About Lee
I started working at 13, in my local ice cream shop. I've never really stopped.
I've spent more than two decades working with senior leaders — people who are exceptional at what they do, and who know that something still stands between them and the leader they're capable of being. That's the conversation I'm interested in.
Story
I'm not someone who learned leadership from a textbook.
Before I set up my practice in 2003, I was General Manager of a Borders Books and Music store — a 24,000 square foot retail operation, full P&L responsibility, everything in between. I led a turnaround of a struggling store in Brighton, and what actually turned it around wasn't process, wasn't strategy. It was understanding what was getting in people's way. That's still what I do.
I'm not someone who learned leadership from a textbook. I've been in the complexity, the pace, the difficult conversations — the moments when theory and practice feel like completely different languages. I know what it actually feels like to lead.
Approach
I work at the intersection of depth psychology and relational awareness.
I work at the intersection of depth psychology and relational awareness. Not tips, not frameworks, not a neat package of answers — but the kind of work that gets beneath the surface and stays there.
I'm a Master Certified Coach with 22 years of practice. I'm also a qualified counsellor completing my psychotherapy training, which means I can work with the whole person — not just the professional challenge sitting on top. I work with people for six months or a year, because that's how long it takes to do something real.
I'm Scottish, which means I'm direct. I will show you what's in the mirror. That's not for everyone — but for the people it's for, it changes everything.
Credentials
I've worked with hundreds of senior leaders across every sector.
I've worked with hundreds of senior leaders across banking, finance, consulting, pharmaceuticals, the built environment, the arts, and the charity sector. I've coached a university Vice-Chancellor, served as the Obama Foundation's only European coach, and worked with CEOs delivering food aid in Africa.
I'm a Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College Cambridge, and a mentor coach at Henley Business School. My qualifications span philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy, and coaching — four degrees, including an MSc from LSE and an MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology — and an ICF Master Certified Coach credential, the highest level the profession awards.
Personal
Even as a child I was fascinated by the big questions.
Even as a child I was fascinated by the big questions. What life is. How we make meaning from it. What it looks like to be fully human. That curiosity has never left me.
It's taken me into academic philosophy and psychology, into retreats and seminars, into deep psychospiritual practice of many kinds. I am, at heart, a seeker — genuinely committed to freeing myself from the limitations that upbringing and culture quietly install in all of us. I bring that to my clients, because I don't think you can take someone further than you've been willing to go yourself.
I also believe the individual sits inside a larger system. That belief led me to found Elect Her, a UK-wide social enterprise that supported over 300 women into elected political life across a decade. I stood for the Scottish Parliament in 2016.
The inner work is never finished. There is always more to discover, more ways to come alive — alongside, not instead of, finding peace with the world as it is.
My happiest place is in the park with my dog, watching life happen all around me.