Strategic, practical & trusted sounding board for business leaders
Trusted adviser on growth, change, reputation and leadership. Drawing on nearly 30 years' experience building businesses, leading agencies and advising organisations of all sizes.
How I Can Help
Business & Brand Communications
Aligning you brand narrative with your purpose and commercial direction. I work alongside leadership teams to clarify core messaging, protect brand reputation, and ensure how you communicate internally and externally reflects you values, business plan and growth strategy.
Growth, Change & Critical Moments
For leadership teams I offer support through important business moments. Whether you are navigating growth, restructuring, managing M&A, leadership changes or unexpected crisis, I provide steady, experienced counsel and senior ‘doing’ resource under pressure.
Agency & SME Advisory
Practical, peer to peer mentoring, a trusted experienced ‘head & hands’ to support founders and growing businesses. Having built, grown and exited by own award-winning, B Corp Comms Agency, I offer lived experience and no-nonsense strategic advice to help busy leaders unblock operational challenges, refine strategy and make decisions.
I’ve lived through most of the messy and joyful pieces of owning and running a small people based business. I’ll help you navigate all the scenarios, and find a pathway forward with confidence.
Cornwall, Coastal Sounding Board
As safe, confidential space for people facing transition in work & life. When you need time an space with someone you trust and who has lived experience to listen, understand and guide you. I create a space online or walking along Cornwall’s beautiful coastline, to allow you to offload, sense-check and work through challenges, consider alternative scenarios, and determine the way forward with confidence.
PROVEN TRUSTED ADVISOR
REAL WORLD BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
FIRST HAND UNDERSTANDING OF LEADERSHIP
Who I work with
After nearly three decades advising organisations and leading businesses of my own, I work best with people carrying responsibility. Founders. Agency owners. Leadership teams. Business leaders navigating growth, change, uncertainty or opportunity. My role is simple: to bring empathy, perspective, challenge and practical advice when it matters most.
I draw on my recent and past experience of advising businesses mostly in the following areas:
Brands & Businesses
Leadership Teams
Marketing, PR & Communications Teams
Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Businesses
Agency Founders, Leaders & Boards
SMEs & Start Ups
People Navigating Change
Why Work With Me?
I've spent my working life helping businesses & leaders navigate growth, change & opportunity.
I've worked with global brands, ambitious growth businesses, founders, investors, entrepreneurs and leadership teams. I've built and led my own businesses, advised difficult boards, supported acquisitions, managed change, navigated crises and helped organisations find clarity, momentum and growth.
My perspective hasn't come from business experience alone.
Alongside this, I've raised a family, balanced competing responsibilities, experienced loss, navigated uncertainty and learned that leadership rarely happens in isolation from the rest of life.
Those experiences have taught me that the most valuable thing you can offer is perspective, honesty and a safe space to think things through, or a business friend who will walk beside you and share the responsibility.
Clients often describe me as trusted, practical, commercially minded and someone who brings clarity to complexity. Read my recommendations and testimonials.
I help people navigate growth, change and opportunity with greater clarity, confidence and purpose.
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