MY STORY:

In 2007, disillusioned at university in London, knowing I was on the wrong course but feeling stuck, I came across something called life coaching. I checked it out, got excited when it sounded perfect for me, enrolled onto a course and then quit when I (or rather, my Inner Critic) decided I was too young to be a coach - who would listen to me?

Cue several years working in jobs I found boring, aside from a role with a welfare to work company which I loved as it meant working one to one with unemployed clients and coaching and advising them to support them into new roles. I was later made redundant from this role.

I’d left behind ideas of becoming a coach until, in a new leadership role, I was feeling overstretched, stressed, dealing with a case of Imposter Syndrome and determined not to quit. My leadership coach was a Co-Active coach and gave me the space and insights to work out what was going on beneath the surface. As a result, my confidence in my role grew significantly, as did my ability to handle self-doubt and to set boundaries. This was game-changing for me and it reignited my passion for coaching others.

I later trained with the Co-Active Training Institute, one of the world’s oldest & most respected coaching schools and gained my Certified Professional Co-Active Coach credential. I also gained my ACC with the International coaching Federation (ICF) of which I’m a member.

Today I work with a wide range of clients here in the UK, Europe and the US. Recent clients include BAME British television industry professionals and the British civil service. I have a track record of supporting my clients to overcome self-doubt, feel more confident, recognise their value and elevate their presence, often in environments where they don’t feel they can bring more of their full selves to work.

As a third-generation West Indian black woman, born and raised in the UK, from a working class background, I know what it is to navigate traditionally white spaces and the challenges facing organisations’ talent from black and other ‘minority’ ethnic backgrounds around unconscious bias & feeling unable to make their voices heard.

My expertise lies in both the profit and non-profit sectors where I supported hundreds of individuals into employment at all levels, later successfully managing multiple government funded contracts. My leadership and management experience extends to the supported accommodation sector where I successfully led cross-functioning teams across the West Midlands, as well as business development in the Nottingham area. Since 2018, I have been a board member of a women’s refuge in the West Midlands, Gilgal, where I share her expertise in people development, contract management and governance.

I currently live in Nottingham, UK with my husband, our funny and very determined toddler and our dog. As freedom is one of my core values, I love the fact that I get to work with clients as far away as the US from my home office, where I’m present with my family and never miss an Amazon delivery!