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As a former chemical engineer with international experience at ICI, DuPont, and Zeneca, I bring a fresh perspective to leadership and success.
Throughout my career, I’ve partnered with leaders during major organisational change—from mergers and acquisitions to the creation of new business entities. As a coach, I help senior executives navigate complex people challenges, strengthen leadership, and foster engagement across cultural and technological boundaries. My clients trust me to bring clarity, empathy, and insight when it matters most.
My own journey shapes the way I work. From a working-class background in Glasgow’s council tenements, I experienced a profound personal transformation at 30. Everything I thought I knew about myself fell away, and I stepped into an entirely new life. I retrained as a coach, founded The Awakened Leader Consultancy in 2002, and went on to become an award-winning speaker, executive retreat leader, podcast host, and poet.
Self-awareness, emotional clarity, and embodied presence are central to my work. As a dedicated Vipassana meditator with over a decade of daily practice and annual silent retreats, I integrate mindfulness into coaching, supported by more than 20 years of daily journaling and dream work. These practices help leaders develop authentic connection—the foundation of sustainable change.
Outside work, I’m passionate about horses and poetry. I divide my time between Edinburgh and Granada, where I enjoy horse riding in Las Alpujarras and honing my Spanish. My poetry has been published in several journals, and I aspire to write in Spanish one day.
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My holistic approach facilitates deep personal and organisational transformation. It emphasises systemic work, bringing unconscious patterns into consciousness through a range of methods including psychometric tools, 360 feedback, shadow and dream exploration, energy psychology, storytelling and mindfulness practices.
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
