My story

I’m a UK-based consultant and accredited coach specialising in collaborative problem-solving. 

In other words, I’m all about sorting sh*t out together, and getting businesses and people unstuck.  

I’ve led highly recognised creative businesses in entertainment, culture, design and advertising and mentored brilliant creative people for over 20 years.

I’m a confident leader and decision-maker, but an even better wingwoman :)

I started my consultancy work as Fox & Wolf Consulting on return from Australia in 2015.

When COVID-19 hit, I took on full time, unpaid caring duties for my elderly (but surprisingly agile) parents and learned a substantial amount about Alzheimer’s and dementia, very quickly.

To create a flexible work option for myself, I retrained in Transformative Coaching with Animas and started Human Work Coach®.

I wanted to be there for those people returning to work post-pandemic with a whole new worldview. Everyone’s story had changed. We were dealing with a complex set of revised expectations of how, where and why we work.

A culture shift unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

It helps to be ‘industry-adjacent’. I extend all my lived leadership experience, operational thinking and global perspective to my clients and mentees. Leaders and aspiring leaders. Artists, producers, the recently redundant. Anyone who is interested in evolving with purpose.

But crucially, I’m also researching, learning and teaching new/innovative ways to coach and lead people through the broken systems and potential opportunities that have been thrust upon us through enforced change.

Equity and equality informs all of my work.

I’ve survived the extreme highs and lows of industry - the celebrations, the burnouts, the people and the politics - and learned to live somewhere in the middle. I wasn’t unscathed but I had learned what to do differently. I want people to experience a positive and productive working life, without compromising their values and sacrificing their mental health.

And I want that to apply to everyone, equally.

It can be done.  

And with a huge dose of compassion and (northern) humour, we can enjoy the work of getting there, together.