My working life has always revolved around driving. I started my driving career working for Royal Mail, gaining my LGV class 1 license at the age of 21, and have been passionate about driving ever since! After many years and experiences on the road, I wanted a career change to promote safer driving and once I started training as an instructor I knew I'd made the right decision and never looked back.

I was immediately interested in Continuing Professional Development as I've always wanted to be the best trainer I can be. I started with my Fleet badge and progressed onto BTEC Level 4 Award in Coaching for Driver Development. This made an almost immediate difference to both my pupils and the growth of my business and was also reflected in my next Check Test where I was graded level 6 on all elements on the old system.  I am now a Grade A instructor. I went on to be an aCCeLerate and BTEC4 trainer which I did until 2020 and I wholeheartedly believe that a coaching approach is the way forward in promoting safer drivers on the road.

In 2014 I attended the DriverMetrics® accreditation course, delivered personally by Dr. Lisa Dorn at Cranfield University and became a DriverMetrics® accredited coach delivering Insight into Action™ Driver Coaching sessions.

Continuing my own CPD, I am now trained to teach others to become driving instructors, I became ORDIT registered in 2017 and offer independent driving instructor training for those who want to become an instructor, standards check training, ORDIT training with Innovative Driving Education Academy and Drive Calm training with Confident Drivers.

My passion for coaching has led me to explore coaching outside of the driver training industry to study with the Coaching Academy. I have studied for the Diploma in Personal Development and Diploma in Small Business Coaching during 2019. I continued my learning journey by completing an NLP practitioners’ course in early 2020 as well as becoming accredited to carry out DISC personality profiling with teams and individuals.

I'm proud to say that in 2024 I was accepted into the Institute of Master Tutors of Driving.