From Planning Assistant to the boardroom, and what it cost.

I remember sitting in a senior leadership meeting, competent and composed on the outside, and privately afraid of being exposed as someone who didn't belong there.

By then I had spent more than two decades at a FTSE 100 company, in male-dominated industries. I started as a Planning Assistant and worked my way up through planning, engineering and project management to Executive Programme Delivery Director, delivering programmes across 27 countries.

I was usually outnumbered, and I had learnt the rules without ever being taught them: adapt to belong, keep proving your worth, be flawless, be strong, wait to be chosen. Those rules helped me succeed. They also cost me more than I realised.

When a restructure ended the career I had spent those decades building, I shut down, mentally and physically, in the middle of Schiphol Airport. At first I thought it was about losing the job. In recovery, I began to see the patterns I had been living by for years, and then I saw them in the women around me.

That is why I built Metamorforsuccess. Since 2020 I have trained, mentored and coached hundreds of women, and worked with organisations to keep and progress the women they are counting on to lead.

The thinking behind the work.

The Invisible Rules of Leadership

How high-achieving women can rise, lead and be recognised without self-erasure.

From Planning Assistant to the boardroom, and what it cost.

I remember sitting in a senior leadership meeting, competent and composed on the outside, and privately afraid of being exposed as someone who didn't belong there.

By then I had spent more than two decades at a FTSE 100 company, in male-dominated industries. I started as a Planning Assistant and worked my way up through planning, engineering and project management to Executive Programme Delivery Director, delivering programmes across 27 countries.

I was usually outnumbered, and I had learnt the rules without ever being taught them: adapt to belong, keep proving your worth, be flawless, be strong, wait to be chosen. Those rules helped me succeed. They also cost me more than I realised.

When a restructure ended the career I had spent those decades building, I shut down, mentally and physically, in the middle of Schiphol Airport. At first I thought it was about losing the job. In recovery, I began to see the patterns I had been living by for years, and then I saw them in the women around me.

That is why I built Metamorforsuccess. Since 2020 I have trained, mentored and coached hundreds of women, and worked with organisations to keep and progress the women they are counting on to lead.

The thinking behind the work.

The Invisible Rules of Leadership

How high-achieving women can rise, lead and be recognised without self-erasure.