Welcome!

As the Founder of Lead from Within I work, with a small team, as an Advisor and Performance Coach to high-achieving leaders. From Executives at global companies to Founders and Entrepreneurial leaders at SMEs out to impact and inspire humanity at scale.

Being committed to a daily active evidence-based Meditative practice drives my superpower of helping leaders see their world with more awareness. I live in St Albans UK with my husband and our two young boys.

I’ve spent nearly two decades working in B2B Sales, mostly for and with leaders in the Tech Industry. I’ve led business growth across Sales and VP level Leadership roles at Silicon Valley-based companies.

As UK MD/VP of Optimizely (previously Episerver), I led and scaled their UK business and Commercial Sales for 3 years and helped see them through to a multi-million VC exit.  I’ve also spent a decade creating 6 and 7 figure B2B Sales deals with C level leaders at Global companies.

I took my Entrepreneur leap after and spent 5 years as the Founder and MD of an Executive Recruitment company that specialised in placing C-suite teams, and sales and technical leaders. Through my passion for serving others through business and career coaching I began to pivot the recruitment business at the turn of the pandemic to coaching Founding Teams of our SME clients.

A lifelong learner, I’ve trained and worked with some of the world’s biggest thought leaders and experts in business psychology, leadership, and mindset. More unconventionally, I’ve studied mindset, breathwork, and meditation for 10 years with two Himalayan monks. I invest in my own coaches too.

It’s been amazing at times, but it has been far from easy and I’ve experienced plenty of failures and setbacks along the way.

The other side of my story

I’ve been successful on paper but didn’t feel it.

As I built my career, I saw other leaders, who like me, could show to others that they “had it all”, but as I listened I knew they still felt empty or disconnected.

I also met inspiring leaders who had greater self-awareness and led from a place of authenticity and influence. They empowered their teams to create results for a win-win wherever they could.

What was their secret?

I threw myself into more books and MBA-level courses yet found none of them could help me evolve in the way I needed to consistently. Until I discovered the benefits of working with coaches.

I missed sales targets, lost 7 figure opportunities, hired the wrong people, been fired, and closed businesses.

I've felt alone and struggled with many things from my finances, relationships, health, and my identity. 

I returned to work 6 months after my first son was born because I felt like my career gave me little choice not to. 

I couldn’t keep hiding my tears in the toilets or kid myself that spending money on luxury holidays would help me re-set myself. The only way I could keep on transforming for the better personally and professionally was to find another way.

Thankfully 10 years ago after hitting burnout, I also hired my first Leadership coach and unexpectedly began the study of what is now an evidence-backed Meditation and Mental resilience practice proven to improve Stress, Anxiety and Insomnia by up to 82%

Through a combination of hiring world-class business coaches and discovering proven cognitive and emotional approaches to managing my own mental and emotional health, I learned to peel back layers of my limiting beliefs and redefined what success looked like. Over time I changed how I showed up in the world and created greater levels of financial and mental freedom.

After leaving the corporate world I created an Executive Recruitment business

BUT, when the “next level” of success came, I knew I had to evolve myself and my business to serve leaders in a way that brought a deeper sense of freedom, success, and impact for them. I knew how transformative coaching and mindset training had helped me and how it could help the leaders and entrepreneurs out there looking for answers to their own growth.

And so I'm here. Deeply committed to building and bringing all we know and learn to challenge, coach, and support Leaders on their journey of growth, success, and impact from the inside out.

If you are a leader who’s looking to take your career or business to the next level and are curious about how we may be able to work with you, connect with me to explore further.