I created Aniluma from a simple observation – the people carrying the greatest responsibility often have the fewest places to put it down. I know something of that territory myself.
I am an active CEO, qualified lawyer and psychotherapist, with experience spanning executive leadership, organisational strategy, law, mediation, psychology and complex human situations. My work has taken me into boardrooms, organisations and difficult situations where the stakes are high, decisions are complex and there is rarely much room to step back and think.
What happens in our professional lives is inevitably connected to the rest of our lives – our relationships, families, choices, circumstances, ambitions and the things we may not feel able to discuss anywhere else.
That is the space Aniluma was created for.
Aniluma is not about coaching, improving your performance or telling you what to do. It is a private space in which you can think and speak freely, think aloud and consider what is actually happening – without an organisational agenda and without needing to perform.
Sometimes that means exploring a difficult decision. Sometimes it means making sense of a relationship, a transition or a period of profound change – for you or your organisation.
Sometimes it is simply having somewhere to put down what you have been carrying.
My role is not to stand outside your life and advise you on it. It is to be alongside you while you make sense of it.
My professional background brings together disciplines that are rarely found in one place.
Executive leadership gives me an understanding of responsibility from the inside – including the realities of leading people, managing finances and risk, navigating governance and making decisions when there is no perfect answer.
Law brings an understanding of complexity, consequence, confidentiality, judgement and the environments in which difficult decisions are made.
Psychotherapy brings a deeper understanding of people – how we think, relate, respond to pressure and make sense of experiences that may be difficult to articulate.
Strategic advisory brings these perspectives together.
The result is neither conventional consultancy nor conventional coaching or therapy. It is a more private, reflective relationship for people who want a private, independent and considered space to think.
My career has moved across professional boundaries rather than staying within a single discipline.
I hold an LL.B (Hons), Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice and LL.M (Distinction), alongside postgraduate training in psychology, psychotherapy and specialist training in hypnotherapy.
I currently serve as a Chief Executive, giving me direct and continuing experience of the pressures, responsibilities and complexities that accompany senior leadership.
I bring that lived professional perspective into my work with Aniluma.
