About me

I am an ICF-accredited (ACC) executive coach. I design and run coaching and development programmes for the industry's leading training organisations, including ScreenSkills, the NFTS and Amazon Prime Video Pathway, and coach senior individuals one-to-one as they navigate careers in and around television.

What I bring to that work is thirty-five years inside the industry itself. I'm an International Emmy-winning, BAFTA-nominated TV commissioner and executive producer who has commissioned and produced hundreds of hours of programming, including landmark natural history series, factual entertainment, news, live events, and documentaries. I have worked with some of the industry's most recognisable names while championing emerging talent.

I know what it takes to pitch, to win recommissions, to manage up and down simultaneously, to protect your creative vision while delivering commercially, and to navigate an industry that can be as brutal as it is exhilarating.

But increasingly, I found myself as interested in what was happening to the people around me as in the content itself. Mentoring and coaching became a central part of how I worked, and eventually, the thing I most wanted to do. Post-COVID, I formalised that shift, training as an Executive Coach at Henley Business School.

Beyond broadcasting, I write features - I've contributed to The Times, the FT, the Telegraph, and the Independent, and I currently write a monthly magazine column.