The choices we make about work determine how we feel about our working lives. One of the important choices we make is about what success is for us. This is very individual and varies at different stages in our careers. When we make our choices about what success means for us then comparisons with other people and what other people think become much less relevant.I work with women who want to make different choices about their work and in the last few years examples include women who wanted to:~ Build confidence and change how they worked after maternity leave~ Bring more of themselves into their business and feel more fulfilled and authentic~ Find ways to handle challenging situations better~ Plan for the future when working towards retirement or a less involved role~ Reshape their business, define clear goals and create a strategic planAs a coach I listen carefully to you and support you in thinking through the choices you want to make and the steps you need to take to achieve your success.

As a trustee I contributed to strengthening the governance of TCW including setting up and chairing the finance and governance committee.

This was initially a maternity cover support role which was made permanent. I worked with a variety of small business clients providing accountancy and tax advice and services. I built good relationships with my clients and colleagues.My expertise with charities proved particularly useful. The experience I brought to this role meant that I was able to make a positive contribution immediately.

As a business consultant I used my expertise and experience in finance, HR and governance to support growing businesses.

Meeting Magic specialise in working with organisations to get the most out of when and how people meet. Partnering with forward-thinking individuals and groups in businesses across the world who are driven by passion and purpose. The work delivers insights that harness their power and potential to achieve great things through how they work together. three beliefs underpin the work:* The answer lies within – for most challenges faced in business the people within the organisation are in the best position to find the answers.* People own what they create – involving people in creating solutions to challenges brings stronger commitment to and momentum for change.* Meetings are a fundamental unit of work – dealing with complexity and pace of change means people need to work together more.Supporting clients in three main areas:* Setting new direction* Leaders who are new in role* Developing new ways of workingWorking to change our world one meeting at a time…

A strategic role retaining a broad remit with three main areas of focus, driving change, building organisational capability and governance and finance.Key achievements:Created three major change programmes covering strategic resourcing, HR strategy and digital technology to underpin delivery of strategic goals.Defined and agreed with whole organisation the IGD Values.Strengthened the leadership team through recruitment and creation of a programme to accelerate the development of this team.Improved communication of the vision and strategy for the organisation Led the development of a new proposition for IGD's training activities delivering a new online presence and organisational structure to drive future success

My remit covered HR, Finance, Legal, IT and Online Development, Communications, Event Management, Business Support and Facilities. Given this breadth developing the people within all of these teams was essential to ensure that we could deliver what IGD needed.Key achievements:Led improvement to external communication across IGD embedding change through a strong programme of activityDeveloped and implemented HR strategy covering reward (including total reward statements, benchmarking, and a new organisational bonus scheme) recruitment (new approach to define and test the skills and competencies required for each role providing training, coaching and support for recruiting managers) and development (championing development for all team members to build greater organisational capability)Created and delivered robust annual business planning programme resulting in owned actionable plans.Led the delivery of a new corporate website, www.igd.com involving redevelopment of front end and content management systems working with external suppliers and integration with CRM system.Created a director training programme to build sound understanding of the ethical, governance and legal aspects of being a director.Championed project and programme management.Developed the Communications Team to handle the full communications remit for an organisation like IGD.Built legal expertise within the team to support commercial activities and provide additional safeguard for IGD's interests.

Brought focus on developing better governance, improving financial controls and commercial business decision-making. This role allowed me to expand my skills and experience to take on new areas of responsibility including IT and HR.Key achievements:Improved governance ensuring clear delineation between charitable and trading activity and building deeper understanding of good governance across the entire team.Developed a Trustee training programme.Handled the closure of a sister charity including all communication with beneficiaries and staff redundancy.Controlled the highly sensitive change from final salary pension scheme to group personal pension scheme.Responsible for IT function from 2002; developed the team to provide the infrastructure, CRM and internal systems support required by IGD and created an online development team to maintain and develop IGD's four websites.Delivered new performance management and competency frameworks for IGD and introduced an annual staff survey.Took on the additional role of Business Learning Director between 2003 and 2005 with responsibility for all IGD training activities. Developed greater commercial focus securing business worth £0.5million and stabilising a fragile team.

Held many roles progressing from student accountant to senior manager. I developed a portfolio of clients including many charities and increased my expertise in the charity sector. Led numerous audit assignments and gained experience and understanding of many different types of business. Responsible for recruitment and training of student chartered accountants. Successfully completed four-year training contract with first time passes for all examinations.