I did the things you're supposed to do as a young woman growing up on a farm in the North of England. Work hard. Cambridge. Then a career I threw myself into: over twenty years in finance, including fifteen years based in Asia, with INSEAD and Harvard Business School along the way. Always striving, always achieving, always reaching for the next thing.
I led an investment firm for a decade as Managing Partner and then Partner & CEO, helping build the firm to a peak AUM of USD 5.5bn.
From the outside it looked like it was going well, and in most objective ways it was.
But underneath, there was a quieter thread I kept pulling at: a wondering. Whether this was it. Whether I was doing the thing I was actually meant to do, or just the thing I was good at. The two aren't the same, and it took me a long time to notice the gap.
What I found on the other side of that wondering wasn't a neat answer. I'm suspicious of neat answers. It was a space to think honestly about what matters, and create enough steadiness to act on it. It turns out the questions that felt like a problem were the most useful thing about me.
Now I work with people who recognise that thread in themselves: capable, driven, quietly wondering whether the life they're running so hard to keep up with is the one they actually want.
I'm here to think alongside you, honestly, while you work it out.