Clarity isn't found at the top.

It's built on the way up - with the right questions, honest answers, and someone who won't let you take the easy path

That's not a coaching cliché. It's what I've seen play out over twenty years of working with people at every stage of their careers.

The clarity people are looking for is almost always already there — buried under unquestioned assumptions, calcified habits, and questions nobody has thought to ask. What's missing, more often than not, isn't talent or ambition. It's a framework for thinking about your career with the same rigour you'd bring to anything else you take seriously.

That's why I built We Are Mhòr.

A little about me

I started in recruitment, moved into executive search, then into higher education and employer engagement at the University of Edinburgh. Training as a coach was the piece that brought it all together — it gave me the framework to do something I'd been doing instinctively: helping people see what they couldn't see themselves.

Today I lead an Alumni Career Centre at one of the world's leading business schools, working with mid-career and senior professionals navigating complex career challenges. We Are Mhòr is the practice I've built alongside that — for individuals and organisations who want something more structured, more strategic, and more honest than most career support offers.

Fellow of the Association for Coaching · Masters in Global Human Resources · Accredited in Belbin and MHS Emotional Intelligence diagnostics · Board member, CAP Alliance

How I work

I blend positive psychology with action-oriented coaching — because insight on its own is just interesting. What matters is what you do with it.

I’ll ask questions you haven’t asked yourself, challenge the assumptions keeping you stuck, and hold you to the actions you commit to. With warmth, always — because this work requires trust, and trust requires honesty on both sides.

Who is this for?

I work with mid-career and senior professionals who’ve hit a moment of friction — a role that no longer fits, a next step that isn’t obvious, or simply the sense that they could be navigating their career with more intention.

I also work with organisations who want to offer their people something more substantive than a workshop — structured, strategic support that actually changes how people think and act.

Frequently Asked Questions

Your question not covered? Get in touch — hello@wearemhor.com

  • Coaching creates the conditions for better thinking — it’s where assumptions get examined, patterns become visible, and you develop new ways of understanding yourself and your work. Career design is more tactical: it’s structured, tool-led, and built around a specific destination. Both are valuable, but they serve different needs. Not sure which one’s right for you? Get in touch and we’ll work it out together.

  • A mentor gives you THEIR map. A therapist helps you examine your past. A coach helps you figure out where you actually want to go — and holds you to it. I’m not here to tell you what I’d do, or to unpack your past. I’m here to help you think more clearly and move with intention.

  • Not directly. We Are Mhòr isn't a recruitment agency or headhunting service — we don't place people in roles or broker introductions to employers. What we do is help you get clear on what you actually want, build the self-knowledge to go after it, and develop the confidence to make it happen. Finding the right opportunity is yours to do — we make sure you're ready when you do.

  • It’s actually a very good reason to start. Most people who come to We Are Mhòr arrive without a clear destination — that’s not a barrier, it’s the work. You don’t need the answers. You need the right conditions to find them.

  • Every session is different — because every person and every moment in a career is different. Some sessions are pure conversation; others draw on structured tools, diagnostics, or frameworks where they add something useful. What stays constant is the focus: Mhorag will ask the questions you haven’t thought to ask yourself, challenge where it’s useful, and make sure you leave with clarity on what comes next.

  • Worth asking yourself: how much time are you currently spending feeling unclear, frustrated, or going in circles? We Are Mhòr works around your reality — typically one session a month. That’s an hour. The return on that hour tends to be disproportionate.

  • Not at all. Some people come to We Are Mhòr at a genuine crossroads. Others simply want to feel more confident, more strategic, or more in control of where things are heading — without necessarily changing everything. The work is just as valuable either way. What matters isn’t the scale of the move — it’s the intention behind it.

  • Then we talk about it — honestly. Coaching isn’t always a straight line, and some of the most valuable sessions are the ones that surface a better question rather than a clean answer. I’ll challenge you if something isn’t landing, and we’ll adapt. No bluffing, no pretending.

  • Treating your career as something worth thinking seriously about isn’t a luxury. It’s a strategy. The professionals who tend to move with the most confidence are the ones who’ve invested in understanding themselves — not the ones who waited for something to go wrong before paying attention.

  • The majority of We Are Mhòr clients engage on a programme basis rather than pay-per-session — which means they’re investing in a proper piece of work, not a one-off conversation. Self-funding and employer-funded arrangements are both straightforward. If your situation is specific, just get in touch and we’ll sort something sensible.

  • Some people feel a shift after the first session. Lasting change — the kind that holds when things get complicated — usually takes two to three months to properly bed in. We Are Mhòr programmes are built with that in mind, so the work compounds rather than fades.