For the latter part of my IT career I specialised in management consulting for IT organisations, eventually leading one of the UK's foremost teams in that niche. A major part of this work was around organisational development and the inevitable changes in people's behaviour that this required. My style quickly transformed into a facilitative rather than a directive one. I discovered that this made my life a lot easier and had another great benefit - it worked!

My interest in counselling was sparked, as it is for so many, by my own experiences of couple counselling. I trained part-time for three years for a Diploma in Counselling with an integrative person-centred and psychodynamic orientation and consolidated this with a spell working in a local counselling centre. It was here that I discovered the joy I get from working with someone and seeing them succeed in their personal development.

I have spent significant periods living and working overseas. The two years living in Australia provided a contrast to the period a year or two earlier working in Angola during the civil war there. The experience of seeing a people collectively in desperate poverty, in a society where few of the things I took for granted worked or were available gave me a new perspective on what is important in life.

In late 2001 I had the opportunity leave my employment and have a complete change of career. Coaching immediately presented itself as where I wanted to direct my energies. During the first half of 2002 I trained with Results Life Coaching and their model provides the structure for my work.

Life's a journey, so they say.
I can help with your sense of direction.