I went feral in my sixties.

The back story

Five careers. Built and lost businesses. Trashed and regained my health. Married, divorced, been heartbroken and raged at life. Now, in my seventies, I’m happy, healthy, working at my highest level and loving everything life throws at me.

I don’t do therapy-speak, toxic positivity or victimhood. I’ve spent thirty years studying how the mind works, alongside a working life spent running real things with real money on the line. The two were never separate. They’re the whole point.

Qualified in Glasgow, the only woman in the year. Learned early what it costs to be the exception, and what it’s worth.

1973

Civil engineer

Taught Maths and Physics when the kids were small. A new skill and a future-proof for the uncertainty of life

Then

Head of Physics

Retrained into financial services, scared myself shitless with how awful the industry was, so set up and built a wealth management firm to £500m under advice over two decades. spent a couple of years running a global headhunting group through the 2008 crash. Interesting times. i

21 yrs

Founder & CEO

A portfolio across fintech, healthcare and asset management. Counsel to chief executives and boards. Good in bad situations: turnarounds, business crises, CEO meltdown.

Now

Board adviser & NED

A life long writer, from The Kama Sutra of Work to, now, FERAL - teaching women what they made sure you never knew is my legacy.

Now

Author and Speaker

Given up for adoption as a toddler. A history of loss, mistakes, getting back up again and sheer bloody luck. My own story isn’t separate from the work. It’s the raw material. There is nothing here that I didn’t learn from scratch the hard way. My mission is to save you time and pain.