I am a creative business and life coach, a facilitator and a creative producer.  I have worked in the arts for all of my career, spending 13 years as Artistic Director of Toonspeak Young People's Theatre and, since then creating and engaging with a wide variety of participatory arts projects. 

I've founded a couple of social enterprises, See Think Make which focused on accreditation for creative learning projects with young people and Mrs Magooty which alieviated social isolation through craft, mainly beadwork.  Both of these elements still feature in my work, but I now deliver them all through this business.  If the pandemic taught me one thing, it was to make all my admin processes simpler!

I now apply my creativity, theatre experience and entrepreneurship into supporting interesting people and fabulous groups through coaching, facilitation, speaking and consultancy.

I love helping people connect to their creativity and a seriously love getting s**t done!  There are few finer ways to spend my days than combining my skills to produce events where people come together, connect, laugh, share and create. 

I'm a gentle rebel - I have aways forged a path of my own, sometimes without really meaning to.  I learn by doing so I know that I just need to dive in and work out how to do something by being active and just doing it.  This means I'm no stranger to failure and uncertainty is a close friend!

I studied BAhons Drama: Theatre Film and TV at the University of Bristol.  Whilst I was there, they started a new MA post grad in Cultural Performance which I very excitedly signed up for.  This post grad course was hands on and practical.  I explored applied theatre - ways of making performance outside traditional buildings and how theatre practice can help people in their everyday lives.  I lived and worked with Welfare State International and created performances and participatory theatre experiences on the streets of Cumbria, in a nursery school, in the dressing room of a theatre, in disused buildings and all sorts of places. 

Soon after I moved to Glasgow where I have stayed because it's a blooming brilliant city.  I have worked with a fabulous range of arts organisations as a producer, director, consultant and mentor across Scotland and now virtually all over the place. 

In 2019, I felt it was time to train in coaching.  I had been coaching informally in a lot of my work, but I really wanted to dive deeper and hone my skills. In 2020 I gained my diploma in Transformational Coaching at Animas and in 2021 achieved my Associate Certified Coach credentialling through the International Coaching Federation.

Ach it's cheesy but one thing I'm super proud of is my two kids.  The last piece of theatre I created was with them, called 3, 6 and 36 which were our ages at the time.  There's now young men and impressing me daily with their creativity, resilience and wisdom.

I love serendipitous things which happen as a result of me practicing a bit of radical generosity.  One is example is, from the back of a blog I wrote about Pottering (yes, just pottering about) I was invited on Woman's Hour as an expert.  An expert in pottering!!  That made me so happy.  And proud.

I'm super proud of my 121 and group clients. I really mean it when I call myself a challenging cheerleader - I really do hold you accountable but I also do a happy dance when you share a win. From hitting send on a pivotal email that changes everything, to gaining that sale, building confidence and resilience to land that dream job - I celebrate with you, supporting you along the way.

I'm also proud of particular client organisation projects, especially when something beautiful comes into being.  As an example, a while back I worked with a brilliant team of people to create a Creative Cookbook of Ideas with the National Trust of Scotland

Yes, I have a lot of strings to my bow in my business, but no, I'm not flighty because they all connect through creativity and supporting people to have the get up and go to achieve things and make stuff happen. 

My theatre experience comes in handy through all my work.  For example, how I use theatre techniques to gently heighten a space to make it a bit more special, safe and magic works in 1-2-1 coaching, in training sessions, on retreats, in events... everywhere!