My Approach

I work with leaders and teams and groups providing ground-breaking approaches to how they work together, talk together, and address changes and culture issues and challenges, including the climate, environmental and social crises we face.

By helping them to build engagement, skills and resilience, they can respond positively to the growing and interrelated challenges of today’s world.

I make human nature and the complex psychological reasons behind seemingly illogical behaviours and responses easy to understand, helping people to move into productive dialogue and positive action.

I have over 30 years’ experience in helping people to discover what makes them tick which helps them to have better conversations, better relationships and to make change happen. 

My Experience

I have worked with thousands of people and over 300 organisations, from owner-managed start ups to large multinationals.

I have coached leaders and managers across numerous areas of industry and public service, and have facilitated all kinds of events from board strategy awaydays and team building programmes through to helping groups of citizens to debate and take action on their environmental, health and community concerns.

A large part of my work has been in creating “Thinking Environments” for high quality thinking, connection and results, running programmes in house and teaching and qualifying professional Time to Think coaches, facilitators and consultants.

In 2010 I launched and led BACP Coaching, the coaching division of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and from 2013-2018 I chaired and led the 50-strong panel of executive coaches at the Centre for Entrepreneurs. I was a trustee of the BACP for 9 years and involved in many change projects that achieved greater public acceptance of mental health issues, and that highlighted the significant value of the talking therapies for people.

In September 2019, together with Zoe Cohen and (the late) Alison Whybrow, I co-authored a letter which was published in Coaching at Work magazine calling on the coaching community to recognise and respond to the unfolding climate and ecological crisis. I was a founding member of the Climate Coaching Alliance, and climate coaching columnist for Coaching at Work magazine from 2021-2023.

Alumna of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, and of the Oxford School of Climate Change, I am board member, facilitator, supervisor and speaker for the Climate Psychology Alliance, leading on our climate cafe training and supervision offerings.

My freely available climate conversations tool “With the Earth in Mind” is used internationally, and I design and deliver workshops and keynote talks on understanding our responses to climate and environmental change, on climate coaching & on climate leadership.

I am co-editor of “Holding the Hope: reviving psychological and spiritual agency in the face of climate change” (PCCS Books 2023).

In November 2024 I was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award for Coaching from Coaching at Work magazine.

Finally, I am a trustee of my local Transition Town (Transition Chipping Norton) and of a large Community Benefit Society based in Birmingham, the Active Wellbeing Society.

Main Studies, Qualifications & Training

  • Trained in designing, co-ordinating and delivering Citizens Assemblies by the Centre for Blue Democracy

  • Time to Think global faculty member, teaching the professional qualifying level coaching, facilitation and consultant courses

  • Alumna of Cambridge University Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Business Sustainability Management Course (2020) and of the Oxford University School of Climate Change for three years in a row (2019, 2020 & 2021)

  • Trained facilitator of “The Work That Reconnects”, (aka Active Hope) from Joanna Macy

  • Certified Climate Conscious Coach (Academy of Executive Coaching)

  • “Climate Aware Practitioner” recognised by “Psychology for a Safe Climate” in Australia

  • Certified Carbon Ambassador (Carbon Savvy / Resurgence)

  • Qualified Time to Think coach, facilitator, thinking partnership teacher, and consultant

  • BACP registered, accredited psychotherapeutic counsellor (and awarded Fellow of BACP) with diplomas in psychodynamic counselling, individual and group supervision, and stress management

  • Masters degree in strategic human resource management

  • Accredited MBTI, SDI, Leadership 360, and Talent Dynamics practitioner, with training in resilience and stress and post-trauma management, mental health, solution focused coaching, mediation, career management, neuropsychology,  organisational systems and group relations.

  • Qualified BWRT® (BrainWorking Recursive Therapy) level 1 practitioner, and registered member of BBRS (British BrainWorking Research Society).

  • Former SRN & RSCN.

Outside of work

I enjoy a vegan lifestyle, keeping fit with circuit training and HIIT, experiencing live music and theatre, and going for long walks in the countryside. 

I’m involved in several local climate and social change groups as a facilitator, speaker and trainer, provide free psychological and emotional support to climate activists and am a news and features writer for my local newspaper.