About Me
My background spans more than 20 years in financial services and nine years as a Company Director and Consultant, alongside a first-class M.A. in Strategic Health and Wellbeing Leadership.
Over the years, my work has taken me through executive and career coaching, organisational consultancy, neurodivergence, workplace health and wellbeing, and self-advocacy.
I've worked one-to-one with executives, senior leaders, vice presidents, professionals navigating career changes, and neurodivergent adults exploring their identities, opportunities and place in the world. Although the professional contexts and individual circumstances varied considerably, I began to recognise how often the underlying questions overlapped.
People were navigating transitions in their careers, relationships, health, lifestyles and personal lives. They were reconsidering established roles, managing competing responsibilities, questioning expectations and trying to make decisions about what came next.
Different people, different circumstances, but many of the same human experiences.
Independent Consultancy & Research
That understanding continues to inform my independent consultancy and research. My interests extend beyond individual wellbeing to the organisational, social and cultural conditions that influence people's experiences of work, health, inclusion and autonomy.
A particularly important part of this work is my research into men's experiences of miscarriage and perinatal loss in the workplace.
Having experienced eight miscarriages myself, I understand something of the profound personal consequences of pregnancy loss, including the difficulties of continuing to work while navigating grief that may be largely invisible to others.
My Master's research gave me an opportunity to examine an aspect of that experience which has received comparatively limited attention: how men experience pregnancy loss within the context of employment, including expectations around masculinity, grief, emotional expression and workplace support.
It is work I care deeply about and intend to continue developing through independent research, writing and the translation of evidence into more informed workplace practices.
Life, Loss & Perspective
My personal life has also included chronic illness, caregiving, burnout, bereavement, education, writing, art and the ordinary responsibilities that accumulate across a life.
After my dad died in January 2026, I deliberately stepped away from paid work and began closing my company. The pause gave me something I hadn't had much of for a long time: space to consider what I wanted the second half of my own life to look like.
My dad has influenced much of the thinking that has emerged since. He lived relatively simply and wasn't a wealthy man, but he understood something about enough.
As he aged, I watched someone who valued his autonomy, knew what mattered to him and seemed increasingly content with the life he actually had. He wasn't endlessly looking for more.
I don't romanticise that. Material circumstances matter. Financial insecurity cannot be coached away, and having enough stability to exercise meaningful choice is itself a privilege.
But sufficiency isn't necessarily the same thing as wealth.
What Comes Next
I'm increasingly interested in what happens when some of the roles and responsibilities that have organised our lives begin to loosen. Career. Parenting. Caring. Providing. Achieving. Being useful.
These things can remain deeply important without having to organise every part of who we are or what we do next.
For me, this period has meant returning to writing and art, continuing towards publication of my Master's research, reading more widely and reconsidering the place professional work occupies in my life.
My independent consultancy and research remain an important part of that future, alongside more personal and creative work via Advocating Autonomy and my artist website.
Some of what I do next will be commercial. Some won't be, because it doesn't need to be.
I'm not particularly interested in turning every interest into a business, every experience into a lesson or every stage of life into another productivity project.
Sometimes doing something new is worthwhile.
Sometimes doing less is enough.
And sometimes recognising what we already have, and what we no longer need, changes the questions we're asking.