Bio:

After many years working in senior Human Resources and Learning and Development roles, I took the plunge and left a comfortable salary and established my own business as a NLP Master Coach specialising in Life and Career Coaching. Alongside my coaching business, I co-founded a hospitality business with my son.

?This experience taught me invaluable lessons about building businesses from scratch. Hospitality in particular is a difficult sector and despite challenges such as the Novichok incident in Salisbury instantly killing our tourist trade and a hard but successful legal battle against a large pub-co, we emerged as a thriving, award winning company. There were times when I thought we weren’t going to make it, when I wondered whether I would have enough money to pay my staff, let alone myself. However, these experiences taught me valuable lessons and provided me with profound personal growth.

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After a fulfilling seven-year journey, I returned to employment in HR Management, However, my heart remained devoted to coaching and mentoring, and driven by a desire to help others avoid making the mistakes I made, I decided to diversify my career. My passion is to help individuals and businesses grow, and so Catalyst was born.

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I have 30 years’ experience in Learning and Development and Human Resources leadership and this experience means I bring a wealth of knowledge to my work. I am a Fellow Member of the CIPD and have a BSc in Psychology. A trained NLP Master Practitioner I also qualified as a Psychometrician meaning I can bring a deep understanding of human behaviour and effective coaching and mentoring techniques. I also have a masters equivalent in Executive Coaching and Mentoring.