Work with me

Collaboration is at the heart of what I do.

One of my favourite parts of my work is collaborating with others to co-create something purposeful and energising. Whether you’re shaping a training day, planning a summer school, or developing a new initiative, working together to build a vision around your specific needs taps into both my creativity and your insight.

There are three main ways people bring me into their work:

• Tailored Workshops and Webinars for Professional Development
  I design and lead bespoke sessions for educators and teams – ideal for INSET days, CPD events, and reflective team training. You’ll find some sample topics below, but every workshop is crafted in response to your unique context and goals.
• Group Coaching for Creative Programmes
  I offer group coaching in settings like summer music schools or residencies, supporting participants through performance coaching, team-building, and reflective practice. These sessions help individuals grow while building trust and cohesion in the group.
• Coach in Residence
  As a Coach in Residence, I work alongside your team, programme, staff, or students, either embedded in a summer school or visiting regularly during a set period. This offers the people you’re working and creating with consistent access to values-led coaching. It’s a powerful way to embody what your organisation stands for – supporting growth, equity, and wellbeing in a human-centred, sustainable way. Coaching creates space for reflection, alignment, and empowered action – helping individuals and teams flourish while staying grounded in your shared purpose. As coach in residence I offer both team, group and 1:1 coaching and development.

If you’re curious about how we might work together, I’d love to hear from you to start creating your session

Core Threads in My Work

• Professional Identity – how it can work for you
• Learning Environments and knowledge emotions
• Theory AND PRACTICE of Motivation
• Reflective Practice for growth
• Piano Practice for all ages and stages
• Piano Technique Clinic
• Metacognitive Modelling
• Understanding the piano action to improve technique and musicianship
• Playing Piano Duets and Trios
• GenAI and what it offers teachers
• Neuromyths in Education
• Values-Led Teaching
• Creative Student Feedback
• Dialogic Learning – let them do the thinking!
• Learning Alignments
• A Coaching Approach in Teaching
• Performance Coaching
• Doing your own action research

Here are just a few examples of how these ideas can come to life in workshops and presentations. Each one is always shaped to fit your context and your people—no off-the-shelf sessions here.

• Sound Technique: Demystifying the piano action for better tone and artistry
• From Passion to Profession: Lifting the Lid on Piano Teacher Identity
• The Power of Two: Growing Musicianship Through Duet Playing
• Let Them Do the Thinking: Inviting student voice through dialogic learning in music and beyond
• GenAI in Education: Friend, Foe, or Facilitator?
• What’s Driving You?: Values-led approaches to decision-making in teaching
• The Emotionally Tuned Teacher: How belonging and positive regard transform learning environments in the performing arts
• Teach Smart: Integrating GenAI Without Losing Ourselves

‘The best transformational space is always preparing the ground for its own transformation’ attributed Jack Mezirow

Organisations I’ve Worked With

• ABRSM (repertoire consultant, augmented reality testing with student)
• BAST (Professional development podcast – Learning Environments for Children)
• Casio Grand Hybrid Teachers
• Curious Piano Teachers (Curiosity box on the piano)
• EPTA (Article – Professional Identity and Piano Teachers)
• ESTA (Summer School and Piano Teachers PGCert Course running sessions on piano technique, pedagogy and getting to know the piano)
• Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Workshop facilitator, professional identity)
• Italia Conti (Staff inset day professional development running a session on Student feedback literacy)
• Steinway and Sons
• University of Chichester (PGCert and MA tutor)
• Writing, Pianodao, Tim Topham (Top Music), Skoove Piano App

I loved reflecting back on the past and seeing how much we have grown as individuals; I have more faith in myself and striving for the things I want – not what people want me to do. I see how important a sense of community and belonging somewhere is

Professional Becoming

The session was very eye-opening. I really enjoyed learning / thinking about what I need around me to ‘succeed’ and what ‘success’ really is to me. I really enjoyed learning about your story and found it really inspiring. Also the star was really useful. Thank you!

Professional Becoming

I think you have a really lovely warm energy – thank you for sharing your wisdom with us!

Professional Becoming

This session has really solidified the aspects of how to be professional in any space while also being kind, supportive and respectful.

Professional Becoming

It’s really exciting to hear you talk about the research, and there feels like there’s so much potential to develop it going forward.

Guildhall Research Seminar

Thank you so much for being with us yesterday and for sharing these resources so promptly. It was wonderful to have you with us and very nice to meet you. We received so many great comments about the day.

Italia Conti

And thank you again SOOOO much for contributing to our latest Curiosity Box – it’s a truly fab set of resources, both videos and PDF content too!

Curious Piano Teachers

Found it relieving to hear all these aspects and case studies. Felt less ’alone’ / lost with what to do.

Professional Identity Specific

Good to be asked to think about my PI strengths and weaknesses. Hopefully being honest with myself can make me a better musician and a happier person.

Professional Identity Specific

Really nice to take time to think about things the a wider scale. I am used to just hopping from one thing to the next, good to take a step back.

Professional Identity Specific

Inspiring lecture thank you! Clearer understanding of PI and general identity.

Professional Identity Specific

Realised my strengths and weaknesses as musician outside of my playing.

Professional Identity Specific

Thought provoking into how our studies / what we’ve learned at guildhall has built into our identities.

Professional Identity Specific

I find it helpful to see that all these questions / thoughts are not only of my own but something that occurs often – also that there’s a lot beyond playing an instrument and that the human part of our work has a strong impact.

Professional Identity Specific

It is very helpful to have a language for thinking and talking about PI.

Professional Identity Specific

Workshopping with colleagues was very helpful and engaging.

I also really appreciated the feedback session very much it has opened new perspectives I did not think about.

Thank you so much. It is absolutely one of the best and most thoughtful things.

It was really brilliant! Great structure, lovely pacing, fab to have all the space for unpacking the examples. You were a wonderful facilitator, listening superbly and really enabling them to progress their thinking.

You’re an amazing teacher and I very much appreciated you’re considered and empowering feedback!

You are an innovator ultra! These are such good ideas, and obviously scalable.