A speaker who has lived it, studied it, and built a movement around it.

I bring something most speakers on this topic cannot: both sides of the story.

I am a survivor of sexual trauma and a trauma recovery coach. I am also a former leader within NatWest, KPMG, Microsoft, Vodafone, and O2 — nearly three decades spent inside the institutions now trying to get this right.

I understand the embodied reality of recovery — what it actually feels like in the body, long after the event itself. And I understand the structural barriers that make recovery harder than it needs to be.

My speaking style mirrors the ReConnected Life brand: calm, direct, intelligent, and never sensational.

Topics I speak on:

The gap between disclosure and therapy — and what organisations can do about it. Most people wait months, sometimes years, between telling someone and getting support. That gap is where organisations can do the most good, or the most harm.

Nervous system literacy for frontline professionals. What's happening in the body during and after trauma, and why understanding it changes how you respond to the people in front of you.

What survivors actually need, and why current systems often fail to provide it. The distance between policy intention and lived experience — and what closing it really requires.

Healing without justice — why recovery and the legal process are separate journeys. Waiting for an outcome that may never come is not a recovery plan.

Autistic and queer experience of trauma and recovery. How trauma responses, and the path back from them, can look different — and why one-size-fits-all approaches leave people behind.

The mistake in expecting recovery to have an end-point. From trauma, or burnout, or both — and how to embrace life anyway.

Leadership, lived experience, and why the personal is both political, and professional.