Writer. Wedding officiant. Training consultant.
I am a lot of things I never expected to be: a writer, a wedding officiant, a global communicator and coach. My work has taken me into boardrooms, prison cells, classrooms, helicopters and cruise ships. I’ve held a high-level security clearance while coaching cabinet ministers in the UK, and I’ve been unemployed and living in a storage unit. I’ve lived in countries where I didn’t speak the language and communicated through eyebrow twitches and shoulder shrugs. I’ve been the lowest-paid and the highest-paid person in the room. Money never mattered much, because I figured I’d never need it. As my mother said, shrouds have no pockets.
Afraid of heights but unwilling to let fear win, I’ve made more than six hundred parachute jumps. These days I’m what I unofficially call an extreme wedding officiant, marrying people in helicopters, speedboats and Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. Some of them come back. I never expected repeat business as a wedding officiant. I do.
My writing draws on an unusual combination: a career training people at organizations such as NASA and the BBC, forty years of living six months at a time, and many hours standing with couples at the moment they make their most sincere promises. It comes from a refusal to accept the generic, the meh, or quiet disappearance.
Published Writing
Full writing credits across print, stage, radio, and online. View published work →
Writing CV
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