Why I understand HR

I spent over 25 years working in senior HR roles, operating at the intersection of people, performance, risk, and organisational reality.

I know first-hand the pressure that comes with holding complexity, navigating competing agendas, and being scrutinised from all sides - often while carrying responsibility without authority, and impact without support.

HR work is demanding not just because of what you do, but because of what you’re required to hold - emotionally, ethically, and psychologically.

Over time, I saw a pattern which became impossible to ignore.

Highly capable HR professionals - people with integrity, resilience, and deep commitment - were quietly becoming exhausted, doubting themselves, or questioning whether they could keep doing this work at all.

Not because they lacked skill or strength.

But because of the environments they were operating in: toxic cultures, unboundaried leadership, relentless scrutiny, political posturing and the unspoken expectation that HR would absorb the emotional impact of it all.

Too often, they were left carrying this alone.

Eventually, it became clear that this was the work I wanted - and needed - to do.

In 2021, I made the decision to leave corporate HR and build a coaching practice focused entirely on supporting HR professionals. Not as a side offering alongside other work - it’s my passion and sole professional focus.

I do this work because I know what it costs when capable HR professionals lose confidence, clarity and connection to their authentic selves.

My coaching creates a calm, confidential space where experienced HR leaders can slow things down, make sense of what’s really happening beneath the surface, and begin to untangle themselves from patterns of over-responsibility, self-doubt, and emotional exhaustion.

I don’t coach to fix, push or help people develop a thicker skin.

I coach to help people reconnect with their own authority, judgement and truth - so they can make clear, grounded choices about how they lead, where they stay and what they’re no longer willing to carry.

That’s why I do this work.