Work with me.

Most people don’t come to me because they need more information. They’ve already read the books. Listened to the podcasts. Spoken to mentors. Collected advice.

When people usually find me.

By the time someone gets in touch, something that used to make sense no longer does.

• A decision nobody else can make for them.
• A role they’ve grown into, or perhaps grown out of.
• A business that’s succeeding while they quietly wonder whether they still recognise themselves inside it.
• The end of a sporting career.
• A leadership position that has become increasingly lonely.
• A life that looks successful from the outside but deserves a closer look from the inside.

Most of the people I work with aren’t asking, “Can you solve this for me?” but something much quieter, like:

“Am I seeing this clearly?”

This probably isn’t for you if…

…you’re looking for quick answers. Or a motivational coach. Or someone to tell you what your next move should be. I’m not interested in giving people another framework to follow or another identity to perform. There are plenty of people who do that well.

It might be for you if…

You’ve become very good at what you do, but you’re no longer sure you’re seeing clearly.

You’ve done everything you were supposed to do, and you’re not convinced it’s adding up to the life you hoped it would.

You’re carrying responsibility that can’t really be delegated.

Everyone around you has an opinion, an incentive, or something they’d like you to choose.

You’ve realised that the version of you that got here may not be the version you need next.

Or perhaps nothing is obviously wrong.

You just have the feeling that it’s time to think more deeply about the life you’re living than the pace of everyday life normally allows.

Why philosophy?

You don’t need philosophy in the academic sense.

Philosophy is useful because it’s spent more than two thousand years wrestling with the kinds of questions that never really go away.

• How should I live?
• What matters?
• What is enough?
• Who am I becoming?
• What happens when success and meaning stop pointing in the same direction?

The thinkers I draw on aren’t there to impress you but because they often illuminate situations that modern self-help, leadership books, and business frameworks barely touch.

What our “sessions” look like.

Part conversation. Part philosophy. Part old-fashioned tutoring.

I bring ideas, questions, perspectives, and thinkers you probably wouldn’t encounter on your own. Together we use them to look again at whatever you’ve brought into the room.

Sometimes we’ll spend ninety minutes circling a single question. Sometimes an idea from Heraclitus, Heidegger, or Simone Weil suddenly makes something obvious that weeks of conventional discussion never reached.

There isn’t a script. No worksheets. Nothing to apply on Monday morning. Hopefully something more interesting happens, because you start seeing Monday differently.

Who I tend to work with.

• Senior leaders.
• Founders.
• Elite athletes approaching or navigating retirement.
• Academics and creatives.
• People building organisations.
• People leaving organisations.
• People whose lives look impressive from the outside but who have reached questions success alone can’t answer.

The common thread is responsibility rather than profession.

Practicalities.

I keep a deliberately small diary.

Most people work with me for between five and eight sessions, meeting roughly every two or three weeks, although some relationships continue for much longer.

Sessions are typically ninety minutes.

There isn’t a standard fee. Every engagement is different, and so are the people I work with. If we decide to continue after an initial conversation, we’ll agree a fee together before any commitment is made.

Between conversations I’ll often recommend essays, books, videos, or particular thinkers that seem especially relevant to where your thinking is heading.