I help legal leaders do their best thinking when the stakes are highest.

I grew up in Yorkshire, where the Industrial Revolution began, and ended up in Silicon Valley, where the next one is already underway. That was never the plan, but it has shaped the work I do: helping people hold up, think clearly, and keep leading when everything around them is changing fast.

I started my career as a lawyer in the UK, built and scaled an employment practice, and made partner before 30. In 2014, I moved to California and rebuilt my work around a question I could not shake: what actually makes people, and the teams they lead, perform when it really counts?

After working with more than 200 lawyers, I have come to the same conclusion again and again. Performance rarely breaks down because of raw ability. It breaks down under pressure: when judgment gets clouded, communication frays, confidence wobbles, and people are left carrying too much without enough support. Get the human side right, and performance tends to follow.

That is the work I do now: working one to one with legal leaders, advising firms and in-house teams, and building tools that help legal teams perform at a high level without burning out the people inside them.

Away from work, I’m married with two young children and based in California, with a Yorkshire accent and sensibility still very much intact. Outside work, I’m usually at the beach, painting, or baking something.