Women Who Lead

Kaya Cansfield is a life force. Our energies connected in the dark when I first attended her spin classes at Psycle London after she made the leap from corporate life a few years ago (she's also sinc…

Andrew Richardson has become one of my most trusted advisors in the past few years. He recently started his own business with a couple of partners, Eka, a venture capital business focused on backing …

Alex Hersham is a brilliant human, he also happens to be CEO and Founder of Zencargo. We connected a couple of years ago and bonded over people geekery. He’s incredibly self aware and has been meticu…

Melissa Coton is one of those magical humans whose energy dances, even when she is stationary. We met when we were both new yoga teachers, and she took the bold step a couple of years ago to leave he…

I was lucky enough to adopt Justine Borja to the Pen-fold around 3 years ago, when we met by chance at a yoga event in Stockholm, only to learn we were relative neighbours in Notting Hill. Her deep c…

Josh Connolly is someone who I only connected with recently, but I have already begun to work with him professionally by inviting him to come and work with the team at Launchpad. Having walked his ow…

Kimba Bush is a creator in every sense. Musician, film maker, designer and also, in arguably his most important role, father. His music and his lyrics resonate, but his spirit and his thoughtfulness …

Sope Agbelusi is an inspiring human being who I actually only connected with this year in the virtual space. I love the fact that he changed everything in his career to explore the path of coaching. …

Kylie Pearsall might actually win the prize for the most effervescent person ever. I love her thirst for life and the positive way she applies herself to whatever she has in her mind to do at the tim…

Julie Fedele is a fantastically formidable human that arrived in my world around three years ago. I have been watching her step into her fire, more and more each day. Her integrity, effort and consis…

Mandy Nyarko is a relatively new recruit to the Pen-Fold but my goodness she has made a big impression. I was immediately inspired by her courageousness in building the Startup Discovery School whils…

Welcome back to Pancakes and Peacocks, and thank you for joining me on this podcast journey.

This podcast started when I realised that I had unconsciously built a live with joy at the heart of it, and…

Hasan Khair is founder of Mavericks Unlimited, a brilliantly authentic business helping founders and startups to grow. Hasan inspires me in so many ways, but his open hearted Maverick spirit is unden…

Gabriela Hersham is one of the biggest hearted human beings that you can find. She applies that operating model to the two big jobs in her like, that of CEO of Huckletree and mother of two fabulous c…

Spending time with Jason Touray is a little like warming yourself by the fire. His wisdom, his honesty and his passion are just some of the many things that inspire me. Jason is the Founder of Black …

I read a great quote recently by a human called Glennon Doyle; “I will not stay, not ever again – in a room, or conversation, or relationship, or institution, that requires me to abandon myself.”

This…

June Angelides is one of the most quietly powerful people I know. She has this incredible aura of connectedness, so you fall in love with her instantly, but complements that with positive momentum of…

Raphan Kebe is a wonderful teacher of movement, with his own distinctive style called Space and Flow. We connected via movement but formed a friendship though honesty and humility. His honesty and cr…

Mira Magecha is an alternative People leader, who has been leading the charge at Just Eat for the past chunk of time, having started out in consulting. A fellow advocate of lifelong learning, her ene…

Anouk Agussol is an incredibly talented People leader who built a phenomenal People consulting firm called Unleashed. They operate across the tech space, and set the bar for doing People stuff in man…