I coach and train Leaders and Business Founders to create better, more successful organisations through better leadership and performance skills. For 12 years I worked in various in-house roles in financial and fintech organisations, working with both inspiring leaders as well as some truly awful ones. Those roles where I worked under poor leadership were the ones I least enjoyed, performed worst and couldn’t wait to leave at the earliest opportunity. With corporate promotions and when I started my own PR agency and hired a team I became an ‘accidental’ leader. It didn't take long to realise that leadership is not always as easy as it looks through the employee lens, and I quickly learned that I needed to learn how to lead and manage people well if my business function or my own business was going to succeed! I engaged a coach to help me develop my communication, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and time management skills . In my position as a business founder I consistently invested in training to develop these interpersonal skills which were essential for managing and getting the best from my team of freelance, remote employees.And it worked …From 2018 – 2020 when myself and my husband went on a 2-year cycling adventure from London to New Zealand, my team not only maintained the business, but thrived, increasing our client bases and boosting revenues by 120%! Now I coach and train business founders and corporate leaders on how to be great leaders. My programmes are based on the principles of organisational and behavioural science to help them create environments where they and their people are motivated to work at their best. And they are getting results such as - - Achieving revenue targets- Improved employee retention- Improved employee satisfaction- Better glassdoor reviews and rankingsIf you want to find out how I can help you, connect today and let's talk!

Worked with start-ups, scale-ups and bluechip companies in Financial, FinTech, Tech and Professional Services as an external advisor and resource to build their brands and raise profile. I started as a solopreneur and as my business grew I hired a team of freelancers to help deliver client B2B marketing campaigns. Leading and managing the team became as much my job as the client work and I successfully developed team cohesion and performance to the level that I took a 2-year sabbatical with my team running the business - very successfully - in my absence. Client base increased and a revenue increase of 120% over 2 years!

Be the Business is a not-for-profit established to spearhead a business-led drive to help companies across the UK improve their performance. Launched in November 2017 with funding and support from the UK government and some of Britain’s leading companies, Be the Business works with the entire business community to share what works for today’s best businesses with every company that wants to learn and improve. As an advisory board member I support, coach and advise small and medium-sized business that are growing and developing their businesses - specifically around stakeholder management, employee engagement and managing change.

Myself and my husband undertook a 2-year long distance trip on our road bikes that took us from London to New Zealand via Scandinavia, Europe, India, South Asia, East Asia, Australia and New Zealand – returning to London 2 days before the first Covid lockdown. A journey that spanned 28 countries and 35,500km – with my team in London managing and growing my PR & Consulting business. Our blog which documented our journey can be read here. www.thelifecyclers.com

Responsible for launching and leading the global B2B and B2C marketing efforts across UK and Irish markets for Dublin-based foreign-exchange trading platform for high net worth individuals. As part of the senior management team this involved working across multiple business functions and creating engaged and high-functioning teams to work well together and deliver on corporate goals. Achieved 250+ new clients over 12 months.

I led the global marketing strategy, internal and external communications and PR for the market-leading institutional foreign exchange trading platform. The role involved strategic and tactical communication and marketing at both corporate and product level, specifically brand development and management, strategic marketing planning and delivery, and managing third-party relationships including suppliers, agencies and marketing partners. Managing a team of four as well as navigating the challenges of managing upwards to board level were as much part of my job as delivering marketing outputs. Looking back at this experience I realise that coaching and training to improve my leadership skills would have really helped me become a better people manager and to manage my stress levels!

I led marketing and communication strategies across the Capital Markets division and the various business segments within the division across global markets. I was also a key member of the rebranding committee following the Allianz Group's acquisition of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.This role involved managing a team of four within a wider global team of 10. Despite constant change across the wider organisation with a lot of uncertainty around takeovers and constant restructuting, our core team stayed intact for 5 years and continued to function and perform to the highest level for all our stakeholders.