Support that fits your real life.

Second act coaching is a series of unhurried, one-to-one conversations for people standing at a turning point of any kind: personal, professional, or the sort that refuses to stay in one box. No scripts, no jargon, no pressure to perform your progress. We start with where you honestly are, not where you think you should be, and work out, together, what a good next step looks like for you.

Sessions run for about an hour, online or by phone. Between sessions you won’t be handed homework for the sake of it; you’ll leave each conversation with one or two small, doable things that fit inside your real life.

Second act coaching might be a good fit if you are:

• Standing at a turning point: a career change, a diagnosis, a recovery, an ending, a life that suddenly looks different to the one you planned.
• Tired of advice that sounds good and helps nothing.
• Ready to be honest with someone who will hold that honesty carefully.

How it works:

1. We have a short chat. Free, no obligation, just a conversation about where you’re at and whether this would actually be supportive.
2. We meet regularly. Most people start fortnightly. We adjust as life requires; life usually requires it.
3. You take small steps. Real ones. The kind you can do on a hard week.

Professional coaching is structured, accredited coaching practice. It uses recognised, evidence-based methods, most notably vertical development, and it suits people who want more than a good conversation: a deliberate, methodical way of growing.

Most training adds skills and knowledge. Vertical development works on something deeper: how you make sense of things. It grows your capacity to sit with complexity, hold competing priorities, and lead yourself and others through situations that have no tidy answer. In plain English, it is less about knowing more and more about seeing more.

Professional coaching might be a good fit if you are:

• A leader or professional whose challenges have outgrown your current ways of thinking.
• Working in complexity, where more effort and more information have stopped helping.
• Looking for deliberate, structured development rather than one-off inspiration.

How it works:

1. We have a short chat about what you’re working with and whether this approach is the right fit.
2. We establish a baseline. We look honestly at how you currently think, decide, and lead: where that serves you, and where it limits you.
3. We work in structured cycles. Regular sessions, with deliberate practices between them, so the development happens in your real work and not just in the room.

This work is grounded in my formal coaching accreditations and ongoing professional supervision; you can read more about my background on the About page.

Sometimes a room full of people needs to hear that hard things are allowed to be hard, and that they still get to move. I speak to workplaces, community groups, and events about turning points: recovery, reinvention, and finding your footing when the plan changes. Workshops take the same ideas deeper, with time to practise them in the room rather than just hear about them.

No slides full of jargon, no motivational theatre. Just a true story, told plainly, and a handful of small, practical things people can carry out of the room and actually use.

Speaking and workshops work well for:

• Teams navigating change: restructures, returns to work, new seasons.
• Community groups and events that want honesty rather than hype.
• Conferences after the third glossy keynote, when the room needs a breath.

How it works:

1. We have a short chat about your audience, your room, and what you’re hoping people walk away with.
2. I shape the session to fit. A twenty-minute talk or a half-day workshop, grounded either way.
3. Your people leave with something usable. A next step, not a slogan.