About Me
I work with women navigating the cognitive and emotional impacts of perimenopause and menopause, and with organisations seeking to better understand and support this significant life and workplace transition.
While these conversations take place in different settings, they share a common purpose: helping women, leaders, and organisations better understand the changes they are experiencing and translating that understanding into practical, meaningful action.
Whether I am working with an individual woman or partnering with an organisation, my focus is on bringing greater clarity, confidence, and understanding to one of life's most significant transitions.
Why I Do This Work
I spent almost three decades working in international and Australian corporate environments before establishing AdventureYourself.
My career began in China, working directly with the CEO of a major European automotive manufacturer before relocating to Australia, completing my MBA, and building my career across governance, sustainability, compliance, and ESG within Australia's tier-one construction and infrastructure sector.
Those years gave me first-hand experience of high-performance workplaces, organisational complexity, competing priorities, complex decision-making, and the sustained cognitive load that many professionals carry every day.
They also showed me how easily capability can be questioned when performance changes, particularly when the underlying reasons are poorly understood.
During my corporate career, I was introduced to leadership coaching and became fascinated by the difference that understanding could make. When people recognised the patterns influencing their thinking, emotions, and behaviour, they responded differently. They made clearer decisions, communicated more effectively, and approached challenges with greater confidence.
That curiosity led me to train in coaching, neuroscience in leadership, workplace mindfulness, and menopause coaching.
Today, those disciplines come together in a practical coaching approach that helps women and organisations better understand the cognitive and emotional impacts of menopause and other significant transitions. It is an approach that is evidence-informed, practical, and grounded in the realities of modern workplaces.
Experience That Shapes My Perspective
Everything I bring to my work has been tested against real life.
Alongside my coaching practice, I continue to work within the Australian construction and infrastructure sector, allowing me to remain connected to the realities of complex organisations, leadership, and high-pressure environments.
Recently, I introduced the conversation around menopause to the construction industry through an industry podcast, helping broaden awareness of how menopause can influence workplace performance, leadership, and organisational culture in sectors where the topic has rarely been discussed.
My understanding of menopause is not only professional, but personal.
Like many women, I experienced perimenopause while balancing a demanding corporate career, significant responsibility, and long-distance hiking. It reinforced what I now see repeatedly in my work: menopause is rarely about losing capability. More often, it is about understanding how the brain and nervous system respond differently during a significant biological transition.
That experience continues to shape both my coaching and the way I work with organisations.
“When we understand what is changing, many women begin to feel like themselves again.”
The AdventureYourself Approach
AdventureYourself was built on a simple belief.
Some of life's greatest adventures are not the ones that take us across mountains or around the world. They are the ones that ask us to adapt, rethink who we are, and find new ways of moving forward when familiar strategies no longer work.
Perimenopause and menopause can be one of those adventures.
So can leadership, career change, burnout, or any period that asks us to respond differently to changing circumstances.
To AdventureYourself is to approach those moments with understanding rather than judgement, curiosity rather than fear, and intention rather than simply reacting to what is happening around us.
In practice, that means:
Recognising that meaningful change is built through everyday decisions.
Choosing steadiness over reactivity.
Setting healthier boundaries.
Responding more intentionally under pressure.
Understanding what your brain and nervous system need, rather than expecting them to perform as they always have.
Over time, these choices strengthen confidence, resilience, and the capacity to navigate whatever comes next.
This philosophy underpins every coaching program, workplace workshop, leadership session, and conversation I deliver.
Professional Qualifications
My work draws on nearly three decades of corporate experience together with specialist training in coaching, neuroscience, leadership, mindfulness, and menopause.
Professional qualifications include:
MBA
Advanced Diploma in Neuroscience in Leadership
Associate Certified Meta Coach
Certified Menopause Coach
Certified Workplace Mindfulness Facilitator
NLP Practitioner
Qualifications provide the foundation.
The real value comes from combining evidence-informed practice with lived experience and practical application in the environments where women and leaders work every day.
A Final Thought
I don't believe menopause marks the end of capability.
I believe it asks us to understand ourselves differently.
When we stop personalising what is physiological and begin working with our brain and nervous system rather than against them, clarity begins to return, confidence grows, and new possibilities begin to emerge.
Whether I am working with an individual woman, a leader, or an organisation, that belief remains the same.
Because when we understand what is changing, we are better equipped to respond with confidence, compassion, and clarity.
Let’s start a conversation.
Whether you're a woman navigating menopause or an organisation seeking to better support your people, every journey begins with understanding. If you'd like to explore how we can work together, I'd be delighted to start the conversation.