I am consciously reclaiming ‘excellence’ as a marker of inclusion. I assert that we each have our unique version of excellence. My role is to get alongside my clients so as to describe what I experience when their moments of excellence arise. I am a master of describing the nature of my clients’ unique version of excellence.  

(with thanks to Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall ‘The Feedback Fallacy’, Harvard Business Review, March-April 2019). 

I embrace fun, humour and play. I enjoy my work and my clients enjoy working with me. We laugh. We smile

Consistency generates results. I have experienced the power of deliberate repetition to achieve results. Just as I have completed long runs by putting one foot in front of the other, so too in the rest of life.

My work with clients spills over into more areas of their lives and organisations. A light on a path lights up the whole path.

I am committed to means and ends being in alignment. I assert that the process by which we seek to achieve an outcome is as important as the outcome and will be reflected in the quality of the outcome.  I can measure this by the thud of resonance I feel in my chest when I am working in alignment.

I am committed to a life of nonviolence, which is “not simply a matter of abstinence from physical or verbal violence, it is an attitude of mind, an emotional orientation towards loving care and concern” (Adam Curle. Another way: Positive response to contemporary violence, 1995:17)