about
The life behind the work.
The work I do now grew out of many lives, many losses, and a long attention to what change asks of people.
About — Introduction
One of my earliest lessons came in my twenties while working at Shell.
I was helping experienced senior professionals learn to adopt and embrace new technology. What stayed with me wasn’t the software. It was watching capable people doubt themselves because the world had changed around them.
I remember how painful that was for many of them.
Over the years, I realised technology had never really been the point.
Change asks more of us than new skills. Sometimes it asks us to loosen our grip on who we thought we had to be, and return to what is still true.
What I began to notice
Again and again I found myself alongside people trying to find their footing as something important changed — at work, at home, in leadership, in business, in the world, and in life.
People rarely struggle only because they don’t know enough.
They struggle because something familiar has stopped holding.
A role. A business. A relationship. A way of working. A version of themselves.
And when that happens, the question is not only, “What do I do now?”
It is also “Who am I now, and what is life asking of me?”
This is not abstract for me
I have had to live this too.
I left a life and work that no longer fit. Built businesses. Lost or left businesses. Left familiar worlds behind. Rebuilt from very little. Created new worlds from scratch. Discovered that recovery and adaptation is rarely as simple as deciding or choosing.
I know what it is to discover that the old structure no longer holds.
I also know how long people can spend circling alone, trying to be responsible, practical, brave, and honest all at once.
What the work is now
Today, I work with people carrying decisions, pressure, responsibility, or change they can no longer keep circling.
The work is a private conversation.
We slow the situation down.
We separate:
what is true,
what is feared,
what is assumed,
what is hoped for,
what is being avoided,
and what is actually being asked of you.
Not so I can tell you what to do.
So that what is true, what is possible, and what matters most can be held together.
The ground this work stands on
I have lived across different worlds: city, village, and farm, boardroom and barefoot, formal study and practical building.
I studied education, social science, and environmental management. I have worked with people, teams, change, international corporations and small businesses, land, loss, pressure, and rebuilding.
That mix matters.
It means my work is not abstract. It is grounded in thought, consequence, and lived reality.
Credentials in brief
Herschel Girls’ School alumna
University of Cape Town (Social Science, Education, Environmental Management (Hons)
Consultant and Corporate Trainer (IT adoption & workplace skills)
Small-business founder.
Independent private conversation practice.
Worked & Learned at:
Shell Oil SA, Digitron Software & Technology, The New Clicks Group, Gabriel Shock Absorbers SA, among others.
What that gives the conversation
Plain-language clarity.
Tangles become understandable.
Good questions in order.
We find the question underneath the question.
A builder’s mindset.
No performance. No hacks. Only steps that can hold in real life.
Steadiness under pressure.
Enough space to see what is true.
Respect and room.
Some situations deserve time, care and proper attention.
Scope and discretion
This work is private and confidential.
It is not therapy, medical care, legal advice, or financial advice.
Where another kind of support is needed, I will say so clearly.
Begin with one conversation
If you are circling something important and need to see it more clearly, begin with one conversation.