Joy-Led® leadership for women done with patriarchal, extractive ways of working

Our resistance is divine data. It’s our highest, wisest, minxiest, sovereign self – our inner Goddess, Queen, Sage and Diva all rolled into one. She knows there’s another way to lead, and she’d be right.

She also knows now is the time. Our imperfect, courageous, impossible-to-put-in-a-box creations, businesses, communities and ways of leading are needed.

Hi, I'm Claire. I partner with leaders, founders and changemakers ready to unleash their creative power and bring forward the change only they can make.

This work is for you if you know – deep in your heart, deep in your body (even if it terrifies you slightly) – that you’re ready for more.

Not ‘more’ as in the monolithic march of more for more’s sake. Oh no!

More depth. More vibrancy. More unapologetic, joy-fuelled, imperfect, right-sized motion toward what makes you feel utterly alive.

 What this work can look like…

• A founder deleting the 37-tab marketing funnel she'd spent six months building and trusting her urge to have joyfully audacious conversations instead – and discovering they connect her with exactly the people she's here to serve.

• An executive who can pop out 30-page proposals and facilitate board meetings in her sleep, but who hasn't danced, sung or written anything just for herself in more than two decades – and begins rebuilding a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks from the outside.

• A leadership coach with a Canva folder full of abandoned ideas finally creating and leading the programme she's been circling for years – the one a well-meaning marketing expert advised her not to pursue because ‘it wasn't niche enough.’

• A woman stops apologising for bringing poetry, dancing and conversations with trees into her client work. She realises she was never ‘just’ a coach, consultant or facilitator. She's here to lead a movement. And she's just getting started.

I'm a transformational coach, mentor, facilitator, community leader, creative catalyst and emerging artist on a journey of creative reclamation.

I'm also a mum, an ex-wife, a current wife, a Latin-loving dancer, a cliché-ridden poet, a conscious burlesque artist, a daughter, a big sister, a friend and an evolving, eternal seeker who has stopped contorting herself to fit inside other people's boxes, and delights in helping others do the same.

P.S. If we've met recently and you're wondering who the blonde, suspiciously youthful woman in the photos is... it's me. Seven years ago. Yep. I’m due a new photo-shoot.

The creases around my eyes are deeper, my hair is my own colour, complete with silver streaks. This website could do with an upgrade, but I've felt an irrepressible urge to share what's here in gloriously good-enough-for-now form, so we can find one another if we're meant to.

Begone the myth that we must wait until everything is ready before we show our faces.

My deepest wish for us all…

We stop outsourcing our knowing to experts who have never lived our lives.

We allow ourselves to stumble towards what’s calling us now, led by joy, creativity, intuition and eros as essential leadership capacities.

We create businesses, teams, careers and lives that are regenerative, expansive and right-sized for us – no matter what the prevailing messages tell us we should be doing.

We unapologetically follow our highest, wisest, minxiest, sovereign self as the CEO of our careers, businesses and lives. (She’s also known, of course, as our soul.)

We join hands with our sisters in this great adventure and bring forward the creations, communities, businesses and movements that only we can build.

One-to-One Partnership

A deeply personalised partnership for leaders, founders and changemakers ready to bring forward the work only they can do.

Communities & Collectives

Intimate, experiential spaces where women gather to reclaim their voices, creative power and aliveness – and discover what becomes possible when we stop creating alone.

Workshops & Immersions

Creative containers that transform ideas into form, expand leadership capacity and catalyse the next chapter of your work through joyful, embodied experimentation.

Organisational Partnerships

Bespoke coaching, facilitation and leadership development for organisations cultivating more human, creative and regenerative ways of leading and working.