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I didn't take a straight path into this work. I began my career as a chemical engineer, later holding senior roles with ICI, DuPont, and Zeneca. Over time, I found myself drawn more to people — and how they respond when established ways of working and living no longer fit.
The way I work is shaped as much by lived experience as by professional training. I grew up in working-class Glasgow council tenements and became the first in my family to attend university. At 30, I went through a profound personal turning point that changed the direction of my life. That shift continues to inform how I support others through change, uncertainty, and transition.
In 2002, I founded The Awakened Leader Consultancy, where I partner with senior leaders and organisations as a coach, executive retreat facilitator, and speaker.
Clients value my ability to perceive what is really happening beneath the surface, name it clearly and hold the human reality of it all with calm and empathy. My approach is grounded in many years of contemplative practice — including over a decade of Vipassana meditation, alongside more than 20 years of journaling and dream work. These disciplines shape how I listen, how I connect, and how I work with leaders in periods of transition.
Outside of work, I have a deep love of poetry and horses. I divide my time between Edinburgh and Granada, where I ride in Las Alpujarras and continue honing my Spanish. My poetry has been published in several journals, and I aspire to write in Spanish too.
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My approach integrates evidence-based tools with depth practices to surface what sits beneath conscious awareness, including psychometrics, 360 feedback and work with shadow, dreams, mindfulness, and somatic practice. Together, these reveal the patterns shaping leadership and support deeper, more sustainable change.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
EE Cummings
