Services
Work that matters, conversations that count
Coach Supervision
Clarity when you need it most
Being an executive coach offers autonomy, independence and satisfaction. And yet you can become trapped in your own bubble, drifting complacently from client to client. Or get lost in tricky, often subtle inter-personal and organisational dynamics. We all need guidance at times.
Supervision is a confidential relationship that allows coaches to reflect on themselves and develop a greater awareness of their practice, to keep learning, and to hold themselves to the highest professional standards. Helping you grow as a person and a practitioner to better serve your clients.
I offer individual supervision grounded in decades of coaching experience and informed by my training with Oxford Brookes University. I also serve as a Lead Accreditor with the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS), which gives me a rich opportunity to help the coaching profession evolve.
Let’s talk about how supervision can support you
Senior Leaders
Leadership as being, not just doing
Leading a team or a whole business is hard and often lonely. Decisions are rarely straightforward, while employees, stakeholders, customers and shareholders all expect you to get it right first time. Keeping them all happy feels impossible. The future is less certain and more volatile than ever. Sound familiar?
I work with leaders to help them stay grounded, connect with their values and purpose and find their own way forward. I provide a confidential space to explore options, voice concerns, and remember what really matters – that true leadership is about serving others.
I offer to meet outdoors and walking, and use online meetings only when they are essential, because this approach has a better chance of enabling meaningful change.
Custodian Leadership
Caring for future generations
Our relationship with the natural world needs to change. Instead of seeing it simply as a bottomless pit of resources for human benefit, we need to recognise we are part of nature. Failing to recognise this reality has led to our current social and environmental crises.
Since 2021, I have worked closely with Alison Barnes, CEO of The New Forest National Park, to develop a new approach to environmental leadership. We call this custodianship, a way of leading with others that is deeply grounded in a commitment to people and planet. We hope this can play some part in bringing about a changed relationship with the natural world.
We offer a two-month development programme for custodian leaders. Comprising four, one day workshops, action learning groups and online coaching, the programme equips people with an understanding of themselves and their role, and the skills and confidence to work across organisational and sector boundaries. More than 60 of the Park Authority’s own staff and other local partners in the New Forest have taken part so far.
Sport
Coaching the coaches
As a competitive canoeist I represented Australia at four World Slalom Championships through the 1980s. Since then, I have worked at the intersection of sport psychology, coach development and high performance, including as Sport Psychologist across seven Olympic Games. I am still competing in veterans' slalom, still coaching at Lee Valley Paddlesports Club, and still learning. That ongoing immersion in the sport matters, because the work I do with coaches is grounded in current experience, not distant memory.
I work as a sport psychologist with individual athletes, however my sport work increasingly centres on developing coaches. I deliver Paddle UK accredited Core Coach Training and Slalom discipline-specific programmes and I’m a Performance Coach Mentor.
Sport taught me most of what I know about performance under pressure, about what enables people to flourish rather than merely cope, and about the long-term responsibility that comes with being entrusted with someone else's development.
If you are a sport coach looking for mentoring, education or psychological support, or a national federation interested in coach development, I'd be glad to have a conversation.
Meaning in Life
Crossing into questions of purpose and faith
Many of us carry deep questions; What really matters? Where do I find meaning? What do I believe? The sort of questions that can feel hard to raise in everyday conversation, because we fear looking foolish, or are embarrassed to admit an interest in faith or spirituality.
Yet these questions have been with us for all time – and probably always will. Exploring them makes us human, and the answers we choose to live by will have a profound effect on our own and other’s lives.
I offer reflective space for people to explore questions of faith, purpose, and meaning — informed by Christian contemplative practices but without judgement or dogma.