When the decision everyone keeps discussing still isn't made, the problem everyone can see still isn't being said, or two people at the top can barely share a room — I find what's actually going on, say it plainly, and work with you until it's resolved.
Book a conversationThree months of meetings on the same decision. Nobody owns it, nothing gets decided, and it's already on next month's agenda.
The data has told you the answer for a while. Everyone's seen it. Nobody acts on it.
The wrong person is in a key role. You know it — but nothing's dealt with, so you're the one carrying it.
You aren't lost with what needs to be done. What's missing is someone who will say it plainly — and support while you act on it. That's where I come in.
Book a conversationLottoland — scaling, M&A, and IPO prep across Europe, LATAM and Australia.
Country Head of HR, global banking.
Working internationally with leaders across Europe and beyond.
Solutions Focused Coach · Certified Mediator · Certified D&I Specialist.
My title said Chief People Officer; the job was hearing what leaders couldn't say in the room — the stuck decision, the person who no longer fit, the conversation everyone was avoiding — and helping them deal with it. Through scale-ups, acquisitions, IPO preparation and global banking, the problems changed shape but never changed nature: it's always people, and it's always the thing nobody will say.
I've also built a business of my own — I co-founded The HR Dept — so I know the weight of decisions when it's your name on the line, not just your title.
What I offer now is what kept me in those rooms. I read what's actually going on and say it in a way people can hear and act on. No ego, no theatre, no framework for its own sake. I tell you what I see, and I stay with you while you deal with it.
By the time leaders call me, the analysis has been done, everyone in the room already knows the direction is unclear, the decision has stalled, or the person needs to go. What's missing is the moment of saying it out loud to the person who needs to hear it.
Three things live in that gap: relationship protection (if I say this, something between us changes), identity threat (if I name this problem, I'm implicated in it), and consequence fear (I can see the move, but not everything that might go wrong). Courageous leadership isn't the absence of those three things. It's moving through them.
My job is to make the cost of inaction visible, sit with you in that gap, and not let it get comfortable — until the conversation is had, the decision is made, and it holds.
One-to-one advisory for a single leader — a weekly session with a thinking partner, over three months.
You're carrying decisions you can't take to your board, your team or your peers. You've looked at them from every angle and they're still not made — and every week they stay open costs you momentum, credibility and sleep.
Weekly 60-minute calls over three months, with direct access between sessions. We work on the decisions you've been circling, the competing priorities keeping you stuck, and the dynamics in your team you can see but haven't named.
Facilitated advisory for your whole leadership team — individual conversations first, then working sessions together.
Your team is capable, but decisions get revisited in the next meeting, ownership falls through the gaps, and the honest conversation happens in the corridor instead of the room. Progress is slower than the talent around the table says it should be.
Individual 1:1s with each team member at the outset, then two team sessions a month with direct access throughout. I bring what people say privately and what's said in the room into one honest picture — and we work it through together.
Formal mediation between two senior people — a structured, confidential process with a certified mediator.
A relationship at the top has broken down — co-founders, executives, or the board. It's shaping the direction of the whole organisation, and if nothing changes, legal action becomes a real risk.
A structured mediation process — single or multi-session, in person or by video, strictly confidential. As a certified mediator, I work with each party to get beneath what they're demanding to what they actually need. They're almost never the same thing.
The work is confidential, so the people behind these words stay unnamed. What matters is what shifted.
"She understands people and systems in a way that's rare — and uses that insight to help leaders see what they've been missing, and act on it."
"Honest and transparent, without ego. She creates an environment where you feel heard — while still making the bold decisions that need to be made."
"She listens and observes in a way that's deeply in tune with people, applies that insight to structures and roles — and things that had been stuck start to move."
A short guide for C-suite leaders on how to recognise when a decision is truly stuck — and what it's costing the business every week it remains unresolved.
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