“After more than 30-years communicating for a living, on comedy stages and high-pressure boardrooms, I wanted to turn what I'd learned into something other people could use when their moment comes.”
Here is where I carefully try not to toot my own horn whilst still giving you the confidence I know what I’m talking about.
For 30 years, I have communicated for a living. On comedy stages, in packed festival venues, across meeting-room tables and inside the boardrooms of multimillion-pound organisations.
My touring stand-up show, ‘Around The World in 80 Dates’, sold-out at the Edinburgh, Adelaide and Perth Fringe festivals, as well as the New Zealand Comedy Festival and venues across Scotland, England, China, Vietnam and beyond.
I also created and performed a chaotic family comedy show called Balloonatics, which delighted thousands of children and parents around the world.
Alongside my entertainment career, I worked across business development, recruitment, digital transformation and consultancy. I helped shape and deliver pitches and presentations for senior decision-makers in multimillion-pound organisations, both in person and online.
Those two careers taught me communication from very different angles. Entertainment taught me how to read a room, hold attention, recover when things go wrong and keep going under pressure. Business taught me how to organise an idea, understand an audience and communicate when the outcome matters. CHC brings those lessons together.
Why I started coachingPeople become more connected when they have the confidence and skills to express themselves clearly.
I have spent most of my life talking to people for a living, and if I compared the mistakes I have made in front of audiences to the number of stars in the sky, it would be even. After years of working across entertainment, public speaking and business, I began looking more closely at what helps people communicate well, and what holds them back.
That work became the four foundations at the heart of my course: Control — managing your nervous response; Find — developing self-awareness and finding your point; Trust — preparing with purpose; and Enjoy — adapting your delivery when the moment changes.
My coaching combines my experience in entertainment and business communication with applied psychology and real-world coaching. The aim is simple: to help people Find their voice, Trust it under pressure, and Enjoy using it.
My coaching is for people who want the way they communicate to match what they're capable of. Whether nerves get in the way, your thoughts don't come out as clearly as you'd like, or you simply want to become a more effective communicator, the aim is the same: build practical skills you can rely on when they matter.
“Confidence is a byproduct of realising mistakes are survivable”
Perfection isn't the goal. I'll help you make fewer mistakes, recover from them faster, and keep moving forward.