Services
Three ways to work together.
Every service starts in the same place: where you are now, and what is in the way. Whether you are stepping up, restructured, leaving corporate or scaling something of your own, I help you stand steady and decide what comes next.
I work independently, but never alone. I collaborate with trusted partners, from leadership facilitators to governance specialists, so you get the right expertise for the work in front of you.
Leading in the age of AI
As AI gets better at answers, judgement becomes the scarce skill.
Much of what people did will now be done by AI. It is a real fear, and an understandable one.
But AI carries no accountability, conscience or courage. Someone still has to judge what it produces, decide what it means, and stand behind the call. That is a human job, and it is the job I spent a career doing: testing evidence, asking what is missing, and knowing when the numbers are not telling the whole story.
It runs through all three services: knowing what must stay human, and leading from there.
Coaching
When you don’t know what comes next.
A private space to stand steady, find your next move, and lead as the person you are now. One-to-one, or for teams and organisations.
Transition Coaching
Sound familiar?You’ve stepped into something bigger, or something has ended, and the ground has moved under you.
- The instincts you trusted have gone quiet.
- Everyone expects you to have the answer.
- The question you can’t say out loud: am I still the right person for this?
A six-session Focus or twelve-session Sprint through Foundations That Hold, starting with your Transition Profile, a structured look at your ground, your seven pillars and the weather. You leave with clarity on the decision, and a plan you own.
Support for new leaders and leadership teams through restructures, integrations, handovers and the AI transition, so the change lands for the business, not just the person.
Rising Leaders
Sound familiar?You’re good at what you do. People tell you you’re ready. Yet you’re still one rung below where you want to be.
- You’re overlooked for roles you know you could do.
- You do the work, and others take the credit.
- Quietly, you wonder whether you’re really good enough.
Coaching to clear what’s holding you back, and mentoring from someone who knows how organisations and boardrooms really work: voice, visibility, boundaries, and owning your achievements.
A development programme for your emerging leaders and succession pipeline, so high potential becomes ready-now leadership.
Belonging and Inclusive Leadership
Sound familiar?You’ve spent years adjusting yourself to fit the room: toning it down, blending in, working twice as hard to be seen.
- You hold back your best ideas.
- You’re tired of bending yourself out of shape just to blend in.
- You wonder whether you’ll ever be seen for who you are.
Learn to lead as yourself, so the difference you’ve been managing becomes the edge you lead with.
When talented people go quiet or leave: inclusive leadership workshops and coaching for leaders and allies, building teams where people bring their whole selves and their best thinking.
How we work together
Bespoke, from the first conversation. Every change is felt in three places: in you, in your team, and in the people you need to bring with you. You choose where to start. My part is helping you see clearly what this change is for, and the first move that follows. The choice is always yours. You do the building, and I walk alongside you.
You, in the change
Who are you in this change, what is it asking of you, and what needs to change in you? One to one, at your pace.
Includes your Transition ProfileYour team, in the change
How is your team meeting this change, and how do you align, get ready and communicate through it together? I work with you, then with each member of your team on their own, then with the whole team together.
Includes a structured look at the teamThe people you need to bring through the change
Beyond your team: the people you don’t manage but can’t succeed without: other teams, the board, regulators, customers, partners. We work out together whom you need to influence, engage and align with, and how. I help you prepare; the conversations are yours.
Works from a stakeholder map, in sessionRunning through all three: making sense of the change. Where you are in it, where your people are, what the storm around you is doing, and what is genuinely yours to act on.
30 minutes to talk through what you want from this change, and whether we’re the right fit. Complimentary and confidential.
We agree what this change is for, what success looks like and your first move, starting with your profile.
A six-session Focus or a twelve-session Sprint, each over three months.
You retake your profile to see what has moved, and decide your next move.
Between sessions: time to reflect. Every session ends with a question to take away. In the quiet afterwards, as you reflect on what we explored, the real shift often comes.
And, for clients who want it, a conscious leadership lens rooted in timeless wisdom.
How we work togetherBoard and Advisory
Power, held to a standard.
A seasoned board member and adviser for organisations in transition. An experienced view from someone who has sat on both sides of the table. I read the strategy, the governance and the numbers, and I read the room. Available for non-executive, advisory and fractional roles, and to work with boards in change.
Independent Non-Executive Director
Sound familiar?Your board is facing transformation, integration or a shift in risk, and you need independent challenge that also helps.
- The real issues sit between the lines of very long papers.
- Risk and assurance feel like compliance, not insight.
- You want a NED who has run these functions, not just overseen them.
Governance, risk, audit, finance and transformation experience from FTSE and NHS boards, committee chairing, and constructive challenge that holds power to a standard.
A board or committee seat, including chairing audit, risk or assurance committees.
Board Adviser
Sound familiar?The meetings are polite, and you’re not sure anyone is saying what they really think.
- Decisions get made, then drift.
- Assurance is reported, but not relied on.
- Nobody asks the uncomfortable question.
An experienced adviser alongside the board or chair, without a board seat: an outside view on effectiveness, risk and assurance. Where the work needs more, I bring in trusted specialists to work alongside me.
An advisory role to the board or chair, short effectiveness reviews, or facilitated board and committee sessions.
Fractional Roles
Sound familiar?You need senior capability for a season, a day or two a week, not a permanent hire.
- A function to build, or rebuild, fast.
- A transformation that needs steady hands.
- Governance and risk that need strengthening while the change beds in.
Fractional leadership across transformation, risk, assurance, audit and governance, built to hand on stronger than I found it.
A day or two a week, for a defined period, shaped around what the organisation needs.
Founders and Start-ups
Sound familiar?Your business is growing faster than its governance.
- You need your first board, or your first non-executive.
- Big decisions sit with one or two people, and the risks are piling up.
- Governance feels like bureaucracy that will slow you down.
Setting up a first board or advisory board, appointing the first non-executives, and building governance that grows with the business rather than slowing it.
Advisory support as you ramp up, then a non-executive or advisory seat if it helps.
The board in change
For unitary boards, executive and non-executive directors together: how the board as a whole is seeing the change, the risks and each other, and where it needs to align before the decisions get harder. A structured look at the board, then a facilitated session.
Workshops and Talks
Work it through together, not just hear about it.
Interactive, practical and fun. Sessions where people leave with something they have built, not just heard.
A facilitated session for leadership teams in transition, built on the ground, the seven pillars and the weather.
For leaders and allies building teams where people bring their whole selves and their best thinking.
A practical session on the judgement, creativity and human skills your people will need next.
Each workshop can be followed by coaching or a team session, so the work continues after the day.
Topics include:
Judgement in the age of AI
What holds you when everything shifts
Power is lent, not owned
Nobody knows where this is going. Take the next step.
Complimentary, 30 minutes, no obligation.