About Mia
I help founders and leaders become the kind of leader people want to work, grow, and change with.
Founder and leadership advisory for people leading growth, performance, and change.
Most of the founders and leaders I work with are not struggling because they are not good enough.
They are struggling because what leadership is asking of them has changed — and no one has helped them understand what that change actually requires.
That is the work I do.
The work
Leadership is not only about what you do. It is about what your leadership creates around you.
When people aren't taking ownership, when decisions keep flowing back to you, when performance depends too much on your personal involvement, when change meets resistance rather than movement — these are rarely problems of strategy or effort. They are leadership problems.
Not because you've failed — but because leadership is developmental. As responsibility grows, the leadership has to grow alongside it.
My work helps founders and leaders see how they're showing up — where they may be over-functioning or creating dependency without meaning to — and understand what kind of leadership the people around them actually need in order to think, own, perform, and grow. It isn't about learning new techniques; it's about developing a deeper, more honest understanding of what you're creating around you, and who you're becoming as the responsibility grows.
How I work
Psychologically informed. Strategically grounded. Built around the real moments where leadership becomes hard.
My approach sits between founder and leadership advisory, strategic sparring, and the psychology of growth. It draws on systems thinking, psychodynamics, and years of working closely with founders and leaders across different industries and stages of growth.
I am not interested in surface-level fixes. I am interested in what sits underneath — the patterns, the dynamics, the relationship with responsibility and control, the way pressure shapes decision-making, and the deeper leadership identity that is either developing or holding things still.
The work is not therapy, not generic coaching, not a leadership framework presented as a checklist. It's a space to think more clearly about what's actually happening — and to develop the self-awareness, maturity, and capacity that great leadership genuinely requires.
Because at a certain point, leadership is less about doing more and more about becoming the kind of person others can think, perform, grow, and change with.
What I believe
Leadership isn't fixed. It's developmental — what it asks of a person changes as their responsibility grows.
People do not grow through pressure alone. They grow when the leadership around them creates the conditions for growth.
A leader can create dependency without meaning to. And a leader can create ownership without disappearing. The difference is in how they lead, not how hard they work.
The most significant development available to any leader is not a better strategy or a better system. It is a deeper and more honest understanding of themselves — what they carry, what they avoid, and what they create around them.
The best leaders do not make people smaller, more reliant, or more afraid. They make people clearer, more capable, and more willing to grow.
Where the work comes from
My perspective comes from years of advisory work with founders and leaders across industries and stages of growth. From building and leading businesses myself. From degrees and education within leadership, organisational development, and transformation. And from a long-held passion for understanding what happens at the intersection of leadership, growth, and the human beings doing both.
That is the kind of leadership I work with — and the kind I believe is worth developing.
The leaders who create the most around them are not the ones who work hardest or know the most. They are the ones who have developed the capacity to lead consciously.
Work with me
Executive Coaching
For founders & leaders transitioning into leadership
For founders & leaders stepping into a bigger leadership role — building the identity, confidence, and capability the next stage of growth requires.
Leadership Development
For leaders, managers & teams
Practical, psychologically grounded development for the leaders and managers responsible for how a team thinks, performs, and grows.
Female Leadership
Programs created specifically for women
A body of work built specifically for female leaders and founders — addressing the dynamics women navigate in leadership, and building the confidence to lead fully on their own terms.