My fascination with people development started early in my 25+year Corporate career, I have always been a relator, intrigued by the individualisation and uniqueness of others. I naturally gravitated to working in Learning & Development functions where I could focus on helping individuals and teams to develop their brilliance, whilst optimising their performance. As a leader I concentrated on building the esteem of my own teams, through personalisation and strong connectedness; adopting a strengths based approach to work and development.

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This consistent and centred approach has contributed to building highly engaged and successful individuals and teams, delivering on major strategic projects and key campaigns. At the same times vastly improving the productivity of my teams by implementing greater structure and accountability, including strategic project and delivery management methods, whilst coaching and mentoring for high performance and greater collaboration.  

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At the heart of my focus I have a thirst for knowledge about people's strengths or super powers and a desire for them to understand and leverage these to be their authentic best selves every day and a determination to create opportunities for individuals and teams to work in their strengths to increase their energy, engagement and productivity. 

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I believe understanding and aligning our strengths, particularly when in transition is key to success - I personally experienced the power of strengths when I realised I was spending a lot of my time on activities that I performed really well and achieving goals, yet feeling de energised and lacking in motivation and satisfaction, this light bulb moment gave me the knowledge and impetus to consciously align my strengths; meaning that I now actively chose how to spend my time, doing what I love and practice integrating my signature strengths into my work and everyday life to optimise my energy and enjoyment, without diminishing my performance.