About

I believe in people. All of it follows from that.

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I grew up in Bolton, a Northern mill town in the United Kingdom where people are tough because they have to be and ambitious because they believe. That foundation is in everything I do.

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At 23 I left for what was supposed to be a three-week holiday in Australia. Six months later I made the kind of decision that takes courage. I left my family, my friends, and everything I had known to that point to build a life on the other side of the world.

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Over the next decade, I returned to the UK, I studied, I built a career and I had children. I worked across three organisations and multiple disciplines, and I learned, over time, what it costs a person to spend their days in a workplace that is quietly damaging them. I was made redundant twice. The second time was what started my interest in workplaces that damage people, and the work I now do with organisations.

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I have been back in Australia since 2013. I rebuilt. I became clear on what I would and would not stand for. Integrity is non-negotiable for me. When I was asked to compromise on it, I could not. It cost me. I would do it again.

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Everything I have lived has taught me something, and everything I have lived has refused to diminish me. I am not starting over. I am starting from everything I know. That is what The Clayton Vesta Minerva Collective is built from; every chapter, every choice, every refusal to be made less than I am.

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Today I am building two things. Thriving Humans is the professional practice. It works with organisations becoming places people can do their best work, and with individuals navigating challenges in their workplace.

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Finding Your Thing is the community for women ready for what comes next. Both are built on the same belief. Both matter. And both exist because I built what I needed and could not find.