Why this matters to me
For more than 30 years, I built and led my own businesses. I understand the pressures and responsibility that come with a successful career. I also know what it feels like when the role you've worked so hard to create no longer feels quite the right fit.
Like many of the women I work with, there came a point when I began asking different questions. Not because I'd lost my ambition or ability, but because my priorities were changing. At 57, the obvious assumption was that I should be thinking about retirement. But I wasn't ready to stop contributing, I simply wanted to contribute differently.
That realisation shaped the philosophy behind ProAge and inspired the PROAGE Clarity Framework™. I believe the years leading to and beyond traditional retirement aren't about winding down; they're about choosing how you want to use everything you've learned.
Today, I help accomplished women make sense of what's changing, rethink what's possible and confidently shape what's next on their own terms.
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Testimonials
Discover how my coaching has helped others find clarity, confidence and fulfilment. Their experiences might just inspire your own next step.
Jackie created a safe space where I could honestly explore the issues that had been holding me back for years. Her direct, insightful approach challenged my thinking, helped me break old patterns and gave me the clarity and confidence to move forward with purpose.
Working with Jackie gave me a new perspective on both my life and myself. Her coaching challenged me to think more deeply, reflect differently and ultimately take a significant step forward. I've learned so much from our sessions and feel better equipped to move forward with confidence.
Looking back to where I started, compared with where I am now, it really does feel like night and day. I'm so much more confident and positive, and that's thanks to Jackie, who gave me the space to think clearly, challenge my thinking and find the direction that was right for me.
Jackie's coaching has been a truly transformative experience. Without our sessions, I'm sure I would have felt far more anxious and stressed about my work and where I was heading. Instead, I now feel so much more confident and in control of my future, ironically because I've learned to embrace uncertainty rather than fear it.
Working with Jackie helped me overcome the beliefs that had been holding me back. Her coaching has had a profound impact on both my confidence and the way I approach my work. I genuinely enjoy what I do so much more as a result, and I'm incredibly grateful for her thoughtful and sincere approach.
At the end of a 35-year Armed Forces career, Jackie provided invaluable guidance at a critical point in my transition. Always professional, kind and discreet, she worked at my pace while offering thoughtful challenge and compassionate, balanced feedback. Her insight gave me the confidence and clarity I needed to move forward.
Following my appointment to a number of external boards, I wanted to develop my leadership style and strengthen my self-belief. Jackie's supportive, direct and, at times, challenging approach kept me honest while helping me grow in confidence and gain a deeper understanding of myself. It was an incredibly valuable experience.
Pause: create space to think and reflect
Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do isn't push harder. It's to pause and reflect.
For many accomplished women, life has been about building careers, businesses and families, solving problems and looking after everyone else. We become so used to doing that we rarely stop to ask ourselves what we need. Then something begins to shift. The career that once excited you no longer feels quite the same. Your priorities change. Success starts to mean something different. You know something needs to change, but you can't quite put your finger on what.
Pause isn't about standing still. It's about creating the time and space to step out of autopilot, reconnect with yourself and understand what's changing, so you can move forward with greater clarity and intention.
Awaken: reconnect with yourself
When your life reflects who you are today, everything starts to feel different.
As we move through life, our priorities naturally change. What mattered ten or twenty years ago may no longer fit the person you've become. Yet many of us carry on living by old expectations, habits and definitions of success that no longer serve us.
Awaken is about reconnecting with yourself: your strengths, your experience your values and what matters most to you now. When your choices begin to reflect who you've become, rather than who you think you should be, life starts to feel more meaningful, purposeful and true to you.
Evolve: shape the future you want
Your next chapter isn't about becoming someone new. It's about becoming more of who you already are and intentionally designing a life that reflects what matters most to you.
When we begin to see ageing not as the end of possibility, but as the beginning of a different kind of opportunity—one shaped by experience, perspective and choice—we start to approach this stage of life with optimism and excitement.
With experience comes perspective. With perspective comes confidence. And with confidence comes the freedom to make choices that reflect the life you want to live and in a way that works best for you.
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