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Background & Experience
What's my background?
I've spent over two decades working with leaders and organisations at the point of transition - scaling, restructuring, repositioning, and developing the leadership capability required to sustain performance.
My client work spans professional services, financial services, retail, luxury and consumer sectors, and has included individuals and teams from McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, Accenture, Walmart, Versace and Harrods, among others.
I hold a degree from the University of Cambridge and have trained extensively in executive coaching, leadership development, and the adult developmental frameworks that underpin my practice. My work has been recognised by industry bodies including the Learning & Performance Institute, ISE and Recruiter Magazine.
I work with a small number of senior leaders at any one time. That is intentional. The depth this work requires cannot be delivered at scale.
What is 'The Holonance Method’?
Brilliance
Brilliance is about results. Not just good results - exceptional ones. The kind that come from knowing your strengths precisely, deploying them with discipline, and operating consistently at the edge of your capability.
Most of the leaders I work with already have this in some measure. They've built careers on it. They're smart, driven, strategic and effective. They know how to get things done. I help them hone this.
But over time, Brilliance alone creates its own pressures. You become the person others rely on - which can slowly become the person others depend on. Your standards rise - and so does the gap between where you are and where you think you should be. The very qualities that made you exceptional begin to demand more of you than they return.
What is 'The Holonance Method’?
Wholeness
Wholeness is not a softer concept. We cannot lead well from a place of fragmentation - disconnected from ourselves, or from the people we're responsible for.
Wholeness begins inside - a stillness that holds under pressure, the ability to lead your inner system. But it also moves outward: into the relationships you build, the culture you shape, the meaning you make possible in the people around you. It is, at its core, about leading in service of something larger than your own success.
When that quality develops, something shifts. Decisions become cleaner. Trust comes easier. And the measure of what you're building changes - not only impressive, but worth inheriting.
Holonance then, is both Brilliance and Wholeness. It is being whole in oneself, part of a larger whole, and also bight, shining and brilliant.
What is my approach?
End-to-End Coaching
for Sustainable Results
Most leadership development works on the level of skills and behaviours. It asks: what should you do differently? My work also addresses a prior question: how are you currently making sense of the challenges you face - and is that still sufficient?
The most common barrier I see is not a lack of capability. It is a leadership operating system that worked brilliantly at one level of complexity, and is now being asked to do something it was never built for. The patterns that made you successful - the drive, the precision, the self-reliance - are now the very things creating friction.
I coach at the level of the operating system. Which means the work is not just about performing better inside your current frame. It is about expanding the frame itself. I bring a blend you don’t often find in one coach: commercial edge and spiritual depth.
On one side, as a former commercial director, I’m fluent in the realities senior leaders live in: pace, politics, stakeholder ecosystems, reputational exposure, and the emotional weight of decisions that disappoint good people. We don’t do beautiful insight that collapses on Monday morning. We translate insight into committed action that changes what happens in your diary, your conversations and your results.
On the other side, as a practicing Buddhist I bring mind training - not as philosophy, but as a leadership technology. Training attention changes judgement, emotional range, and the ability to act without being driven by fear, ego, or compulsive urgency. This is the quiet advantage behind purposeful presence.
I hold the following certifications:
The Holonance Method™
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Writing on leadership development, vertical growth, nervous-system literacy.
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