or capacity.
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My work focuses on understanding what is really happening beneath performance, surfacing honest insight, and supporting change that actually holds.
I Know This Work From the Inside
Earlier in my corporate career, I experienced burnout myself. I took time away from work, returned, tried to push through, and eventually resigned. High responsibility, constant pressure, and the feeling of being entirely replaceable took a real toll.
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That experience fundamentally changed how I understand leadership, success, and sustainability.
Later, as a business owner, I encountered the same patterns wearing different clothes. When you care deeply about what you are building, boundaries blur easily. Responsibility expands. Rest gets postponed. The system relies on you holding everything together.
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These experiences inform my work, but they do not define it. They allow me to recognise patterns quickly, ask better questions, and work credibly with people carrying real weight.
This Is Why My Work Exists
I am not interested in surface-level wellbeing initiatives, box-ticking exercises, or programmes that look good but change very little.
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I care about work that genuinely changes how people think, lead, decide, and function under pressure.
I work with:
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Leaders carrying more than they admit
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Teams that are capable but stretched thin
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Individuals who appear fine on the outside but are exhausted underneath
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This work sits at the intersection of mental health, leadership, nervous system regulation, and real-world responsibility.
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It is calm, honest work that creates clarity without adding pressure.
My Approach
My approach is practical, grounded, and human.
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It is shaped by decades of therapeutic work, lived experience, and time spent inside systems, not observing them from the outside.
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There is no performance here.
No jargon.
No pretending everything is fine when it clearly is not.
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This work creates:
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Clearer thinking under pressure
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Better leadership decisions
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Healthier boundaries
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More sustainable performance
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For organisations, that means fewer crisis decisions, stronger retention, and teams that actually function.
For people, it means steadier nervous systems, better judgement, and the ability to keep doing meaningful work without losing themselves in the process.
Why This Matters
Pressure always shows up somewhere. The question is whether it shows up early as insight, or later as damage.
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​When pressure goes unexamined, organisations pay for it through attrition, poor decisions, and burnout at senior levels.
When it is understood properly, leaders can respond with clarity instead of urgency.
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This work helps organisations address pressure where it belongs, in the system, not in the individual.
A little about me, beyond the work
Outside of my professional work, I am a wife and a mother. Those roles have shaped how I understand responsibility, pressure, and what it really means to carry a lot for other people.
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I feel most like myself outdoors, particularly near water or open space. Time outside helps me think clearly and stay grounded, which is one reason nature features in my work where it genuinely supports reflection and conversation. I also run a small campsite, which says something about the environments I value and the pace I believe people need in order to function well.
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I am drawn to quiet focus rather than constant busyness, and to creating spaces where people feel at ease enough to think honestly. That applies both to how I live and how I work.
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Alongside my current work, I am an author and have spent many years working internationally. In 2016, my work in Uganda was recognised with the National Venus Women in Business Award for Influential Woman of the Year.
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All of this feeds into how I show up professionally. I believe people do their best work when they feel grounded, supported, and able to be themselves, not when they are pushing through at personal cost.
