Highly-skilled coach supporting clients to make sense of their careers and the frequently tricky world of work. Energetic, positive, and warm style that gets results. Challenging and supportive, my expertise spans people in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s across all manner of work-related areas, including finding direction, developjng networks, bouncing back from redundancy, building confidence and resilience, sharpening time management, career advancement, career progression, dealing with difficult conversations, handling line managers professionally, managing a professional personal brand, career change, job change, career pivoting, and career planning.I am a big believer in knowing yourself to sell yourself, celebrating achievements to build confidence and being proactive to meet your goals. My coaching will provide you with time to reflect on yourself and work-related challenges, space to observe your options and the motivation and support to take action.

• Coached domestic and international undergraduate and post graduate students across the arts, humanities and social sciences both face to face and via workshops. • Ran Brunel Business School’s MBA career development programme, delivering to multiple intakes. • Supported and advised on career choice, career resilience and confidence, self-marketing and job search. • During Covid 19 lock down started regular Zoom meet up sessions contributing to sharp rise in student engagement over the summer break • Instigated and mapped out careers team You Tube channel comprising short work-related videos to support Brunel’s recent graduates - good NSS feedback for the PDC. Strong team-work required• Led successful project in 2015-16 to roll out curriculum-embedded career workshops to all first-year students, working closely with academics to achieve this. • Strong advocate of getting students networking early and teaching them the tools – instigated innovative “round table” career events with alumni and sector workers to provide experiential learning

Associate coaching MBA students

Consultant coaching a wide range of people on career change and transition and redundancy

Creating and running goal setting and confidence building workshops for women returners, recent migrants and lone parents under the banner of SBC's Aurat project. Coached various small business owners through the Enterprise Links project also at SBC

City reporter, Evening Standard. Business writer covering drinks, leisure, retail and media sectors.