Meet the Founder
I arrived in London with £100. I built a career, qualified as a personal trainer and nutritional adviser, and was ready to leave property behind. Then a serious accident changed everything.
None of what followed was planned. All of it has been useful.
The long way round
A year later I studied Occupational Therapy, learning how people think, move, recover and rebuild. When I finished, I went back to property, fell into bid management and discovered I was good at it.
Ten years followed, with some of the most competitive pitches in the industry. I built a methodology on evidence: what makes people choose you, and how teams make high-stakes decisions together. That became my edge.
When the body says no
Years of powerlifting gave me back something the accident had taken. Raw power, discipline and proof that effort pays off. Then my spine decided otherwise.
Chronic pain forced another reinvention, a gentler one this time. I learned to listen, pace myself and stay calm when plans fell apart. That’s when I understood Grace as a necessity.
Feeling the fear and doing it anyway
The accident left me with PTSD that kept me off the road for over a decade. This year, after coaching, I got back behind the wheel.
Photography had sat dormant for ten years. Within six months of picking it up again, I was booking professional shoots.
Your story probably has the same shape. Something you’ve been circling. A fear that has been making your decisions for you without your consent. That’s exactly where we start.
What I bring
Strategy facilitator and coach
Trained LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator
Coaching diploma from The Coaching Academy (ICF-accredited programme)
DISC certified
BSc in Occupational Therapy
Qualified personal trainer and nutritional adviser
Ten years in bid management
I’m evidence-based in everything, because I have never been interested in insight that doesn’t hold up.
Who I work with
Teams that need to agree where they are heading. Individuals who want to back their own decisions.
A team can circle the same question for months, held back by something nobody has said out loud. A LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® day gives everyone a way to say it. One-to-one coaching helps each person act on it afterwards.
Why edge & grace
edge is the evidence. It’s clear thinking, the tough call, and the proof behind every recommendation. grace is the calm and the human touch that bring people with you.
Teams and individuals need both. Edge with no grace bruises people. Grace with no edge goes nowhere.
edge & grace exists because I needed it to. And because every person I have ever sat across from has needed it too.