I work with clients to improve their quality of life at work and therefore their effectiveness and value-add by exploring how the way they think and behave restricts their ability to navigate and learn from their professional challenges and achieve their work life aspirations.

I help people understand themselves and others. This makes a huge difference in their life.

I have over twenty years of experience in the corporate world and 15 years of coaching*.

I profoundly believe that understanding how our thoughts shape our emotions and behaviour is key to getting to know ourselves and gaining more control over our lives, be it managing our negative reactions more comfortably, nurturing more satisfying relationships, communicating more effectively and thriving professionally and socially.

I see myself as a lifelong learner. My psychology, neuroscience and psychometry qualifications are all listed on my LinkedIn profile if you are curious about their detail.

* If you’re curious about how that transition went, click here to reach the bottom of this page

For those among you who like details…

My core methodology is cognitive behavioural theory which posits that our thoughts drive our behaviour. I will invite you to interrogate your thinking in order to broaden or reorient it – or both! I also leverage neuroscience so you work with your brain in mind and lean into your own neurobiology.

You will experience a sense of disentanglement as you illuminate your own cognitive and behavioural patterns.

I am also able to draw on a large body of knowledge of workplace and career progression challenges as well as hands-on managerial experience acquired over 23 years spent in the financial services industry, working in global organizations of different sizes and cultures and gradually building my career one stimulating role at a time.

I will challenge your views and encourage you to try new behaviours. I will share what I know and invite you to realise that you too know an awful lot that you are not making the most of. Solving your problems, progressing towards an important goal, you will feel reenergised, and both think more clearly and behave more effectively.

You will increasingly feel better within yourself and see an improvement in your relationships at work and home.

My journey from finance to coaching

The 2008 financial crisis led to a tightening in risk regulations which I disagreed with. I grew restless, disengaged. I was adrift. About the same time, a colleague gave me a book about life coaching telling me that my mentoring style was in fact coaching.

While still working, I enrolled on my first coaching course and… loved it! I later went deeper into psychology and neuroscience.

This might sound odd but I find coaching very similar to financial analysis: it’s about analysing people – which is as challenging as figuring out the risk components of a structured deal! – and therefore understanding the payoffs and trade-offs of a decision.

I remember thinking I lacked any credibility as a coach while I had worked hard to establish my credentials as a risk expert. I was also wary of starting anew, building a new career from scratch. Last but not least, I worried about being able to earn a living.

So how did I find the courage to take that leap of faith?

I got coached. By two wonderful, butt-kicking ladies.

Those Transformative Conversations allowed me to face my fear and do it anyway! – as the saying goes.

I realised I could: I just had to use my skills differently, apply my new knowledge and… believe in myself. I visualised the coach I would be. Then I became it,I started coaching while still working full-time, to test the waters. I reinvented myself slowly – but surely. I had support through it all. After nearly two years, I left my last job. It took me two more years to feel legitimate, and a bit more time to have a busy diary.

Qualifications and accreditation

I hold an Advanced Certificate in Psychological Coaching recognised by the British Psychological Society with which I am licensed to practice.

I also hold an Advanced Certificate in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies and Stress Management and two Post-Graduate Certificates in Neuro-behavioural Modelling and Applied Neuroscience in Organisations.

While I choose not to practice as a therapist/counsellor, I believe my studies allow me to work at a deep level leveraging my robust understanding of human nature and the psyche.

A practice integrating coaching and therapy is known as ‘personal consultancy’.

I have trained in a number of complementary fields, such as mindfulness, neuro-behavioural modelling, motivational interviewing, systemic coaching, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Finally, I am accredited in several psychometric tools (details on LinkedIn).

I am an accredited Executive Coach with the Association for Professional Coaching and Supervision (APECS) and a member of the Association for Coaching, the International Coaching Federation and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. I subscribe to these organisations’ joint Code of Conduct for Coaching and Mentoring (see Global Code of Ethics).

I am also a member of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and also abide by to their Code of Ethics and Practice (see AREBT Ethics).

I am affiliated with the British Psychological Society and its Special Group in Coaching Psychology, as well as with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.

I did my undergraduate studies at Brown University, in the state of Rhode Island in the US.

Everything there is to know about my academic and professional track record is on LinkedIn.

Shall We Explore…

I hope the above was informative and that you explored a few of this site’s pages a bit more in detail. If you’re still unsure, don’t hesitate to contact me: I’ll be delighted to have an exploratory chat to see if I am the right resource for you at this time.

You can also get a feel for who I am and how I approach some work life challenges by browsing my library of videos and articles. Use the alphabetical menu to find a topic of interest: several videos and articles will be displayed. I hope you find something useful!