about

This started with a risk, a lie, and no safety net.

This started with a risk, a lie, and no safety net.
I didn’t come from privilege. I was a reckless teen who quit uni, had zero experience, and talked my way into my first management role at 22. No training. No mentor. Just me, a job I wasn’t quite qualified for, and a team expecting leadership.

These days, I help fast-growth businesses scale - by fixing operational and people challenges that slow them down and building the teams, systems, and leaders that make growth possible. That might mean streamlining workflows, improving ways of working, tackling tricky and strategic projects, or developing managers so they can deliver at pace.

A few things I’ve done along the way

I spent the first part of my career leading large-scale transformation programmes in government - often with high stakes, tough audiences, and nowhere to hide.

I moved thousands of frontline police officers onto new digital systems.

I was seconded into the Prime Minister’s Cabinet to lead the security response to a major international summit when it was all going off the rails.

And I led what was, at the time, one of the largest change programmes in Australia’s housing sector - a multi-year transformation that meant engaging hundreds of stakeholder groups, shifting thousands of staff onto new systems, and doing it all without disrupting critical frontline services.

FROM GOVERNMENT TO GROWTH

I valued my background in government and large enterprise organisations - the complexity, the scale, the need to get things right. But I wanted to work in more entrepreneurial, fast-moving, dynamic, and innovative environments.

So I moved to the UK to start working with start-ups and scale-ups -companies that needed someone who could wear multiple hats, move at speed, make sense of chaos, and get them from A to B quickly.

At Quill, I redesigned the operating model so we could go from small-value projects to multi-million-pound contracts - building a new platform, delivery model, and a global freelance workforce along the way.

At Ometria, I built the people function from scratch, coached the founders into a high-performing exec team, streamlined workflows, and introduced hiring and performance practices that still hold up years later.

At Moss, I trained hundreds of managers across Europe, redesigned the talent acquisition function, led a company-wide ways of working initiative, and guided the organisation through a major restructure.

WHAT I BRING INTO EVERY GIG

I’m someone who can come in and very quickly get things done.

I’m extremely efficient, leveraging skills from my early career in project management, change management, team leadership, and stakeholder management.

I build credible relationships fast. I recognise patterns - spotting what’s broken, what needs to change, and how to make it happen. I change mindsets. I change hearts. I leave businesses and people stronger than they were when I arrived.

I’ve hired, built, and scaled teams. Designed and embedded people functions and strategies. Turned around toxic cultures. Rebuilt operations. Designed and launched products. Managed tricky, strategic, cross-functional projects. Led restructures and layoffs. Coached execs and first-time managers alike.

WHY I DO WHAT I DO

II love operations and scaling companies because I get a rush from bringing order, making things infinitely better, getting from A to B, and achieving things most people say can’t be done.

I started doing this as a consultancy because I found companies often needed extra firepower to achieve these big shifts, but once the work was done, it was a different team that would run the business day-to-day.

And in doing this work, I started to notice a pattern: I was consistently building capabilities in frontline managers. Coaching them, training them, giving them the tools to lead. Because when they aren’t set up to succeed, nothing scales the way it should. Fixing this layer wasn’t a nice-to-have - it was foundational.

That’s why I created The Step Up: a tactical, hands-on programme designed to give managers the skills and confidence to lead well, so that the business could scale without the growing pains.

WANT TO CHAT?

I love meeting new companies, so don’t be shy.