MY STORY

DOCTOR. Educator. COACH.

WHAT I BRING

I am a consultant anaesthesiologist and intensive care physician. In practice, that means I have spent twenty years in the places most people hope never to visit — operating theatres, intensive care units, helicopter landing scenes, disaster zones. I have kept people alive when seconds mattered. I have led teams through situations where the margin for error was zero. I have worked in Tanzania, France, Germany and the UK — learning to earn trust fast, communicate across language and hierarchy, and stay calm when everything around me wasn’t.
Coaching was not a career change. It was a natural extension of what I had always done — creating conditions where people could think clearly and act with confidence. Grounded in the Thinking Environment® and accredited with the EMCC, I now bring that same presence into leadership coaching and team development.

WHAT MAKES MY WORK DISTINCT

A combination that is genuinely rare — the capacity to act decisively in critical moments, and the patience to listen with compassion and care.

My Approach: The Thinking Environment®

Most coaching adds more input — advice, frameworks, solutions. My work does the opposite. It creates space for independent, high-quality thinking. No interruption. No premature advice. No pressure to perform.

My Background: High-Stakes Leadership

Over 20 years leading teams in pre-hospital medicine, critical care and complex surgery across the UK, Europe and Africa. Head of ICU. Head of HEMS. Humphry Davy Award winner. Consultant Anaesthesist at UCLH.

My Credentials

EMCC-accredited coach. Certificate of Education. Master Educator. International teaching experience including UCL. Human factors and CRM trainer. Simulation-based education and leadership facilitator.

Recognized Excellence in Leadership Development

Royal College of Anaesthesists Humphry Davy Award for innovative leadership at UCLH. Shortlisted for the Intensive Care Society Innovation Award. Award-winning educator with international teaching experience across the UK, Europe and Africa. Founder of a Master in Anaesthesia programme in Tanzania. MOOC in Transfer Medicine.

MY PATH

Medicine led me to education. Education led me to coaching. Each step taught me something the last one couldn’t — and all of it shapes how I work today.

FROM CRITICAL CARE TO COACHING

Anaesthesia is the speciality of last resort — the person in the room who takes over when everything else has failed or when the body needs protecting from what is about to happen to it. You work at the edge of consciousness, pain and survival. You learn to read a room, read a person, and make decisions with incomplete information. That training never leaves you. It is in how I listen, how I stay present, and how I help others find their way through uncertainty.