Since I started my own business, I think I have made more connections and created business opportunities because I’m a beagle owner. Honestly! 

Maybe I should have called myself “Be More Beagle”!

Here’s why I think it resonates - if you know any thing about beagles….

🐾 Nose-to-the-ground focus / Tenacity

Beagles are scent hounds bred to lock onto a trail and not give up. 

In business, this means staying relentlessly focused on your goal and not getting distracted — even when the path gets hard.

🐾 Curiosity

Beagles are endlessly curious and exploratory. 

Great leaders and healthy cultures encourage asking questions, challenging assumptions, and exploring new ideas rather than defaulting to “we’ve always done it this way.”

🐾 Pack mentality / Team loyalty

Beagles are pack animals — they thrive in groups and are deeply loyal. 

This translates to building genuine team cohesion, having each other’s backs, and creating belonging rather than a purely transactional work culture.

🐾 Enthusiasm and energy

Beagles bring infectious enthusiasm to everything they do. 

Leaders who show genuine excitement about the work tend to inspire the same in their teams.

🐾 Friendliness / Approachability

Beagles are famously friendly and non-threatening. 

In leadership, this means being accessible, removing hierarchy barriers, and making it easy for people to speak up or bring problems forward.

🐾 Stubbornness (the good kind)

Beagles are notoriously independent-minded. 

In business this reflects the value of conviction — not just going along with the crowd, and being willing to hold a position when you believe in it.

🐾 Adaptability

Beagles were bred to work in all kinds of terrain and conditions. 

Good businesses and leaders adapt to changing markets, setbacks, and environments without losing their core identity.

The overall spirit of “be more beagle” in business would be: stay curious, stay loyal to your team, pursue your goals with energy and persistence, and don’t take yourself too seriously. 

It’s a refreshing antidote to overly corporate, rigid leadership culture.

Sometimes I go to networking events and of course people say - “What do you do?”

The answer is simple -

I help companies figure out why their people aren’t clicking and help fix it. Think of me as the person who makes your workplace actually work.

And on the flip side - I’m also a coach.

I help individuals 1:1 to navigate their career, their confidence and how they show up at work. I’m in your corner helping you figure out your next move. No judgment, no stress, in your pj’s if you want - because it’s about time and space.

What makes me different from all the other coaches out there?

That’s another simple answer -

No one else is me. No one else has my personality or experience. All coaches are individuals. That’s it.

Coaching is all about connection and trust. Therefore it’s important you choose someone who is on your page, in your zone, whatever you call it.

Resetting your company culture can be overwhelming, especially if you’re experiencing a dip in the numbers, the seeds of a toxic work environment, or time and money being wasted on the wrong things.

These work patterns can take on a life of their own, to the point that the ‘emergency stop’ button becomes harder and harder to find.

The last thing you’ll want to do when you’ve got a business to run, is slow down your team with corporate training.

But what if I told you this is the number one mistake Managing Directors make, when trying to save their company?

In the decade I spent as a Managing Director in the healthcare sector, I led multiple teams across sites up and down the country, weathered a pandemic, and came out the other side with a smiling workforce and pride in our achievements.

That’s because I followed one simple, yet radical principle: “Everybody should want to get up and go to work in the morning.”

Today I teach this, and much more, to struggling businesses across Yorkshire and the North of England, so that they can thrive. And it all starts with a clear, aligned company culture.

To bolster my two decades in operations leadership, I did my homework: I got qualifications and I studied female leadership styles in the workplace.

I was shocked to find out how often talented women talk themselves out of the room before anyone else had the chance to.

Or, after time away from work - like illness or having a baby - women are consistently less likely to put themselves forward in meetings or for promotions. If they could learn, like I had, to feel happy and confident at work, then so many doors would open up for them.

I realised that the best leaders I’d ever worked with weren't performing a version of leadership copied from someone else. They were just themselves.

And that’s what many of these women needed to do: to trust themselves, to rediscover their role in the workplace, & learn how to communicate with more confidence.

That’s why my mission is not just to transform your company culture, but to go the extra mile with the women in your team, with private, 1:1 coaching. Because everyone deserves to feel comfortable at work, in a job that works for them.