You’re busy every hour of the day and the business isn’t moving the way you know it could, because everything still comes through you. You already know most of what needs to change, and what has been missing is someone who will hold you to it and not let you off the hook when the week gets in the way.
If you’re nodding along, that’s treading water: plenty of effort and not enough direction, and with someone directing the movement, you go forward.
Leaders don’t need cheerleading. They need sharpening. That’s what I do.
I spend my working days with business owners who are brilliant at what they do and tired of carrying all of it themselves, giving them an hour and a half where their big, beautiful brain can do what it was designed to do, so they can untangle what is going on, see the patterns they have been too close to notice, and decide what they are going to do about it on Monday.
I know what it is like to stand in the middle of your own working life and wonder what you actually have, because in 2018 I was made redundant with a one-year-old and a three-year-old at home and had to answer that question for myself, and drawing it out of other people is now what I do every day.
I trained properly to do this, with an ILM Level 7 in Executive Coaching and Senior Level Mentoring, EMCC Senior Practitioner accreditation and a first-class degree in Psychology behind me, because in an industry where anyone can call themselves a coach, the people trusting me with their business deserve someone who has done the work.
Some business owners want an hour and a half on their own with me every few weeks, where we take the business and everything going on in their head apart properly and put it back together in a better order, and that is what my 1:1 executive coaching is for.
Others do their best thinking round a table with a handful of other business owners who know exactly what it is like to have everything come through them, and that is the group programme: three mornings in Silsden with a small group, with the next cohort starting on Thursday 4th February 2027.
I’m based in Silsden, West Yorkshire, within easy reach of Skipton, Keighley, Ilkley, Bradford and Leeds, and I coach business owners here in person and online across the UK.
Both work through the same three lenses I take every client through: Know Yourself, Raise Your Standards, and Lead at the Level You Need To.
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If you look after the development of people inside an organisation, everything I do for you is built around what your business needs at the time, so no two pieces of work look the same. Recently that has meant helping a leadership team agree the standard they expect from every manager, followed by a series of workshops to put it into practice, running sessions for graduates who will be leading the business in a few years’ time, and 1:1 and small group coaching for directors and senior managers.
I do individual development in a group sphere and build sessions around the real challenges in the room and the real people in front of me, so the best place to start is a conversation about what is going on in yours.
Business owners who are brilliant at what they do and tired of carrying all of it themselves, and directors and senior managers inside organisations.
Silsden, West Yorkshire, close to Skipton, Keighley, Ilkley, Bradford and Leeds. The group meets round my kitchen table in Silsden, and 1:1 coaching runs in person or online.
An ILM Level 7 in Executive Coaching and Senior Level Mentoring, EMCC Senior Practitioner accreditation and a first-class degree in Psychology, and I won New Business of the Year at the Keighley and Airedale Business Awards 2025.
1:1 is an hour and a half on your own with me, every few weeks or at intervals that work for you. The group is three mornings in Silsden, around a month apart, with a handful of other business owners. Both work through Know Yourself, Raise Your Standards and Lead at the Level You Need To.
The group programme is £1,500, and 1:1 coaching is £2,500 for six sessions over around six months, with more built in if you want to go deeper.
Book a chat with me, a free thirty-minute conversation about what’s going on and whether working together makes sense.
Every other Monday I take something I see in my coaching work with business owners and break it down into one step you can take that week, in around fifteen minutes, which is about the length of the drive between the school run and your first meeting.
If you want to put each episode to work, the Edge is a free email that arrives in every episode week and takes the step further in about five minutes.
The first call is free and takes thirty minutes, and we talk about where you are, where you want to be, and whether working together makes sense, and if it doesn’t, I will tell you.
