Over several decades in consulting I have worked on sales development and strategy for clients including PepsiCo, Masterfoods (Mars), Greencore, Tesco, The Body Shop, Debenhams, Top Shop, Guest and Healthspan. Additionally I have worked for the World Bank on the development of farmer ownership models and am currently active in the regenerative food and farming sphere within the NGO world.

I was an early, and leading, advocate for the importance of nutrient density in our diets through my consultancy, Nutrition Directions. With the benefit of a Masters degree, as well as post-graduate research in the field, I combined scientific developments with my extensive international experience in consumer goods marketing to support leading corporates in outlining long-term strategies for nutrition. Disappointingly, it didn’t take long for developments in the field to increasingly focus on health ‘claims’, and the bottom line, rather than genuine consumer health and wellbeing.

Fast forward a few years, including a career break to raise a family, and I find little has progressed. Now, more urgently than ever, we need systemic change - not just in our approach to food and farming, but to so many other sectors in our complex world.

As well as undertaking extensive training in systemic constellation facilitation, I have a keen interest in the psychology underpinning our current climate inaction and disconnect, backed up by an Oxford undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Psychology.

My love of fiction and poetry writing centres around constructing new narratives, and this creative thinking extends into a working environment through challenging accepted dogma as a means to achieve the changes so urgently required by the current world situation. Other interests include:

| plant medicine | diet & mental health | trauma | indigenous cultures |

Mine is always a glass half full. Some simple pleasures that make me happy:

• Dark chocolate

• The scent of honeysuckle

• Cryptic crosswords (but not cryptic, cross words)