Do you need a hand getting a new idea off the ground?

It’s easy to get bogged down in ideas development and lose sight of your objective. Or never quite manage to put your finger on the one feature that will make your creative project stand out in the marketplace, or interesting to funders.

Hello!

I can help you break new ground.

As increasing numbers of people will tell you, a business coach is a sound investment in you, your ideas and your business. And as a tax deductible service, it won’t break the bank. In addition, I specialise in creative innovation: breaking new ground and making new projects stand out in the marketplace for the right reasons

I’ve been involved in incubating ideas and making them real for quite a while. I broke new ground in satellite television, as a BBC executive producer and a Channel 4 commissioning editor. I introduced changes in hospitals as a project manager. I was a trustee at NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, working with Sir David Puttnam. I brought new ideas to a recent creative enterprise and helped it reach new audiences.

I’m also trained to use NLP to help you tackle the habits and behaviours that may be holding you back.

If I think we are the right fit, I can help you refine, organise and manage your plan of action. Would you like that?

A bit about me

I was raised in Belfast, London and Hamburg and speak fluent German and professional standard French. I have worked in the UK, Zurich and Frankfurt. I have worked in the public and private sectors, in large and small businesses - and have run small businesses of my own, so I know how differently they work and feel.

I spent a large part of my career as a television journalist, producer and then executive, at the BBC and finally at Channel 4 as a Commissioning Editor, selecting and managing programme ideas pitched to me by independent production companies. I went on to project manage hospital reforms and reorganisations in two large London teaching hospitals. I set up and ran an after-school study centre in Brixton that taught maths and English, with great results.

I now specialise in coaching and mentoring people who need help turning a business or creative idea into reality, from inception through to business plan, from pitch through to launch ans beyond.

You can see that I relish a challenge. As a qualified business coach and a certified NLP coach, I now work with selected companies and individuals to help them meet theirs.