About Me
About Me
Hi, I’m Tamsin.
I help leaders think clearly when the answer is not obvious.
My work sits at the intersection of leadership, organisational change and the future of work.
I bring more than two decades of experience across education, hospitality, consulting, coaching and leadership development. The thread running through it has always been the same: understanding people in context, seeing the wider system and helping leaders navigate competing pressures with greater clarity.
From Classrooms and Canvas Tents to the Boardroom
I started my career as a teacher in the UK before moving to Botswana and into safari operations.
What began in a completely unfamiliar environment became five formative years working across training, management development and localisation. I built a training function to help develop local people into more senior roles, often working in remote corners of the Okavango Delta.
It taught me a great deal about entering systems I did not yet understand, listening before assuming, working across cultures and building capability that should ultimately belong to the people inside the organisation.
From there I moved to Cape Town and into luxury hospitality, hotel openings and consulting with hospitality businesses, wine farms and smaller organisations.
Since 2011, I have worked independently across coaching, leadership development and organisational consulting, with founders, senior leaders and teams in the UK, South Africa and beyond.
The settings have been very different. Each has added another lens through which I understand people, work, leadership and organisations.
Why I Do This Work
Leadership decisions do not stay contained in the room where they are made.
They shape how work is designed, what people are rewarded for, what becomes possible, what gets lost, and ultimately what kind of organisation takes shape.
That matters even more when technology, economic pressure and uncertainty are accelerating the pace of change.
I do this work because I believe leaders have a responsibility to make those choices consciously. Not perfectly, and not with certainty, but with enough depth and awareness to understand the trade-offs and remain accountable for what follows.
I also believe businesses can be commercially successful while creating better working lives, and that leaders have a meaningful role in shaping that possibility.
For me, good leadership comes down to this: you have influence. Use it consciously, and stand behind what it creates.
How I Work
I rarely assume the first answer is the whole answer.
I start with curiosity. I listen to the people around the issue, look for patterns and contradictions, test the assumptions underneath the problem and pay attention to what is happening elsewhere in the system.
I am comfortable holding more than one truth at once. Complexity, tension and uncertainty do not have to be forced into a neat answer before they are properly understood.
Working with me is collaborative. I bring a point of view, listen closely to the perspectives around me and work with what emerges. The aim is to develop something stronger than any one person could have arrived at alone.
Underneath that way of working is a combination of psychological understanding, commercial and organisational experience, pattern recognition and a willingness to challenge thinking when something does not quite add up.
My role is to widen the frame, sharpen the thinking and help you make decisions you are prepared to stand behind.
Professional Grounding
My approach is informed by both lived experience and formal professional training.
My qualifications include:
- BA (QTS) Sports Science & History
- Inner Life Skills Master Coach and Trainer (ICF accredited service provider)
- Advanced Counselling and Communication (SACAP)
- Integrative Enneagram training (Integrative Enneagram Solutions)
Alongside that sits more than two decades of experience in education, hospitality, leadership development, coaching and organisational consulting across different sectors, cultures and working environments
Let’s Talk
If you are working through a decision, transition or period of change that will shape what happens next, I’d be happy to talk it through with you.