About me
I started off coaching entrepreneurs juggling business and family, and my first book was born out of raising two young children alongside running my “middle-child” business. Graham and I met on Twitter, and after a manuscript swap and several coffees later in Birmingham, we joined forces and I became Think Productive’s first female Productivity Ninja.
My second book won the CMI Management Book of the Year’s Best Commuters Read, where judges called it “a breath of fresh air,” and my third book, Struggle, shortlisted as a Business Book Awards Work Life finalist, is an invitation to engage with change, challenge, disruption and disappointment in a fundamentally different way, one that shifts us out of survival mode to discover the surprising truth, beauty and opportunity hidden in life’s difficult moments.
I care about doing work in a way that does us good, as well as the good we’re doing out there in the world, and love working with creative, compassionate, talented people who care about being world changers, rather than world beaters. I live in Stafford in the middle of the UK, with my husband, our two teenage kids and a perpetually bouncy puppy, continually working on being a good-enough parent, most of the time, with intermittent lapses into hopelessness and brilliance.
What I help with
Productivity, team communication, hybrid working, delegation, feedback, navigating change, resilience, psychological safety
Workshops I deliver
The Way of the Productivity Ninja, How to be a Productivity Ninja, Getting Your Inbox to Zero, Supercharge Your Team Comms, Fixing Meetings, Delegate to Elevate, We Need to Talk, The Productivity Ninja’s Guide to Hybrid Working, Leading Hybrid Teams, Human Not Superhero, Struggle, Thriving Teams, 6 Weeks to Ninja, Influencing & Persuading
Qualifications & credentials
- The Speaker Awards, Virtual Speaker of the Year
- CMI Management Book of the Year, Commuter’s Read (How to be Really Productive)
- Business Book Awards Work Life Finalist and shortlisted for The People’s Book Prize (Struggle)
- Qualified coach
- NLP practitioner
- DISC facilitator
Books I’ve written
- 21 Ways to Manage the Stuff that Sucks Up Your Time, 2012 — order here
- How to be Really Productive: achieving clarity and getting results in a world where work never ends, Pearson, 2015 — order here
- Struggle: the surprising truth, beauty and opportunity hidden in life’s difficult moments, Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2021 — order here
Podcasts
What the Fear?! — listen here (also on Spotify, Apple and Amazon)
In the press
Full press archive — see here
What it’s like to work with me
Warm, engaging, refreshingly human, that’s the energy I aim to bring to every session. Progress, not perfection: how we work is highly personal, so expect conversation and connection that meets you where you’re at and leaves you seeing clearer, feeling lighter, and ready to take your next step.