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I didn't take a straight path into this work.
I began my career as a chemical engineer, working internationally with ICI, DuPont, and Zeneca. Over time, my interest shifted more toward people — particularly how they respond when old ways of working and living no longer fit.
My own life journey shapes the way I work. Growing up in working-class Glasgow council tenements, I experienced a profound transformation at 30 that changed the course of my life. I retrained as a coach, founded The Awakened Leader Consultancy in 2002, and have since become an award-winning executive retreat leader, speaker, podcast host, and poet.
Clients tell me they value my empathy, depth of perception, and courage to name what's really happening. My approach is grounded in long-term personal practice: over a decade of Vipassana meditation, supported by more than 20 years of journaling and dream work. These practices aren't techniques — they shape how I live and help leaders create authentic connection, the foundation of lasting change.
Outside of work, I’m passionate about poetry and horses. I divide my time between Edinburgh and Granada, where I ride in Las Alpujarras and continue honing my Spanish. My poetry has been published in several journals, and I aspire to write in Spanish too.
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My approach combines evidence-based methods and depth practices — from psychometric assessments and 360-degree feedback to shadow work, dream work, energy psychology, storytelling, and mindfulness. Together, these tools bring unconscious patterns and behaviours into awareness, supporting deep leadership and organisational change.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
EE Cummings
