About

At fifteen, I left home and moved into a caravan in my best friend's backyard. It was safer there.

Sitting in that caravan, I quietly decided that I was not good enough, that I would always be broke and that I would never achieve anything. I never said those words aloud. I just knew it.

I then spent the next twenty-six years proving that decision right.

Today I work with companies, teams and individuals who are ready to understand what is really driving their behaviour.

Before the workplace

My father died when I was four, and my mother was mostly absent. After the caravan, I lived in and out of other people's homes.

People called me a rebel. I found the wrong crowds, chose the wrong men and made decisions that looked reckless from the outside. At twenty-one, I had my son, and I grew up overnight.

But growing up did not automatically change what I believed about myself.

What changed it

I spent twenty-six years in corporate South Africa, including ten as a Learning and Development Manager. I designed programmes and worked closely with people at every level of business, focused on their personal development and wellbeing.

Then, deep into my career, I found myself with little more than a mattress after choosing the wrong life partner. Again.

That was the moment I had to confront an uncomfortable truth. I had spent years proving an old belief right.

I began studying coaching and qualified as a Master NLP Practitioner, not because I planned to become a coach, but because I needed to understand myself.

The belief that I was not good enough had never been a fact. It was a decision made by a frightened fifteen-year-old who did not yet have enough life experience to know any better.

And decisions can be revisited.

I was not what happened to me.

Unfinished decisions

I call these unfinished decisions. They are the conclusions we reach about ourselves during painful moments and then live off for years. You do not remember making the decision. It picks your career, your self-worth, your partners, the people you spend most of your time with, and the rooms you walk into.

That understanding shaped my book, Unfinished, which explores the emotional patterns beneath procrastination and why we become what we do in life.

A life dedicated to a greater purpose

I have my own business and am committed to developing people. My keynotes and coaching combine honest stories, practical insight, humour and conversations people can recognise themselves in.

I am not interested in telling people to think positively or become someone else. I help them question the beliefs and patterns that have been making decisions on their behalf, so they can choose what happens to their wellbeing and mental state next.

In three years of running my own business, I have worked with over 20 000 people across corporate teams, workshops and conference stages.