Executive Coaching and Leadership
Leadership, judgement, clear thinking
Executive coach to partners, senior professionals and firm leaders. Former solicitor and restructuring Managing Director.
- LLB (Hons), qualified solicitor
- 20 years in professional services
- ICF Associate Certified Coach
- TEDx speaker
Credentialed by the International Coaching Federation
Associate
Certified Coach
ICF
Member
Does this sound familiar?
You are very good at your job. That is not the problem.
Most senior professionals do not need more information, more hours or another resilience technique. They need better thinking, and somewhere confidential to do it.
- 01
Always reacting
Inbox-led days, too much resting on you personally, and no time left to think.
- 02
Success that feels wrong
It looks good from the outside. Privately you keep asking: is this it?
- 03
Performing competence
Over-preparing, second-guessing, and never quite admitting uncertainty.
- 04
Expert, now leader
Still doing too much of the work yourself, because nobody taught you the other job.
- 05
A decision you keep deferring
Partnership, promotion, leaving, staying. Every option feels risky, so nothing moves.
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Nobody to think out loud with
You cannot be fully honest with your firm, your team or your family.
How I work
Four ways to work together
One to one
Executive coaching
A confidential sounding board for partners and senior professionals carrying real responsibility.
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One to one
Leadership coaching
For people stepping into leadership, or leading without ever having been taught how.
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For firms
Programmes and panels
Coaching panels, leadership programmes, workshops and facilitation for law, accountancy and advisory firms.
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Events
Speaking
Keynotes on judgement, drift and sustainable leadership, from the TEDxLeith talk Stop Drifting, Start Deciding.
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Twenty years in professional services
I have sat where my clients sit
Law · Where it started
Qualified solicitor
LLB (Hons) and Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Edinburgh. Trained and qualified at an international law firm.
Restructuring · Most of my career
Managing Director
Led intellectual property valuation and disposition on some of the most high-profile UK insolvencies, working alongside administrators, lenders and boards.
Now · Today
Executive coach and consultant
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), TEDx speaker, and on the coaching panel of a major international law firm.
Restructuring mandates included
The Five Questions
The real choice is not stay or leave. It is drift or decide.
Script, values, strengths, environment, defaults. The five questions I wish someone had put in front of me twenty years earlier, and the spine of most of my coaching.
Credentials
Trained, credentialed and accountable
Coaching is not regulated, so anyone can call themselves a coach. The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is the largest global body for professional coaches. Its credentials are independently assessed and every holder works to its Code of Ethics.
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
The ICF's internationally recognised credential, awarded after accredited training, logged client coaching hours, mentor coaching and the ICF exam. Verify on Credly
Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
The International Coach Academy's ICF Level 2 accredited programme: 125 hours of coach education, including a performance assessment at professional coach level.
Member of the International Coaching Federation
Bound by the ICF Code of Ethics, including strict confidentiality.
TEDx speaker
Stop Drifting, Start Deciding, at TEDxLeith.
LLB (Hons), University of Edinburgh
Law degree and Diploma in Legal Practice. Qualified solicitor.