Work with Me

Sometimes you need someone in the room who can see what’s really going on.

I work with leaders, teams and organisations on the human side of getting difficult things done. The conversations people are avoiding. The culture that isn’t quite matching the one on the slide. The things pressure makes people do.

Keynotes & Talks

I speak about leadership as it’s actually practised, not as we’d like to imagine it is.

I speak about trust, power, relationships, judgement and what happens to all of them when the pressure is real.

For conferences, leadership events and organisations that want people to think differently after I’ve left the room.

Workshops & Retreats

Some things need more than a keynote.

I work with leadership teams and groups who want to get underneath what’s actually happening and not just get through another team day.

We’ll surface what isn’t being said, make sense of what’s going on and work out what needs to change.

Practical enough to use and human enough to survive contact with actual people.

Leadership Advisory

It can be hard to see what’s going on when you’re inside the system.

I work with leaders and leadership teams when something important needs thinking through: a relationship that’s become difficult, a team dynamic they can’t quite read, a decision that won’t resolve, a cultural issue, a transition, or the nagging sense that the problem everyone is discussing isn’t actually the problem.

I listen, notice patterns, challenge assumptions, ask the question that maybe no one has asked yet and tell you what I see.

Sometimes that looks like coaching or advice; other times it’s getting the right people in a room and helping the real issue surface.

The Confident Manager

Not every kind of working together requires us to be in the same room.

The Confident Manager is my practical audio programme for managers who want useful help with the human realities of leading people — there when they need it, and designed to fit into the working day.

If you’re dealing with something human and think I might be useful, get in touch.