About
For 27 years I have served as a witness to profound transitions of human experience.
Over the span of these 27 years I have enjoyed working in a diverse range of roles; these roles have helped me to bring different lenses to study and understand the unknown, and how to navigate it.
I help leaders solve the impact of uncertainty on themselves and their teams so they can achieve better decision-making processes without high levels of stress or expense from staff turnover and burnout.
I worked with firefighters in one of my counselling roles. We noticed that many of the new recruits were coming to our service with high levels of anxiety around the use of the breathing apparatus. This was an unknown area for us so, as a team, we decided to book ourselves onto the day of training for recruits. The pivotal moment came when I had been strapped into the apparatus; once sealed there isn’t any oxygen until you take your first breath. I feared I would suffocate and began to panic! The officer quickly removed my mask. Later I thought this was a great metaphor for courage when faced with the unknown – you have to take that first leap of faith into the unknown to survive.