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I balance a passion for people with a commercial mindset and believe everyone deserves to find joy in what they do.

When we experience joy, we thrive and grow. Joy makes us happier and allows us to be at our best; enhancing our creativity, engagement, agility and performance. This leads to better business results and provides a great experience for our customers. It also means we’re better partners, parents, and friends.

My passion and natural ability for people development and engagement was fostered during my 16 years in global FMCG at Mars. I spent some of my fondest years working with, developing and learning from some incredibly talented people and teams in a variety of customer facing, marketing and leadership roles.

I left Mars to pursue my passion and spent a few years learning about the “real world”- engaging with customers from top floor to shop floor, in organisations big and small and getting a feel for the dynamics, challenges and pleasures of working in a small business environment. Through these experiences, I realised where compassion exists, joy follows. Success doesn’t breed happiness; it’s happiness that breeds success. I also realised how lucky I had been to grow up in a business culture so rich in development and opportunity.

It really saddens me to know that global engagement is at just 15%. That is a lot of people, switching off their enormous potential when they walk through the workplace door. It is costing the UK economy over £4bn per year in days lost related to stress related illness alone.

So, I have made it my life work to change that. I am intent on using my experience to support businesses to build workplace cultures that thrive as human entities, as well as business and economic ones.

I co-founded Compassionate Cultures to ignite a Compassion revolution in the workplace. We work with organisations to develop Compassionate leaders and teams who know how to get the best from themselves and those around them; inspiring and encouraging each person they work with to thrive and grow and to find joy in what they do; making them and their organisation future fit.

I am an inspirer and collaborator, with a natural flair for bringing people together and creating highly energised and motivated teams. I gain great pleasure from building strong and lasting partnerships where your goals become my passion.

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing life can be”
Maya Angelou