As individuals we change and grow and experience many transitions during the course of our working lives – whether we are following a career path, building a business or managing a more diverse work portfolio.

I can help guide and support you with both the ‘inner’ work and the ‘outer’, more visible development work necessary to present yourself and/or market your business in a clear, authentic and effective way. Especially if you have something significant and different to share and want to create valuable content from your ideas, work or IP.

I’ve worked independently for nearly 20 years following a marketing career that started in a small advertising agency and includes regional newspaper publishing and brands such as Shell and Cable & Wireless.

In 2000, after two encounters with redundancy, I started to explore life outside the corporate world. My coaching journey began a few years later and developed alongside my growing interest in helping people build successful, purpose-driven businesses, marketing propositions, and careers around who they really are – whatever ‘success’ means to them.

I’ve enjoyed working with small professional practices, consultants, coaches and trainers. Not-for-profit organisations and local government. Start-ups and bigger, established businesses. Dealing with topics as diverse as school meals, wildfowl and wetlands, green infrastructure, renewable energy and business development training for lawyers.

Fact file

• 20-year business and marketing career in publishing, energy, telecoms and learning and development, including Shell and Cable & Wireless, with a distinctly ‘coaching’ management style
• Plus 20 years working as a coach, mentor, consultant and thinking partner – with MDs, directors, business owners, marketing people, employed and independent professionals
• Experience and understanding of a wide range of business environments – in the private and public sector, from big brands to agile start ups
• Particular interests: nature, wildlife,  environment, countryside, coast, heritage, farming and agroecology
• Marketing specialisms: marketing, marketing communications and content marketing strategy, planning and organisation, content development, writing
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM), holder of the CIM Marketing Diploma
• Author of Content Marketing In A Week, in the Hodder & Stoughton ‘Teach Yourself’ series
• First trained as a coach with Rivas Palmer Foundation in 2004
• Authorised Now What? Programme Facilitator, training with Laura Berman Fortgang in 2017
• Completed Barefoot Coaching’s Coach Training Course for Business & Personal Coaching in 2018
• Further developed own coaching and thinking partner practice in order to work both in and with the natural environment (when appropriate and within safe boundaries)
• Member of the Association for Coaching, practising in line with the association’s global code of ethics
• Volunteer mentor within the CIM mentoring programme
• Committed to regular, professional coaching supervision and ongoing CPD in both coaching and marketing