Twenty-five years in business. Now I help other people run theirs.
One-to-one mentoring for business owners and leaders working out what comes next, for the business, and for the person running it.
Why Work With Me
I co-direct a technology company with my husband, which we've run together for more than twenty-five years. Ten years ago I built a second business alongside it, The Social Giraffe, took it to six-figure years, taught over three thousand people through courses and challenges, and sold it. Earlier still, I worked in marketing on the Eden Project bid.
So when you bring me your business, I'm not translating it from a textbook. I've made the same decisions: about pricing, hiring, when to grow and when to hold, what to stop doing, and what it costs the person at the centre when the answer is always more.
That last part is why I trained in coaching, positive psychology, NLP and hypnotherapy as well. In a business you own, the strategy and the person running it are not two separate problems. Most support treats them as though they are.
The Pause to Power Pathway®
One-to-one mentoring for meaningful and lasting change
This is my signature work: a considered, personal mentoring relationship for people who are capable, already successful by most measures, and quietly aware that the way they got here isn't the way they want to keep going.
Growth decisions, including when not to grow. Pricing and positioning. Something you built out of something you loved, which has become a beast you can't control. Doing well by every visible measure, and still feeling that something fundamental is missing.
None of that requires a crisis. Most of the people I work with are doing well. That's usually why nobody thinks to ask how they're doing.
I knew that the way I was working was not how I wanted to do things, but I did not trust that I could do it differently. Now it is like night and day.
Sian — One-to-one client
Work With Your Team
Alongside the one-to-one work, I work with businesses and organisations on leadership mentoring, facilitated team sessions and away days, creative-thinking and problem-solving workshops, strategic pause sessions, change and transition support, and culture and values conversations.
If you're not sure which of those fits, start a conversation and we'll work it out.
Where the Pause Comes In
Everything I do comes back to one idea: good decisions are rarely made at speed.
Pause creates space. Space creates awareness. Awareness creates change. That's the whole of Power In The Pause®, and it holds as true for a pricing decision as it does for anything else.
I've also developed a set of creative practices that help people think clearly under pressure, not as decoration, but as a way of reaching answers that talking in circles won't reach. Some clients use them constantly. Others never do. The work is led by what you need.
Other Ways In
The Art of Pausing® App
Simple creative practices for a brain that won't switch off.
Discover The Art of Pausing®The Spiral Shift®
A free five-minute practice. A pen, a sheet of paper, five minutes.
Try The Spiral Shift®It Starts With a Conversation
No charge and no obligation. Tell me where the business is, what you're weighing up and what you'd like to be different. We'll work out whether working together makes sense. If it doesn't, I'll say so.
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