I get this question a lot. And if you’re not asking yourself how to become a good leader or how to scale your leadership capabilities, you’re leaving something on the table.

My approach to leadership coaching is highly personalized to unleash your potential and get you the step change you’re looking for. I get the challenges in ‘slowing down to speed up’ and developing leadership maturity because I’m committed to my own ongoing professional development and leaning into the discomfort that comes with this.

I'll let you in on a little secret: That step change you're looking for - in how you feel, in how you perform, in your leadership - isn't going to happen by searching 'out there'.  At this point in your career, it's no longer about finding the right training or the right book or the right expert to tell you what to do.

The blueprint for your way forward isn’t to be found outside you, it’s inside you.

Our increasingly complex, interconnected and fast-changing world is placing new demands on leaders.  Demands that cannot be met by traditional ‘Horizontal Growth’ initiatives like training that simply add more knowledge, skills or tools to your toolkit. To meet these challenges requires Vertical Development, expanded capacity to capitalize on the knowledge, skills and tools you already have.

Vertical Development can help you to:

• Better navigate complexity and uncertainty

• Develop greater behavioral flexibility and creativity to address challenges

• Cultivate deeper self-awareness and self-mastery

• Trust in your own internal compass when making decisions

• Improve your ability to handle conflict and deliver effective feedback

• Expand your ability to take a more more diverse range of perspectives

• Feel more self-confident.

If this resonates with you and you’d like to learn more about how I can help you on your leadership journey…

Certified Vertical Development leadership coaching 

What got you to where you are, won't get you to where you want to be.

The next level isn't simply a step change in what you know. It requires a step change in who you are being.

I specialize in one-to-one leadership coaching of executives, business owners and leaders in politics. 

With a flexible, remote-first approach to coaching, personal connection and fit comes first. You can find out more about what it’s like to work with me here. 

I am a certified leadership coach specializing in vertical development.  I support leaders to develop ways of thinking and being that enable them to successfully navigate the increasing complexity and uncertainty they face.

I’m passionate about enabling individuals to become more conscious, mature leaders, capable of addressing today’s challenges by embracing ever more expansive and agile mindsets. My clients include World Cup athletes, political leaders, business owners and corporate executives all around the globe.  As an outcome of my work, clients develop the capacity to see, in every situation, more options for transformational action and ways to creatively influence the systems they’re a part of. 

My own career has spanned numerous countries across three continents – first as an engineer, then as a management consultant at firms including EY and PwC, before launching my own businesses.  A former engineer and Division-I athlete, my research-based coaching methodology draws on adult stage (vertical) development and complexity theory, neuroscience, positive psychology and high-performance sport.

Whether it’s running a 102km ultramarathon, practicing humble vulnerability and embracing uncertainty, moving half-way around the world to a new country and culture, or sitting in silence for a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat, I am committed to embracing challenges not only to support my own ongoing developmental journey but to build empathy for the diversity of challenges my clients face as well.

My coaching style is warm, candid, observant and evidence-based.  My growing list of leadership coaching and vertical development qualifications includes:

• Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation)

• Results Associate Certified Coach (NeuroLeadership Group)

• Growth Edge Coaching Qualified (Growth Edge Coaching)

• Qualified Immunity to Change Facilitator (Minds at Work)

• Qualified Action Inquiry & Global Leadership Profile Coach (Global Leadership Associates)

2. As a professional coach committed to standards of excellence, I have chosen to pursue the distinction of earning an ICF Credential, engage in regular professional development including coaching supervision, and have sworn to adhere to the ICF Code of Ethics.  If you believe my conduct has in anyway breached the Code of Ethics, you can lodge a complaint here.

From time to time I’m published in these leading publications.