Talent and leadership strategy for organisations who want to get it right
After 25 years in senior talent roles - including VP positions reporting to Chief People Officers in large global companies - I've seen what works and what wastes time and money.
I don't bring off-the-shelf frameworks or generic consulting models. I work with you to solve the specific leadership and talent challenges your organisation is facing right now.
Whether you're a FTSE 100 company or a scaling business, the work is always tailored to your context, your culture, and your people.
Talent & Succession Planning
You need the right people in your critical roles - not just today, but two years from now.
I help you identify your pivotal talent, design succession approaches that actually prepare people (not just fill in forms), and build the capability in your high-potentials to step up when it matters.
This isn't about nine-box grids and talent review meetings that go nowhere. It's about honest conversations about who's ready, who could be ready with the right support, and what you're going to do about the gaps that keep you awake at night.
What this looks like:
Designing talent strategies focused on your business-critical roles
Conducting honest assessments of leadership bench strength
Creating succession plans that develop people, not just document them
Facilitating talent conversations that drive real decisions
Leadership Development
Your managers and leaders need more than a two-day workshop and a workbook they'll never open again.
In professional cycling, they talk about 'having the legs' - the accumulated strength and capability built through consistent, purposeful training. Leadership development works the same way. Whether you're developing first-time managers or redesigning what leadership means across your entire organisation, I help you create programmes that build real capability - programmes that actually change how people lead, and that stick.
I've designed and delivered leadership development across industries and company sizes. The work is always customised to your challenges, but the principle stays the same: we're helping adults become better adults.
What this looks like:
Designing leadership development programmes from first-time managers to executives
Creating leadership frameworks that clarify expectations (without jargon)
Facilitating cohort-based development programmes
Coaching leaders through development programmes
Building internal capability to sustain leadership development
Leadership Team Effectiveness
Executive teams can be brilliant individually and dysfunctional collectively - like a cycling team where everyone's racing their own race.
If your leadership team is conflict-avoidant, hyper-political, or simply not operating as one team - you're not alone. The peloton teaches us that individual talent means nothing without coordination and trust. Some of the worst teams lead organisations, and long-term that casts a cultural shadow across the whole business..
I help diagnose what's really happening beneath the surface and facilitate the honest conversations you need to actually function as a team.
What this looks like:
Executive team diagnostics and assessments
Team coaching and facilitation
Off-sites designed around real issues, not trust falls
Navigating team dynamics and interpersonal challenges
Building team effectiveness that lasts beyond the facilitation
Additional Expertise
Given my experience in building and running award-winning global learning teams, I also work with organisations on learning strategy and capability frameworks - particularly during periods of transformation or when rethinking how learning gets delivered at scale. If you're looking for guidance on learning technology or capability building, let's talk.
