I grew up in Tower Hamlets. Exploited into violence and drugs from ten. In gangs by twelve. Violently attacked at fifteen. At thirty I was diagnosed with heart failure, became a single mother of a three-month-old, and a doctor told me to write my will.

I wrote a bucket list instead.

I’ve been on every side of the systems I now speak, train, and coach on – as the child they failed, the professional working inside them, and the parent fighting them from the outside, home educating my own AuDHD daughter. That dual perspective, lived and professional, is where The Duck’s Back Method™ came from – a framework I built for myself before I ever took it to a stage, a boardroom, or a classroom.

I trained as an NLP Master Practitioner because I wanted the mechanics behind what actually changes behaviour and identity under pressure, not just the story of having survived it. I spent thirteen years teaching, including in specialist SEND settings, before founding myHomeEdPlan – a personalised education platform for neurodivergent children, built after the system couldn’t meet my own daughter where she was.

What I Do

Today I work with individuals, workplaces, and schools and youth organisations – through keynotes, training, and coaching, all grounded in the The Duck’s Back Method™: Preen, Shed, Shake, Return. Whether it’s a person rebuilding after adversity, a manager wanting training in how to support neurodivergent employees, a school trying to understand what a young person is actually experiencing, or the young people themselves, the underlying mechanism is the same.

Only the pressure changes.

I’m an award-winning advocate who speaks internationally, including at the Houses of Commons and the UN Women UK Commission on the Status of Women. I am also an Amazon category bestselling author and have contributed on BBC Radio. I serve my community as a ward panel chair and Tower Hamlets Safer Neighbourhood Board member, Scouts group trustee, and I am a former specialist teacher, school governor, and Cardiomyopathy UK support group leader.

I still home educate my daughter. I still chair the ward panel. I’m still disabled with multiple chronic illnesses. I still climb things I probably shouldn’t, medically speaking. This isn’t a redemption story with a tidy ending – it’s an ongoing one, and I bring all of it into every room, boardroom, and classroom I work in.