Who you're trusting with your thinking
I've been in the room. I know what leadership feels like.
Leadership can look very different from the outside than it feels from the inside. I've experienced the pressure, uncertainty, difficult decisions and responsibility that come with leading people and organisations.
Today, I use that experience alongside professional coaching to help leaders think more clearly, challenge their assumptions and find their own way forward.
I didn't become a coach because I wanted to tell people how to lead.
Throughout my career I've worked in leadership roles across the public, charity and commercial sectors. I've led people, managed change, dealt with organisational pressure and made decisions when there wasn't an obvious right answer.
And I've learned something important.
Leadership can be lonely.
Even when you have colleagues, teams, mentors and people around you, there aren't many places where you can say exactly what you're thinking without worrying about what someone else thinks.
That's one of the reasons I became a coach.
