Three disciplines, brought to the boardroom as one practice.
Director & Founder, Illume Coaching
Why coaching
Working with an experienced coach gives you room to think, plan, and then act — not just talk. Good coaching shines new light on things you're already close to, challenges your thinking, brings clarity to what you really want, and helps you find your way through whatever's been holding you back.
The practice
Most executive coaching draws on frameworks. Mine is a highly tailored approach, specific to you and drawing on over 25 years of coaching and business experience, a wide range of frameworks and coaching methodologies and in-depth psychological training. This means that our work together holds up under real pressure, not just in the room.
Trained and registered in psychological practice, working from the uniqueness of you, your personality, your psychological make-up and preferences rather than off-the-shelf models.
Over 25 years practising as a Master Executive Coach, translating psychological insight into the pace and language of senior leadership.
Real commercial grounding — first as a corporate finance professional, then across hundreds of corporates as a coach to senior leaders in a wide range of industries.
Working with a coach who is also a psychologist takes this further — unlocking resources you didn't realise you had. Learning to reframe your thinking and manage your emotions builds winning behaviours, and starts removing the mental blocks that get in your own way.
This work is about stretching what's already there, sharpening your strengths and making tangible, lasting changes to how you operate. Neuroscience is on your side here: the brain stays capable of forming new ways of thinking and behaving throughout life. You're not 'stuck with' how you are thinking or being — you have way more capacity for change than you might assume.
Who I work with
Some are performing well but want to clear the derailers still in their way. Others aren't yet working anywhere near peak capacity — or don't fully realise how capable they really are.
C-suite and senior executives at mid-to-large corporates, plus founders and senior leaders at smaller businesses.
Deep, genuine sector experience — energy, financial services, manufacturing, insurance, tech, creative industries, pharma and healthcare among them.
Based in Europe, working with leaders internationally.
In person or remote, built around how you actually work.
How I work
Every intervention is grounded in psychological evidence, not borrowed motivational language.
Senior work requires real confidentiality. That's a baseline here, not a selling point.
You'll get an honest read of what's happening, said plainly enough to act on.
Credentials
MSc, BSc·HCPC Registered Psychologist·Associate Fellow & Member, British Psychological Society (AFBPsS)·Fellow, Association for Coaching·AC Accredited Master Executive Coach