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About Me
Strategic Pressure Advisor | Founder of Pressure Literacy™
30 years of working with people, systems, and organisations under pressure.
From the inside and the outside.
Why I read what others miss.
I've been inside this. Not once. Not in one role.
Across 30 years, in every setting you can imagine.
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I've been the employee who worked herself into the ground for a system that didn't notice until I broke.
I've led teams of every size across corporate, therapeutic, and international settings. I've managed people, built businesses, and watched organisations from the inside while the pressure quietly did its damage.
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But I haven't just been inside it.
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I've sat across from people who were trapped in jobs destroying them and couldn't leave. I've listened
to friends and family carry weight they never talked about at work.
I've treated thousands of patients whose bodies and minds were holding the fallout of pressure that nobody upstream had ever addressed. The back pain with no physical cause.
The anxiety with no medical explanation. The tears that arrived the moment someone finally felt safe enough to be honest.
I've seen what pressure does to people when it goes unread. From every angle.
For three decades.
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And here's what I know for certain: none of it changes if you only treat the person.
You can support them, counsel them, rehabilitate them, and send them back into the same system that broke them in the first place.
And it'll break them again.
Because the system hasn't changed. The pressure hasn't moved. Nobody's read it.
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That's why I created Pressure Literacy.
Not to fix people. To fix what's pressing on them.
I've seen enough to know that the pattern is always the same. The system can't hold it. So the people do.
Until they can't.
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Most leaders aren't ignoring that. They simply can't read it. Nobody ever trained them to.
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Now I give them the tools to read it.
What this work is. And what it isn't.
I focus on systems, not individuals.
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I help leaders read the invisible pressure beneath performance. Where it's sitting, how it's moving, who's absorbing it, and where truth is being filtered before it reaches the people who need to hear it.
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I'm direct. I say what I see. I do it with warmth and respect, but I don't soften findings to protect egos and I don't produce reports that sit in drawers gathering dust.
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I’m not interested in telling leaders what they want to hear. I’m interested in showing them what they need to see. If that sounds uncomfortable, it should. Because the truth usually is. But it’s also the only thing that actually changes anything.
This is calm, practical work. Not crisis management. Not tick-box wellbeing that makes everyone feel better for a day and changes nothing by Monday. Not another resilience workshop.
Just clarity. Truth. And systems that no longer rely on silent people absorbing everything the structure won’t hold.
Who I work with and who I don't.
I work with leaders who’d rather know the truth than be comfortable. The ones who are willing to admit they might not have been leading as well as they could have. The ones who’ll roll up their sleeves, get in the trenches, and face what they find... even when it’s messy.
I work with people who’ve got the courage to open a Pandora’s box if it means things actually get better. Who understand that exposing weaknesses isn’t failure. It’s the starting point for everything good.
I’m here for all of it. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
But if you want someone who’ll tell you everything’s fine? Who’ll blow sunshine up your backside and hand you a report that makes you feel good about a system that’s quietly falling apart? I’m not your person. And I never will be.
When I'm not reading pressure
You'll find me outside. Walking, camping, or pottering around my farm on the Isle of Wight.
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I've run the London Marathon, travelled extensively, lived abroad, worked internationally and built things from scratch in places where the safety net didn't exist.
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I'm happiest around a campfire with the people I love, a glass of wine, and absolutely no talk of engagement
surveys.
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I bring my whole self to this work.
The professional expertise, yes.
But also the human experience of knowing exactly what it feels like to carry more than you should, to work inside a system that doesn't see you, and to come out the other side determined to make sure other people
don't have to.
If you're sensing pressure you can't yet read clearly, let's talk.
You don't need to have the answers.
That's my job.
Clarity comes first.