I spent the better part of two decades in financial services — first as a strategy consultant, then building and running a regional business across four markets. The role that taught me most was the one I nearly didn't take: a turnaround remit at a subsidiary that was losing money, losing talent, and losing its sense of purpose. We stabilised it in eighteen months. I stayed for four more years. The experience gave me what no education could: the specific texture of making decisions under pressure, in public, with incomplete information, while carrying the weight of other people's livelihoods.
I didn't come to coaching because I wanted to give back. I came to it because I kept having the same conversation — with a colleague facing a career decision, a founder navigating their first board conflict, a leader promoted into a role that suddenly felt too big. I was good at that conversation in a way I hadn't been at many other things. There was a moment with a former colleague — six hours at a kitchen table, working through whether she should leave the firm she'd built a career in — where I realised this was the thing I should be doing professionally, not occasionally.
I'm not the right coach for someone who wants validation that they're making the right call. I'm the right coach for someone who needs to think through a hard problem with someone who has faced a version of it — and can be honest about what they found. If you want reassurance, I can give you some. But if that's primarily what you're looking for, you'd be better served by a conversation with a trusted peer. What I offer is different: genuine engagement with the substance of the problem, and the experience to know which uncomfortable things are worth saying.
Sessions are direct. I ask questions that go further than most people in your professional life would permit themselves to ask. I have no stake in your decision going a particular way. I'm not your manager, not your investor, not your peer. That independence is the thing clients consistently tell me makes the engagement different. Between sessions, I'm available on WhatsApp — not as a helpline, but as a thinking partner for the moments that don't wait for a scheduled call. Those are often where the most important clarity arrives.