Philosophy
At the heart of my coaching lies a simple but powerful belief:
Success should never come at the cost of your wellbeing, relationships, or happiness. Too often, senior leaders and professionals are told that achievement requires sacrifice. I challenge that narrative. My mission is to help ambitious talented people unlock your full potential while also strengthening their mental fitness, health, sense of purpose, and the joy they take in life.

Coaching with me isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about transformation that lasts, helping you excel in your work and thrive in your life. With the right tools, mindset, and support, you can achieve more than you imagined possible, without burning out along the way.
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  * Core Belief: Professional success and personal wellbeing are not mutually exclusive; both can be cultivated together.
  * Mission: To help professionals and leaders reach their full potential without sacrificing health, relationships, or happiness.
  * Approach: A holistic and evidence-based method blending psychology, science, and mindset work for sustainable impact.

 Methodological Foundations
My coaching framework is the result of years of study and practice, blending three proven disciplines into one integrated approach.
  1. From positive psychology, I bring a focus on strengths, resilience, purpose and meaning — helping you see what’s already working and expanding from that foundation. Positive Psychology based work cultivates resilience, optimism, and confidence and purposefulness. It enhances focus and sustainable motivation by aligning goals with vision, values and strengths.
  2. From performance science, I apply evidence-based techniques to structure your energy, time, and focus so you can consistently operate at your best and improve productivity.  This ensures measurable progress and sustainable efficiency.
  3. And from cognitive-behavioral strategies, I guide you in identifying and reframing unhelpful thought patterns that lead to self-sabotage and hold you back, replacing them with habits that fuel growth and confidence. This work creates practical mindset shifts that sustain long-term change.

When we work together, the process is as structured as it is personal. We begin by clarifying what “success” truly means for you - not just in terms of career milestones, but in the wider context of your life. We then create a practical roadmap that integrates high performance with deep fulfillment. Along the way, you’ll experiment with new behaviors, learn to see challenges differently, and adopt daily practices that reinforce both achievement and wellbeing.

Ultimately, my philosophy is that sustainable success comes not from working harder, but from working with greater clarity, balance, self-awareness and focus.


During my 20 years+ in HR, talent & organisation development and coaching I've learned that even the most talented, successful and powerful people get stuck, lost, overwhelmed, frustrated, uncertain time to time.

They also fear failure, feel like an imposter, procrastinate and battle various other limiting factors that hold them back from achieving their best, maintain a peace of mind, balance and wellbeing
 
​Their constant drive to achieve more and work hard combined with a high level of responsibility often leads to overwhelm, stress and burn out. That as a consequence creates the opposite - a reduction in productivity, damaging relationships, and all sorts of mental and physical wellbeing issues.  Especially those ambitious and highly capable individuals (and leaders) who are running businesses, leading teams and are in high-responsibility roles.

SO MY MISSION NOW is to help those talented individuals
*  Get unstuck, find their true, ideal direction - and improve focus and energy as a result
* Support and teach ways to strengthen their mental fitness and resilience to deal with challenges with more ease
*  To identify and overcome inner barriers and limiting factors that are currently creating stress and hindering their progress
*  To sharpen their focus so they create more impact,  develop, grow and succeed faster
* Become more productive, achieve more with less effort and more joy

In order to create a life, career and business on their own terms, aligned with what's most important to them, so they can make a difference in the world in their own unique way ​& create a life and business that fulfils them every day.

Some of the reasons for getting stuck, lost and overwhelmed 

Lack of clarity & alignment

A lack of clarity for our true purpose and ideal direction leads to losing sight of our dreams and what's most important to us. Therefore, we waste years dealing with what life throws at us, and working towards others' dreams
instead of focusing on moving towards what we really want.

​As a result we lose energy and motivation, become disengaged, frustrated and unfulfilled and we feel lost or stuck.

 Inner & External blocks

 External and internal factors hindering our progress and success -
​ for example fear, self-limiting beliefs, lack of confidence and self-belief, discouraging environments and people slow us down or even stop us from taking steps.
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This then leads to procrastination, slow (or no) progress and growth, stress, frustration, dissatisfaction, doubting ourselves and in some cases even an imbalance in our mental wellbeing.  

Conflicting priorities

When there is a lot going on and we lose focus on our direction and what makes real impact, we get tangled and start treading water. Putting a lot of effort in with no results.

Overwhelm, long hours of work, having to balance too many things and therefore wasting too much energy and time on things that don't make much impact can lead to burnout ​​
with significant impact on our wellbeing, family, business, career and life in general.

​& A lack of support and resources 
​not having people and resources to support our growth,
someone to listen and bounce ideas of, give us feedback and challenge us,
make us accountable, encourage and cheer us on when we feel uncertain or lack confidence to try something new, 
create the space and time to step back, think, plan and act with clarity and focus​
This is how the 'D.E.E. Method' was born.

Discovery | Empowerment | Enablement

My signature method combines a range of coaching techniques and methodologies, mainly based on positive psychology, performance science and cognitive behaviour science
and it is designed to help with all the above challenges.
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A powerful combination of tools, that won't only help you
*  progress faster and achieve more with less effort
*  strengthen mental fitness, resilience, confidence and ability to cope with challenges.
but also
* align life, career or business with your why, your purpose and improve work - life harmony 

I provide the all important accountability support, deep insight and clarity, tailored resources and encouragement to take the steps you need to take.

THE 3 STEPS IN THE   'D.E.E. METHOD'

DISCOVERY

  • Identifying where you are right now
  • And where you want to be - your vision
  • Understanding your inner resources and drivers that will help you achieve those, while also creating a fulfilling life, on your terms
  • Identifying your goals, so you can re-align your focus and best actions & creating the changes you need in order to drive your business or career forward, & live your life on your own terms.

EMPOWERMENT

Unleashing your potential by identifying, shifting & managing various blocks that have been holding you back so far.
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What is lingering underneath the surface that you may or may not be able to see right now - including external AND internal barriers.

​For example, fears, limiting beliefs, procrastination, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, people pleasing and other forms of self-sabotage
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ENABLEMENT

  • ​​Aligning and re-focusing your direction and strategic steps
  • Managing overwhelm and shifting focus to actions that will create more impact, and achieve results faster and with less effort.
  • ​Enhancing your motivation and productivity
  • Optimising your environment so it supports your progress
  • Identifying your development path
  • ​Powerful strategies to maintain high energy, drive and prevent burnout 
You will
  • Increasing your confidence, self-esteem, self-belief that you can in fact achieve those goals and dreams you desire
  • Reducing stress and frustration about the lack of progress
  • Improving your ability to respond to challenges that come your way on your journey in an effective and clear headed manner 
  • Improving your resilience and ability to cope with / lead change in an agile way.
  • Continue taking powerful steps forward

So you can achieve
  • SPEED                                   Achieve and exceed your goals faster  
  • WELLBEING                         Improve your mental and emotional wellbeing ​​
  • SELF-ACTUALISATION        Succeeding in a way that is your own, aligned with what feels right and powerful for you
                                                       Energising you at the same time, and creating a happy and fulfilled life overall as a result.  

Are you struggling with these challenges?
Are you ready to do what it takes to invest in yourself
​& speed up your success?

​If so, then I can help you
get unstuck and create your fulfilling career/business success
​on YOUR own terms.
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​Come and book a free Discovery / Intro call 
and see how I can help you speed up your success. 
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