Some people are told that asking too many questions is a problem. I was one of those people.
Turns out, it wasn’t a problem at all. It was the whole point.
Because the organisations that thrive aren’t the ones with all the answers. They’re the ones brave enough to stay curious and to recognise that the insight they’re searching for is rarely missing. It’s just been silent.
I bring together years of experience in the public sector and volunteering in my local community. Everything from being a Programme Director for large scale IT Change programmes to setting up local charities and small community groups. This brings a unique mix of skills and methods.
Much of my practice is rooted in my formal qualifications which include an MSc in People and Organisational Development from the highly regarded Roffey Park. I love adding a creative difference to this as can be seen by my Poem in Your Heart project. A book might not be your output but the methodology behind curating it is incredibly powerful. Poetry, storytelling and creative expression unlock things in organisations that a workshop and a slide deck simply can’t.
My approach starts with a simple but powerful premise: the insight your organisation needs is almost always already there, already in the building, already in your people. The work is creating the conditions for it to be heard. The results speak for themselves — improved staff retention, stronger cultures, greater efficiency — and teams who actually feel listened to.
I love walking into complex systems and finding the silent threads that are holding everything back. I have lost count of the time I took a call from my CEO to say that something was broken and asked to go and identify the problems and fix it.
I create the conditions where silent voices become heard, where heard voices become change, and where that change sticks because it came from inside rather than being imposed from outside. That is what Disrupting the Silence does.
Everything I do is built on Connection, Community, Conversation, Camaraderie, Creativity, Celebration and Compassion. These are not values on a wall. They are how I work in every room I enter.
Way before I founded Disrupting the Silence, I was the person who stayed after hours at the youth club, was a trustee at the children’s hospice, fought for grassroots women’s and disability football, chaired the NHS England Women’s Network. Thery all have one thing in common and support my belief that every voice deserves to be in the room.
That belief shows up in my client work, whether working with a large organisation on culture change, advising a company on staff voice mechanisms, or sitting with a group of SEND pupils in a school helping them turn their feelings into a community poem.
Same mission. Different rooms.
