A bit about me: As an international athlete I was always curious about how the best trained so for a year I lived in east africa to learn from the top Kenyan distance runners. During my running career, which included a marathon best of 2hrs 18min, I was also lucky enough to spend time with some of the most experienced and generous coaches in sport.

After a career at Unilever doing work such as launching Vaseline Lip Therapy, pioneering early internet marketing from 1999-2002 and graduate recruitment & development I came to understand that the practices underpinning sustainable high performance apply whether you are trying to qualify for the Olympics, grow a small business or transform your organisation.

Since 2005 I have focused on bringing these performance practices to life through team coaching and resilience and personal coaching programmes. My experiences have included working with: fast growing organisations; mature multi-national businesses; not for profits; government and across a diverse range of industries as well as teaching on the University of Bath Executive MBA programme. I hold qualifications as a Co-Active Coach (CTI) and Systemic Team Coach (AoEC). Partnering with other coaches (ORSC Alchemy) brings creativity and learning to my work while delivering an even more impactful experience for clients.

From 2021-24 I worked in-house at Boston Consulting Group. Initially as the Team Coach for BCG Switzerland and then as the Senior Team Performance Coach for Central Europe where I worked with some of our highest stakes client projects, typically involving multi-disciplinary teams spread over multiple countries. As well as Team Coaching I mentored a group of Principals who spent 5 months as rotating coaches to help them develop their Leadership skills and Coaching Mindset to complement their outstanding consulting skills. This is the next generation of BCG partners. The third part of my role was working with Industry Practice Area leaders to build a ‘Team of Teams’ environment, creating a multiplier effect from the Team Coaching at project level to drive impact at scale.

Professionally I am member of the International Coach Federation, the Climate Coaching Alliance and the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce where I served as Chair of the Zürich Chapter and Executive Committee member from 2019-2023.

Running remains part of who I am and I get immense satisfaction from inspiring and supporting runners of all abilities to run faster or further, or both! My Masterclasses ‘Run like a Kenyan’ and ‘Marathon Magic’ are great fun, while teaching complete beginners to run has provided me with some incredibly rewarding moments and I have delivered Coach Education events for England Athletics.

At my best I bring: Curiosity - Hope - Perspective - Creativity

What you won't find on my CV: as an 11 year old, in 1984, we went on a family camping holiday - behind the Iron Curtain to Hungary, which was eye opening!; as a teenage competitor on ITV's quiz show, Blockbusters, I got to ask 'can I have a P please Bob?'; secretly I would like to run a pop-up restaurant for a night - Tavolata Rapperswil 2019? (update - 28 happy guests fed Caribbean style. I’m tempted to say never again but its like the marathon, a few days later and your mind heads towards the next one…)