I have 25 years of international business experience working at senior levels in corporate structures, navigating complex stakeholder environments across different industries and functions. I have a BA in International Relations from UCLA, an MBA from INSEAD and completed Martha Beck's Wayfinder Coach Training and the Soul's Calling Academy Facilitator and Coach Training.
Alongside my practice as Connective Coach, I am CEO for Oracle Cancer Trust, working to improve awareness, medical research and better diagnosis and treatment of Head and Neck cancers. I am also mother to two beautiful daughters and married to a loving and often overstretched NHS surgeon. I love exploring and expanding my horizons - often that is with food and cooking but I think I am also known to make things happen so that we always have an outdoor adventure, music, travel, time with good friends, family time and self care somewhere in the calendar.
Today, I work with clients globally – from individuals to teams to organisations – to help you find your unique signatures, to help you find new, real ways to connect what you do and who you are.
Growing up, I had to financially support my mother and sister (it’s a long story). In doing so, I found myself studying business and quickly worked my way up the corporate ladder. I graduated from UCLA with a BA in International Relations and started working in Investment Banking and then Investment Management in the US. I then went to do an MBA at INSEAD in Singapore and France (that was a great experience!) and then I moved to the UK where I worked in various senior executive roles across industries that included Software, a Social Enterprise Start-Up, Product Development Innovation, Technology and Compliance Training. I learned a lot and worked with some truly great people in international teams and often in challenging business situations and turnarounds. I also learned what didn't resonate with me but I kept at it. The more professionally recognised I became, the more I felt disconnected from myself. On the outside, people saw a successful professional in a corporate suit; while on the inside, I was very much a mother, global nomad, adventurer and free spirited thinker.
The more I hid my true self, the more I suffered. Throughout my career, I have always been the “go-to” person when projects get difficult, when people on teams start to struggle, when internal communication begins to break down. After working with several executive coaches I decided to seek out and try to better understand different coaching techniques so that I could create my own mentoring methodologies. Before I knew it, I was drawn to enrol on my first coach training programme with Martha Beck's Wayfinder Training in California. The rest is sort of becoming history!