I am not the person who read about this.
The bank I worked for told me I could resign or be managed out on ill-health grounds. I had spent the years before that telling everyone things were busy but fine.
Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. Five years as the Institute of Directors' South West Ambassador for Wellbeing.
All accurate, all checkable, and none of it the reason anybody calls.
I have sat where you are sitting and got it wrong for long enough to need help.
The credentials came afterwards. They are the paperwork on an education I would not recommend to anyone.
Why that order matters
Most people who advise leaders on this studied it first and met it later, if at all. I met it first. That is not a better qualification in every respect. It is a narrower one, and it is the reason a chief executive will say something to me at nine at night that they would not put in an email.
What I am not is a clinician. I am not a therapist, I do not diagnose, and I do not treat. When something needs clinical care I say so early and help you find it, which is a different service and an honest one.
Where the work has been
Sectors most advisers never see the inside of. The pressures rhyme across all of them, but the vocabulary does not, and using the wrong one costs you the room in the first ten minutes.
-
Mining and resources
Cornish Lithium, 2022 to 2025
-
Hospitality
Soho House, 2019 to 2023. Edrington, 2021 to 2023, supporting bar staff nationally
-
Digital infrastructure
Global Switch, 2022 to 2024
-
Banking and finance
Where my own career ended
-
Higher education and research
Where the practice started
The record, in order
- 2015
Lighthouse Mentoring
Founded to support university students, then adapted for organisations after a former student asked for it. Still trading as Lighthouse Mentoring.
- 2019
The Lighthouse Collective
Founded, Managing Director and lead consultant.
- 2021
Institute of Directors' South West Ambassador for Wellbeing
The only Wellbeing Ambassador the IoD appointed anywhere in the country. Five years mentoring directors on wellbeing at board level. Stood down in 2026, having set out to hand on a working committee rather than sit indefinitely.
- 2022
Book of Beasties
CEO, then Chief Advisor, of the mental wellness card game company, through to 2026.
- 2024
Fellow, Royal Society for Public Health
Elected FRSPH.
- 2025
IoD Director of the Year, twice shortlisted
Finalist in both the Aspiring and Global categories, IoD England.
- 2025
Outcome Digital Marketing
Founded in Falmouth. Evidence-based growth work for smaller companies, still trading as Outcome Digital Marketing.
Also a Stevie Awards judge and a former TEDx organiser. The full list, with the people who have worked with me and what they said, is on the record.
The first conversation is free and goes nowhere else.
Write two lines about what is going on. I answer everything myself, usually inside a day.
Request a call