I changed the setting.
The pattern came with me.

I spent 18 years in education as a teacher, deputy principal and principal. For more than ten years, I was a successful leader: the person people called on to help, to step up and to take on more. And still, I never felt I was doing enough.

Eventually, I broke. I blamed the system. I stepped away, but moving into private enterprise and then my own business didn’t stop the same thoughts and behaviours showing up. The setting had changed. What was driving me hadn’t.

I began to recognise the unconscious patterns I had carried with me. Awareness gave me a way to see them, question them and choose differently. That realisation became the heart of The Unconscious Leader.

I retrained as an emotional intelligence coach. Now I bring my lived experience of leadership inside complex systems to the decisions, expectations and pressures my clients face every day. We look at what is happening around you, and what is happening within you as you navigate it.