I‘ve worked at C-suite and with Senior Leadership across thirty years — I remain financially savvy, data literate and always human led.

A few project examples include:

Analysing team skill sets to build a clear hiring strategy and grow delivery capabilities

Creating conditions for successful leadership succession in a Founder-led agency

Building clarity in team structures and hierarchy to strengthen line management and productivity

Supporting newly promoted leaders through their transition into senior roles

Acting as a commercial sounding board to the Global CEO of an award-winning design agency

Serving as a discreet day-to-day coach to the CPO of a top-tier global design agency

Building confidence in a newly appointed Managing Director for a US-based business

Helping a fast-tracked Executive Creative Director rationalise commercial priorities against challenging performance targets

Building an entire leadership team for an independently owned international strategic design business across the US and UK

Alongside senior executive work, I support more junior team members on skills development — and have served as a mentor for the Brixton Finishing School.

Understanding the challenges businesses face and offering an objective, market-informed view of how to meet them — always through a human lens.

Examples include:

Sense-checking commercial models and building meaningful business performance KPIs

Mapping business disciplines and skill sets, running gap analysis across teams

Assessing organisational appetite, energy and readiness for change

Building the foundations of compelling employer brands

Acting as a sounding board for commercial challenges and opportunities as they emerge

Embedding DEI principles into hiring practices and team structures

I‘m lucky enough to have access to annual performance data from over fifty founder-led agencies, gathered by a leading HR consultancy. This gives me a genuinely market-informed, evidence-based view of what drives business performance — and what holds it back.

I use this insight to build values-driven people strategies that create measurable outcomes across:

Team engagement and cohesion

People management effectiveness

Business strategy and leadership performance

Working with Business Owners and Team Leaders to identify and resolve performance challenges with individuals, teams, management & leadership.

Helping people overcome behavioural barriers to build positive business impact

Unlocking individual potential by working with natural strengths and preferences

Cutting through inertia and building momentum where it matters

Building practical frameworks that support performance and career growth

Developing capability rooted in personal and organisational values

Growing confidence, self-belief and professional impact

Some of the most valuable work happens over time — building trust, navigating change and developing a clear sense of where you’re headed and how to get there.

I partner with individuals on an ongoing basis to provide:

A sounding board for live workplace challenges as they arise

Discreet, honest conversations about personal performance

Regular career progression check-ins and forward planning

A confidential space to work through sensitive professional issues

Encouragement and accountability around physical wellbeing — because how you feel physically shapes how you perform professionally

As a Maudsley Certified Enhanced Mental Health First Aider, I bring a trained, grounded perspective to one of the most important and often overlooked aspects of working life.

I work with business leaders and HR teams to identify when performance challenges may have deeper personal causes — and to help find the right professional support when it’s needed.

Making sure people feel genuinely safe at work is something I take to heart. In my view, it simply doesn’t make business sense to expect people to struggle on when the right help and support exists.

One-to-one mental health check-ins available.

The commercial challenges I take on are deliberately varied — no two projects are the same. Recent examples include:

Team sizing and workforce planning

Creating skills matrices, job descriptions and frameworks for measuring individual contribution

Competitive market analysis

Establishing and stress-testing new business propositions

Raising debt finance

Supporting the exit and sale of shareholdings

Introducing and structuring commercial partnerships

As part of the Journey Group of Companies, I also have access to a trusted network of specialist finance, HR and legal contacts — available to clients who need deeper support beyond our work together.

My work is primarily within the agency world — though my experience extends across luxury goods, entertainment & strategic consultancy businesses too.

Most of my work is confidential by nature — discretion is something I take as seriously as the work itself. I’m available on-site or remotely, and travel internationally for project work when needed.