Who I Work With

I work with people who carry real responsibility for something that matters — and who want space to think clearly and honestly about it, with someone who has carried it too.

That’s a wider group than any job title. Sometimes it’s a senior leader — a divisional MD, a CEO, a partner, a member of an executive team. Sometimes it’s someone stepping into their first genuinely senior role. Sometimes it’s a founder or a social enterprise leader building something they believe in. What unites them isn’t seniority. It’s the moment they’re in.

A few of those moments come up again and again.

One particular focus of mine is the moment between seeing the direction and landing it. A direction is becoming clear in your own mind — about strategy, structure, priorities, or how the next chapter needs to look. The harder work is now ahead: taking the team with you, sequencing decisions that have consequences, surfacing what hasn’t yet been said, holding your nerve while the organisation catches up. Sometimes the direction is fully formed and the work is landing it. Sometimes it’s still half-formed, and the work is getting it sharp enough to commit to. Often it’s both at once.

Sometimes the moment is about stepping up. You’re moving into your first genuinely senior role, and the strengths that got you here — being the sharpest person in the room on your subject — matter less than they did. The work is different now, harder to feel competent at, and rarely something anyone sits you down and explains. The real question is what kind of leader you now need to become.

Sometimes it’s building something with no one to think aloud with. You’re leading a growing business, or a social enterprise. The decisions are yours, the stakes are personal, and there’s no one inside it you can be fully open with — without managing how it lands or what it signals. That conversation has to happen somewhere.

And sometimes it’s finding your edge again. The leadership that once felt certain has gone quiet, or stale. You’re doing the role well enough, but the conviction or the energy has slipped, and you want it back. This is about reconnecting with what you’re for — not walking away from it.

What unites the people I work with isn’t sector or size. It’s the responsibility they carry and the moment they’re carrying it in. I work across businesses and partnerships, social enterprises, and mission-driven organisations. The common ground is the seat you’re sitting in, not the industry you’re in.