Business mentoring for people who've built something real, and want the next stage to feel different.
Thoughtful, rigorous one-to-one support for business owners and leaders navigating growth, change or a decision that deserves more than a drive-time think.
I've spent over twenty-five years in business. Not as a commentator on it. In it.
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 one-to-one 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.
You might be growing and unsure which version of growth you actually want. You might have built something out of something you love and found you've created a beast you can't control: a business that can't yet run without you. You might be navigating a change: a new direction, a team, a market that's moved. Or you might be doing well by every visible measure and still feel that something fundamental is missing, with no space anywhere in which to stop, breathe, and work out what.
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.
What We Work On
- Growth and scaling decisions, including when not to scale
- Pricing, positioning and the offers that carry the business
- Building a business that doesn't depend on you being permanently available
- Recognising and shifting the patterns that make the same decisions hard every time
- Reconnecting with your own judgement, rather than crowdsourcing it
- Navigating change, personal or professional
- Clearer boundaries, and the confidence to hold them
- Turning insight into action that actually happens
The mix is practical strategy, coaching, positive psychology and honest challenge, in whatever combination the situation needs. Some sessions are spreadsheets and decisions. Some are the conversation underneath the decision. Most are both.
Not sure any of this is you yet? A free two-minute check can help you see it.
Where Does Your Business Go Next?A free two-minute checkI 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
Support That Goes Deeper
Most people who come to me have already done the courses. They've read the books, joined the groups, saved the frameworks. They are not short of information.
What they're short of is one person who knows their business properly, has no stake in flattering them, and will ask the question everyone else politely skirts.
I'm not here to hand you another strategy to add to the pile. I'm here to help you work out which of the ones you already have is the right one, and what's been stopping you acting on it.
Katie gives me pushback and helps me sit with what is really going on. That is so valuable.
Beth — One-to-one client
A Different Way to Grow
There's a version of business advice that asks you to abandon some part of yourself to get where you're going. Work harder. Care less. Push through. Scale first, feel later.
I don't think that's growth. I think it's a slower way of arriving somewhere you don't want to be. I've watched enough businesses get there to be confident about it.
Ambition and wellbeing have never been opposites. The businesses I most admire are run by people who worked that out early, built something durable, and still recognise themselves at the end of it. That's what this work is for.
I now work in a way that feels much more aligned and relaxed.
Sarah H. — Business owner and one-to-one client
Why This Work Is Different
Three things, plainly.
I've run businesses, on and offline, for a long time. Twenty-five years in technology, a second business built and sold alongside it, courses and communities in the thousands. I know what the numbers do and I know what the fear does.
I work on the strategy and the person at the same time. In an owner-led business, the bottleneck is rarely the plan. It's whatever keeps the plan from being executed. Sending those to two different professionals is slow and expensive.
I bring creative thinking into the room when it's useful. Not as decoration. It's a way of getting to answers that talking in circles won't reach. Through Power In The Pause® I've developed practices that help people think clearly under pressure. Some clients use them constantly. Others never do. The work is led by what you need.
Work With Businesses and Organisations
Alongside one-to-one mentoring, I work with teams and organisations on:
- Leadership mentoring and reflection
- Facilitated team sessions and away days
- Creative-thinking and problem-solving workshops
- Strategic pause sessions
- Change and transition support
- Culture and values conversations
- Bespoke projects
If you're not sure which of these fits, start a conversation and we'll work it out.
Retreats & Experiences
I host Power In The Pause® retreats and bring The Art of Pausing® into events, conferences and away days. Space to think, properly, away from the day-to-day. No artistic experience required, and none expected.
Start a Conversation
The first step is 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.
Frequently asked questions
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