PRIVATE COACHING FOR SENIOR HR LEADERS
RECONNECT WITH YOUR CONFIDENCE, JUDGEMENT AND AUTHORITY
WINNER | COACH OF THE YEAR 2026 | BRITISH HR AWARDS
Why I understand HR
I spent 30 years working in HR, including senior roles where I saw first-hand just how much the profession asks of the people doing it.
I understand the pressure of holding complexity, navigating competing agendas and being scrutinised from all sides - often while carrying responsibility without authority and impact without support.
HR is demanding not only because of what you do, but because of everything you are expected to hold - emotionally, ethically and professionally.
Over the years, I saw the same pattern again and again.
Highly capable HR professionals - people with experience, integrity and a deep commitment to their work - were becoming exhausted, losing confidence and questioning whether they could continue in a profession they had once loved.
Not because they lacked skill, strength or resilience.
But because relentless pressure, difficult leadership, damaging workplace cultures and the expectation that HR would absorb the emotional impact of it all had gradually worn them down.
Too often, they were carrying it alone.
In 2021, I decided to leave corporate HR and build a coaching practice devoted entirely to supporting HR and People leaders.
It isn’t something I offer alongside other work. It is the whole focus of my practice.
My experience and credentials
My background includes:
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30 years working in HR, mainly in senior corporate roles
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CIPD Level 7
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ICF-accredited coach
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NLP Master Practitioner
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More than 150 individual coaching clients
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Winner of Coach of the Year 2026 at the British HR Awards
This means I understand both sides of the conversation.
I understand the professional realities of senior HR leadership - and I have the coaching expertise to help you explore what is happening beneath the surface and create meaningful, lasting change.
Why I do this work
I know what it can cost when capable HR professionals lose confidence in themselves and become disconnected from their own judgement.
My coaching gives experienced HR leaders a calm, confidential place to slow things down, speak honestly and make sense of what is really happening.
It is not about fixing them, toughening them up or teaching them how to do their job.
It is about helping them separate their actual capability from what pressure, scrutiny or difficult experiences may have led them to believe about themselves.
And it is about helping them reconnect with the confidence, judgement and authority they already possess - so they can make clear, grounded decisions about how they lead, where they stay and what they are no longer willing to carry.
That is why I do this work.
