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The last few weeks were a stress test I did not design on purpose.I flew to Canada to settle my son into university. Wee...
03/09/2026

The last few weeks were a stress test I did not design on purpose.

I flew to Canada to settle my son into university. Weeks of forms and bedding and last hugs, in a different time zone, with a full heart and a half-open laptop. Add in ageing parents health challenges as the eldest daughter and, life was at maximum capacity. And the business held.

Clients coached. Community running. Revenue arriving. Not because I was grinding at 2am from Montreal, but because of decisions made long before this trip. The team. The systems. The offers that deliver without me hovering. The margin, in money and in time, that meant a full month of life did not become a crisis of business.

That is what I have come to think freedom in business actually means. Not working from anywhere. Having a business that works when you are somewhere else, because your attention is needed by the people you love.

Because a business only built for your ambition is fragile. It has to be able to hold your whole life. The milestones you refuse to miss. The seasons you cannot plan for. The weeks when work simply cannot come first, and should not.

This is a big part of the work I do with founders now. Not just "how do we grow this?" but the sharper question underneath it: what are we actually building, and what does it need to make possible?

Growth is a number. Capacity is a design decision.

If life got very full next month, would your business hold?

02/09/2026

The first couple of businesses I sold were never built with an exit in mind.

I built them because I loved the work, saw an opportunity and wanted to create something successful. Selling wasn’t part of the plan—not even vaguely.

But selling those businesses taught me that building, scaling and selling require very different things.

And that experience now shapes how I coach founders.

Before we talk about how to scale, we need to understand what we’re scaling, why we’re scaling it and what we ultimately want the business to make possible.

Because it’s entirely possible to scale the revenue, the client base and the workload while also making the business even more dependent on you.

Passion, hunger, energy, saying yes and figuring things out can build enormous momentum. But a buyer isn’t paying for your passion or how hard you work.

They’re paying for what will continue working without you:

Your brand. Your systems. Your methods and IP. Your team. Your reputation and reach. Your strategic partnerships. Your consistent revenue and your margins.

You don’t need to want to sell your business to build it this way.

You simply end up with a business that runs better, is worth more and gives you greater choice.

So, what are you actually scaling and what are you building it for?

If you’ve never thought about your business this way (or you’re ready to scale but want to be more intentional about what you’re building) this is exactly the work we do inside my LEAP program.

I currently have three places available in my 1:1 LEAP coaching experience for founders ready to build a more valuable, sustainable business that creates greater freedom and choice.

Send me a DM with the word LEAP and we can talk about whether it’s the right fit for you.

27/08/2026

I could write the first twenty minutes of most discovery calls before they happen.

"I know what I need to do, I just haven't done it."
"I've been sitting on this for a year."
"Everyone I ask tells me something different."
"I'll decide after one more quarter."

Founders say these like confessions.

Here is what I hear instead: a smart woman who has already done the thinking and is waiting for something no one can give her. Certainty.

Because asking one more person is not research, it is a delay with good manners. And "one more quarter" is rarely about the quarter. The information you are waiting for almost never arrives. The decision just gets more expensive.

Here is the shift I watch happen inside coaching: the moment a founder stops collecting opinions and makes the call, strategy gets simple. The calendar organises itself around the decision. The plan stops being rebuilt every Sunday night. Momentum shows up embarrassingly fast.

The thinking was never your problem. You have done plenty of it.

So, the question I would ask you on that first call: what have you already decided that you have not said out loud yet?

26/08/2026

I could show you my Claude automations. They are genuinely good. They have replaced a real-life executive assistant, and I am not being dramatic about that.

But the more interesting list is the one I refuse to touch.

I never automate my first message to a new client. I never automate my follow-ups after coaching sessions. And I never automate my messages inside the Leap Collective community. Those are written by me, on the day, because of the conversation we actually had.

The rule is simple. Automate your admin, your reminders, your follow-through. Never automate your relationships.

Because here is what the AI gold rush is missing: your clients can already talk to ChatGPT about whatever it is you do. The information was never the product. What they cannot get anywhere else is you. Your experience, your voice, your judgement, the relationship they have built with you. That is what people buy.

Which means the founders who automate everything are quietly deleting the only part of their business that cannot be copied.

So yes, build the systems. Free up the hours. And then spend those hours on the humans.

What is on your never-automate list?

25/08/2026

It drives me bonkers. Somewhere along the way, women in business learned to lead with purpose and freedom and whisper the third one.

Purpose, freedom, and wealth. Those are the three drivers I see in female founders again and again, and the order shifts as you move through the stages of business and life. Plenty of us start for purpose, or the freedom to raise a family differently. Good reasons. Real reasons.

But there comes a point where wealth deserves to move up the list. Especially as you get closer to the later chapters of your career. Because eventually the question lands: have I built a business, or have I just built myself a really good job?

Here is what I want for you instead. A business that is an asset. One that creates wealth beyond the income it pays you. One that has value without you sitting in the middle of everything. One you could sell, step away from, or keep running while it generates value in the background.

Wanting that does not make you less purpose-driven. It does not make you greedy. It makes you the founder who looked at all those years of building and asked the sharpest question in the room: what is actually left over for me after all of this?

Wealth is not a dirty word. It is a business decision to go for your financial goals.

24/08/2026

It’s Monday, the start of a new week. And this is your friendly reminder that movement and busyness won’t necessarily lead to momentum. It comes from intention, strategy & planning.
What’s your commitment to momentum this week? Share below 👇

19/08/2026

Most strategy days fail because the real conversations never happened.

Everyone nods.
The document gets approved.
An action plan gets created.
Maybe even roles & responsibilities get allocated
Then it lands in a shared drive… and everyone goes back to business as usual.

At Leap Lab, we start somewhere different: with the gaps.

Where are your actions out of step with your vision?
Where does the leadership team genuinely disagree?
What is everyone thinking but no one is saying?

We get the elephants into the room before we build the plan.
We have the experience to do it and that’s why we get results.

Because when people work through the hard stuff together, they don’t just agree with the strategy.

They own it.

Agreement nods in the meeting.
Alignment shows up in the action.

If your last strategy day produced a beautiful document but no real momentum, DM me “ALIGNMENT” and let’s chat.

Let’s make the next one count 😊

I have started six businesses. A toy company, a production company, recruitment and training, coaching, marketing and co...
18/08/2026

I have started six businesses. A toy company, a production company, recruitment and training, coaching, marketing and consulting, and now Leap Lab.

Different industries. Different timing. Different lessons.

I tried to turn that history into one clean lesson to share.

The truth is that there is no universal pattern across all of them.

Each one taught me something different and that the beauty of experience & hindsight.

Leap Lab isn’t the business where I finally discovered one universal answer.

It’s the business where I learned to diagnose the constraint that is actually there.

Sometimes it’s the founder. Sometimes it’s cash flow, partnership, strategic alignment, delivery capacity, the revenue model or market timing.

Good strategy starts with the right diagnosis.

If your business feels stuck, what is the real constraint?

Leap Lab is the first business I built knowing what emerging patterns look like (both mine and the industry’s). The frameworks carry the method, so it works without me standing next to it.

And the women I coach get to skip a couple of decades of expensive lessons.

If you lined up everything you have built, what pattern would be staring back at you?

On paper, a strategy offsite for a corporate team, a keynote, and 1:1 coaching with a business owner look like three dif...
12/08/2026

On paper, a strategy offsite for a corporate team, a keynote, and 1:1 coaching with a business owner look like three different jobs.

They are the same job. I just change shoes.

Every one of them exists because of the same gap: the distance between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Corporations write strategies that never leave the slide deck. Entrepreneurs collect advice & engage in lots of learning that they never act on. Audiences feel inspired for a day and change nothing. I have seen beautiful strategy documents die quiet deaths in shared drives, and honestly, most of them deserved better.

Closing that gap has been my job in every version of my working life. As a Director of Strategy and Innovation at Deloitte. As Head of Strategy of a global agency network and as a serial entrepreneur, across six businesses of my own, with multiple exits. And for fourteen years as a senior lecturer in higher education, teaching strategy to people who then had to walk out and make it work on a Monday.

So whether it is a strategy day with a leadership team, a keynote from my ‘Draw Outside the Lines’ collection, or a fabulous female founder inside my 1:1 LEAP coaching program or mastermind, the promise is the same.

We make the decisions live, in the room, and you leave with strategy you will actually execute.

If one of these is on your list this year, my inbox is open.

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