Grounded Energy + Championship-Level Competitor +

High performance coach for high achievers & visionaries

What qualifies me as a top high performance coach? For starters, I am an elite level performer myself.

There are only a few people on the planet who understand the language of high performance and success, and who can speak it from real world, lived experience.

It’s only those who’ve hurled themselves into the abyss to create something impossible, enviable, crazy, and strange to most of the world, who ‘get’ the pressure, and isolation, and hilarity that come with it.

A lot of success comes with a lot of insecurity people never see or understand.

A lot of great success comes from the tiniest shifts.

And when you’re at the very top, there’s another problem. You need the self-motivation, self-discipline, and commitment necessary to become a focused, mentally-tough-pro – or else it can get very boring.

Most people know me as a championship-level sports dog owner and trainer.

I’ve trained 3 dogs to competition level, and recently took the third to championship level in record time.

I was the first professionally qualified high-performance coach to bring elite sports performance psychology to UK competitive obedience.

I qualified as a nurse and have a degree in public sector management. I built a career transforming healthcare services to make them easily accessible and more effective.

I’ve been a leadership consultant to high level leaders, and a master executive coach trainer for nearly two decades. I’ve taught thousands of other coaches at the highest professional level.

None of this is to brag, but to show that when I talk about ‘high-performance’, I’m speaking from experience, not just repeating a fancy theory or concept I read in a book.

Most people can’t relate to what it takes to get somewhere that seems impressive on the outside. And most people would not be willing to do what it takes if they knew.

It’s not always pretty at the top. People want you to fail (especially if there’s only one place at the top), and simultaneously want you to be perfect. The price of failure seems higher. But the rewards are greater too.

Where once it was expected you’d say yes to everything to get where you are, the discipline becomes being willing to disappoint others more than ever, so you can stay focused. It can feel both isolating and liberating.

I have a knack for helping people who are beginners, but put me in front of someone at the top of their game and I excel, because I can see (and will tell them) with laser focused clarity, the tiniest thing they could do to shift their performance and elevate their results.

High achievers crave this kind of feedback and connection with a coach. I teach them how to fish – and the feast becomes irresistible.

Other things about me:

• At 40 years old, I became unexpectedly single, and went in search of a new life, with little more than the money in my pocket and the clothes on my back. I left a secure, career for life, and started my coaching practice from scratch, with no idea what the hell I was doing. Now I do what I love with clients I love.
• I’m a recovering control freak
• I say fuck a lot
• I used to play a trumpet and violin
• I’m nearly 60
• I’ve been tea/coffee total for 5 years
• I live in a quirky cottage, in a pretty village. I travel the UK, doing the sport I love with my dogs at the highest level, and staying in the best dog friendly, quirky, cottages along the way.
• By far the worst thing that ever happened to me was losing my mum when I was 17.
• I didn’t have a dog until I was in my 40’s.
• I’ve been described as having the rare ability to move from profound insight to humour, to really land a message.
• I live happily unmarried with Mark and I’m step-mum to two (now grown up) children.
• A huge part of my life revolves around the fact I’ve been a carer for the last two years – one of the growing army world- wide. My lovely Mark woke up one morning in agony…unable to move. He has been suffering with chronic pain ever since. Chronic pain sufferers and their carers do hero’s work. They create new lives despite the challenges they face.