About
About Becky
Former City lawyer, turned coach, speaker and workplace consultant, with a unique perspective on modern careers and the real-life pressures that come with them.
My story
I trained and practised as a lawyer at DLA Piper, having studied at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Law School. I qualified as a solicitor at 24, and was drawn in particular to IP work: I loved being an advocate for clients’ ideas and creations. I know first-hand what it takes to build a career in a demanding profession, and what it costs when the support around you doesn’t keep up with real life.
After law I moved into legal recruitment as a headhunter, then trained as a coach. Today I combine all three: the practitioner’s understanding of the profession, the headhunter’s view of the market, and the coach’s craft of helping people think clearly and act with confidence.
Two threads run through all of it. One is advocacy: for clients, candidates, coachees, and now my own son. The other is brand, sharpened by years of IP work, which I bring to help clients build a personal brand people remember them for.
Much of my work now focuses on parent carers: professionals balancing their career with a child’s additional needs. This isn’t just professional interest: as the parent of a son with ASD and ADHD, I spent eight years, from age three to eleven, advocating to secure his diagnosis, his EHCP, and ultimately a specialist SEN school place that was right for him. I know first-hand what it takes to advocate for your child while holding down a demanding career, and I bring that lived understanding, alongside my coaching training, into every session and every piece of work I do with organisations.
Credentials
- ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
- EMCC Global accredited
- DISC practitioner
- Former solicitor, DLA Piper
- University of Warwick & Nottingham Law School
- School Governor
How I work
Direct, warm and practical. I’ll challenge your thinking, hold you to what you say matters, and keep the focus on action, whether I’m coaching one person or standing in front of a room of five hundred.
The threadrunning through it all.
Every part of my career has been about standing up for someone else.
I qualified as a solicitor at 24 and threw myself into IP work, advocating for clients’ ideas and creations. As a headhunter, I advocated for candidates navigating career moves. As a coach, I help people find and use their own voice. And for eight years, from when he was three until he was eleven, I advocated for my son, through his diagnosis, his EHCP, and ultimately finding a specialist SEN school place that was right for him. Today, that experience shapes a different kind of advocacy: as a qualified coach, I understand both what carers are living through and the position organisations are in, and I help bridge the two, raising awareness and equipping leaders to support the growing number of carers in their workforce. Advocacy isn’t just something I do; it’s the thread that runs through everything I do.
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