To call me a coach doesn't quite capture what I do. I use coaching as one of the tools in my toolkit, but I am also a thinking partner, a cheerleader, a truth teller and, when it's needed, a source of wise counsel.

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Ultimately, I'm interested in one thing: bringing out the best in people.

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And I know something about becoming someone new.

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I have never been one to follow the predictable path. I began my career as a medical doctor, working in South Africa and the UK, before eventually leaving clinical practice and reinventing myself as an award-winning author, executive coach, leadership development facilitator and mindfulness practitioner.

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It wasn't a carefully mapped-out journey. It was a series of choices, questions, possibilities and moments when I had to trust that there was something on the other side of what I already knew.

That experience has shaped how I work with people today.

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I believe that there is often more available to us than we can currently see. That we can outgrow ways of thinking, stories and ideas about ourselves that once kept us safe. That we can want something before we know exactly how to get there.

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And that becoming is not about fixing what's wrong with us. It's about discovering what becomes possible when we stop living within the limits we've unconsciously placed around ourselves.

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My work sits at the intersection of possibility & practicality.

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I bring together my experience as a doctor, coach, facilitator, author and mindfulness practitioner to help people think differently, see themselves differently and move towards what matters to them.

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Sometimes that means asking the question no one else is asking.

Sometimes it means holding up a mirror.

Sometimes it means reminding someone of what they already know.

And sometimes it means saying, “I think you're capable of more than this.”

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I work particularly well with accomplished people who have already achieved a great deal - but who find themselves at a point where the old way of doing things no longer quite fits.

 

A new chapter may be calling.

They may be contemplating a change, wanting more from their lives or work, struggling to trust themselves, or simply sensing that they are ready for something different.

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Whatever brings us together, the work is ultimately about becoming.

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I also believe in doing the work myself.

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I do the most work on myself.

I read. I journal. I walk. I pay attention. I question my assumptions. I notice where I've become too comfortable with an old version of myself.

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I'm continually fine-tuning my internal instrument so that I can best serve the people I work with.

Because I don't believe in asking people to go somewhere I'm unwilling to go myself.

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A little more about me

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I am an internationally experienced executive coach and leadership development facilitator, an award-winning author and mindfulness practitioner.

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Before becoming a coach, I was a medical doctor. My book, Postmortem: The Doctor Who Walked Away, tells the story of leaving medicine and finding my way into a very different kind of work.

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Today, I work with leaders, professionals and other high-achieving people navigating change, growth and the question that sits underneath so many transitions: Who am I becoming now?

 

And perhaps the more interesting question: What might become possible if I trusted that person a little more?

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If you're asking those questions too, we may have something to talk about.