I’m originally from New York City.  After graduating with an honours English degree from Georgetown University in 1989, I reversed my mother’s journey to America at the same age by moving to London.  I bought my first suit and enthusiastically joined a graduate trainee scheme at the public relations consultancy, Edelman.

Four years later, I found myself disillusioned by what I had come to perceive as the somewhat deceptive nature of PR in the healthcare sector, which had become my specialty.  Realising my heart wasn’t in it, I gained a valuable lesson in ‘career course correction’.  I decided to go to business school to study the breadth and depth of business and figure out what I did want to do next.  Armed with an MBA (with distinction, to my astonishment after almost failing the first year) from London Business School, I joined Accenture’s change management practice where I specialised in post merger integration and lived out of a suitcase.

Finding my ‘work-life balance’ totally out of kilter, in 1997, I joined GHN, at the time the UK’s leading coaching company. After a year’s intensive apprenticeship alongside completing a four year part time counselling diploma from the Metanoia Institute, I began coaching senior executives across a range of industries. I had found my vocation and became an active contributor to GHN’s professional development, designing new coaching products and tools, a coaching competency framework, a coach induction programme and a coach performance management system.