About

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I live on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales and work with people all over the world. Face to face in London, Paris, Dubai and New York. Online everywhere else.

Before

I started as a software developer in 1980, at Standard Telecommunications Laboratories — one of the biggest research labs in Europe — as a roving programmer. Then nearly twelve years at Uniplex: developer, then sales, then years in the USA, then international sales and business development, especially in Japan and South East Asia.

After that, senior roles across startups, scaleups and listed companies. CTO at InterForum. COO at Consensus Business Group. CEO at Keyworld Investments. Chairman and CEO at Goldshore Holdings. I was a professional investor and a regulated financial advisor.

From 2011 I spent most of a decade mentoring and advising startups — MassChallenge, Microsoft Ventures, Wayra, EY, Startupbootcamp — and I was Chairman of the Mentor Panel at the New Entrepreneurs Foundation, a mentor at Oxford Saïd and London Business School, and a Visiting Lecturer at Imperial and Cass.

That is where I learned, at scale, what starting a business does to the people who start them.

The turn

During this time I had been coaching and mentoring around the world. I initially trained as a coach in 1992, so I had a couple of decades of experience. I realised that being an entrepreneur was more than just goals and motivation - it involved resilience and mindset, emotional trauma, and personal challenges.

I started to realise that coaching and mentoring wasn't enough for me to fully support the people I worked with. I'd had my own bleak moments as an entrepreneur. There were times when I thought I couldn't go on as an entrepreneur. And once when I thought I couldn't go on at all. I needed more support than a coach. My clients need more today.

I decided to make my move away from just coaching, and embrace psychotherapy as part of my practice. I trained as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor at Chrysalis for three years. Training as a therapist means facing your own demons head on, and coming to terms with them. It is not easy, but it is valuable.

I knew that I wanted to offer something that I wished had been available to me in my early years. Someone who could help me when it all got overwhelming, when I felt I had no one I could talk to who could relate to how I felt.

Someone who would listen, understand, and help me help myself.

That is what I became for my clients.

Now

I run a practice of coaching, therapy, supervision and team coaching. I write every week. I am finishing a framework for understanding change — three years in the making, built around two questions: am I being judgemental or curious, and am I being fearful or courageous?

The rest of me

I am a potter and ceramicist. Hare and Moon Pottery is based in North Yorkshire; I completed an HND in Ceramic Arts at Newcastle College in 2025 and my work is decorative, focused on alternative firing — Raku, Saggar and Pit Firing. I play the piano by ear and have never been able to read music. I have visited nearly sixty countries. I am autistic, which informs both how I write and how I work.