Commercial leadership meets deep coaching
Before I trained as a coach, I held senior roles including Chief Commercial Officer and Board Member of a global executive search firm. I also founded and exited my own consultancy. That commercial grounding means I understand what it’s like to lead under pressure and make big decisions with people, pace, and performance in mind.
I completed my coach training at Henley Business School and hold both ICF ACC and EMCC Senior Practitioner accreditation. My practice is also shaped by my own personal development and trauma work. I believe that sometimes talking it through isn’t enough, we need to peel back the layers to get to the heart of what’s really going on. Often, that’s made easier by getting out of our heads and into our bodies.
You can view professional background here on linked in.
Coaching that goes deeper
I work with smart, capable, brilliant people but that doesn’t mean they always find life and work easy. My clients come to Coaching ready to get beyond the surface to unpick patterns, shift stuckness, and reconnect with what really matters.
I hold space when things feel vulnerable, and offer challenge to break through old habits. I see through polished answers and gently push to get to what’s real because that’s where the real change happens.
Why Work With Me
I’ve spent most of my career working inside complex systems - leading through growth, pressure, and change, and seeing first-hand how easily leadership becomes performative, strained or disconnected from what actually matters.
Thorp Coaching brings together the things I’m deeply committed to: deep human connection, turning ideas and talent into meaningful success, and helping people and organisations do their best work well over time.
Most leaders don’t struggle because they lack capability or ambition. They struggle because the systems they’re operating in are demanding, fast-moving, and rarely designed to support reflection, good decision-making or how their brains actually work.
That’s where my work sits.
I work with leaders and organisations to build the capacity to think clearly, make decisions that hold up under pressure, and lead in a way that is both effective and sustainable.
This isn’t about fixing people or offering quick solutions. It’s about strengthening how humans function inside real-world contexts.
Clients often tell me the impact of this work goes beyond the workplace — improving relationships, perspective, and how they show up more broadly. That’s the nature of the work.
Why Work with Me
Credentials and Approach
✔️ Lived C-suite and board-level leadership experience
✔️ Henley Business School-trained executive coach
✔️ Accredited with ICF (ACC) and EMCC (Senior Practitioner)
✔️ Neuroinclusive, neuro-affirming approach
✔️ Grounded, evidence-based work that translates into real-world impact
Coaching in Nature
Much of this work happens in connection with nature, which I work with as a co-facilitator rather than a backdrop. Nature creates the conditions for thinking to settle, patterns to become visible, and perspective to return — which is why it’s central to how I work, not an add-on. As well as Executive Coaching online I offer immersive retreats and corporate away days bringing people out of the office and into nature.
My purpose-built coaching space on the edge of Ashdown Forest (Sussex) provides a powerful environment for deep reflection and transformation.
I believe environment shapes thinking and that leadership development doesn’t always belong in a meeting room. How can we expect new thinking in the same old setting?
Find out more about coaching in Nature
Neuro-Inclusive, trauma-aware, and proudly different
I’m neurodivergent and I’ve done a lot of work to understand how that’s shaped the way I lead, relate, and think. That insight helps me support others (neurodivergent or not) to find ways of working and leading that feel more natural, not performative.
I also bring a trauma-aware lens to my practice, without pathologising. I understand what it’s like for the “then and there” to affect the “here and now” and how past experiences can shape the way we lead, relate, and respond under pressure. This work is about creating space between trigger and reaction, so you can choose how you want to respond — not just repeat old patterns.
You can read more about my own diagnosis journey here.
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