For twenty years I worked in the music industry, corralling unruly rock stars and tricky session musicians in my varied roles as Press Officer, Studio Manager, Personal Assistant, Union Rep and even a stint as Tour Nurse, for which my only qualifications were a bottle of gin, a tin of aspirins and a packet of Flintstone band-aids. 

In the late '90s I read Psychology at the University of Surrey, Roehampton and turned my attention from musicians to unruly teenagers as Psychology Tutor and Student Counsellor at one of London's best known independent sixth-form colleges, Mander Portman Woodward.

During my studies and while exploring an extensive postgraduate training in Jungian Psychoanalysis, I discovered Life Coaching.  I hired my first Coach to help me find a way to balance a career and raising children while continuing my studies.  It was from that experience that I switched track and began exploring training options in the coaching field.  Though Carl Gustav Jung remains my favourite intellectual pin-up, coaching is more in line with who I am.

I embarked on an accelerated learning program - The Art and Science of Coaching with Marilyn Atkinson, Noble Manhattan U.K. Practitioner Coach course and numerous teleclasses.  But it was when I signed on for Fifteen Proficiencies Intensive Workshop with Thomas J. Leonard in 2002 that I really stepped up my game.  Since moving back to the States, I have completed the Coach U Core Essentials Program and the experiential Landmark Education Curriculum for Living.