I’m a charity leader, strategic consultant and leadership mentor with 16 years as a senior executive in the not-for-profit sector; and a career before that spanning commercial and public sector roles.

I’ve led organisations through some of the most demanding situations the sector presents. As CEO of YoungMinds, the UK’s leading children’s mental health charity, I led major transformation and growth: developed services and the culture, raised the charity’s national profile and significantly strengthened its impact at scale. As CEO of The Mix (then YouthNet), a major digital wellbeing service for young people, I navigated financial restructuring and diversification, transferred a service that no longer fitted our strategic direction to a new provider, and led major digital service transformation.

Alongside executive leadership, I've held a number of non-executive positions. I was a founding Trustee and Vice Chair of WeareCAST; have served on a number of influential sector, NHS and government bodies, including NHS Mental Health Programme Board, National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group, ITV Get Britain Talking Steering Group, UKCCIS (UK Council for Child Internet Safety) Filtering Working Group; and been a member of the Camelot National Lottery Advisory Group.

In my consultancy work, I have supported over 25 charities and social impact organisations, from small start ups to major national bodies. Supporting leaders on strategy, culture, governance and the leadership that unites people around a shared purpose and values.

I’m direct, warm, curious and genuinely invested in the people I work with. I passionately believe in the social impact sector’s ability to drive systemic change, improve lives and help build a fairer society; and that when leaders are supported well, organisations, and the communities they serve, are stronger for it.

Outside work, I’m often out exploring the UK on foot, enjoying the arts and culture London has to offer, or trying to get better at cooking.