I started out in the UK Music Industry at Sarm Studios and ZTT Records during the days of Frankie Goes to Hollywood and over-sized T-Shirts and the first Band Aid single – Do They Know It’s Christmas. It was around this time that I did my first meditation training in Transcendental Meditation.

Twelve years later whilst working with Youth and The Orb at Dragonfly Records, his production of a Crowded House album resulted in a trip to New Zealand and a decision for an adventurous move there with my young family.

In New Zealand I worked as a Strategic Advisor to three different Chief Executives of large government departments. I spent a lot of time in meetings with senior leaders where there was not much camaraderie and certainly not much joy or sense of wellbeing felt by my colleagues. 

One day there was a big celebration to welcome a new prestigious senior leader joining the organisation. Some local Māori women sang a beautiful traditional song with the words: “It's the People It's the People It's the People who are the heart and soul of our work.” As I listened to the soulful melody of this song I looked around at the people and it struck me as painfully sad that so many of them were looking miserable and like they had certainly not brought their hearts and souls to work that day. 

I was already a regular meditator and started teaching people how to meditate during our lunch breaks – sharing with them how this could help ease some of their stress and bring more compassion and joy into their lives at work.

A year or so later I became unwell and decided to undertake my first 10-day silent meditation retreat to help strengthen my own practice in advance of a gruelling two-year treatment schedule with 9 major surgeries and 8 months of chemotherapy. It was during this meditation retreat that I had an enormously powerful insight that I could formally train as a meditation teacher and take this wonderful practice to workplaces with the aim to bring more equanimity and compassion into our work environments so people can truly bring their hearts and soul to work.

That was nine years ago and since then, back home in the UK, in between completing a Masters degree (MPA) and many successful contracts leading complex organisational change as a Workplace Change Project Manager, I’ve managed to complete three formal qualifications as a Meditation Teacher and have delivered training at the British Red Cross, The Francis Crick Institute, IOSH, as well as to Brighton Business Leaders and many others.

After leading weekly Mindfulness and Meditation drop in sessions through the last two years of lockdown, in March 2022 I decided the time has come to deliver on my mission to improve the quality of our work experience and harmonise our people connections so that people can live more expansively as their full selves at work and thrive.

Contact me now to ask about having an Introductory & Taster session for your workplace.