My Story

My life and my work are so intertwined. I said my first words at eight months old and was saying full sentences by 12 months… and I haven’t stopped talking since with a career as a radio host, TV reporter, interviewer and workshop facilitator. My commitment to helping charities also goes back to my childhood when, at five years old, I sold my art to raise money for a local children’s charity… fortunately I developed other skills for fundraising as I am not an artist.

I was the first female ‘disc jockey’ on commercial radio in Sydney. I was the ‘Good News Reporter’ on the national breakfast television programme Good Morning Australia. I covered the royal tour of Charles and Diana in the 1980s and interviewed Tom Cruise for the first Top Gun movie.

In 1999 we moved from Sydney to London for adventure and I changed from my media career to being a fundraiser growing a caring and very effective Development Committee at the Lyric Hammersmith and instituting successful fundraising Galas starring Jude Law, Mel Giedroyc, Will Young and incredible young people. I then became Director of Development at LAMDA seeing it through some major changes and taking my Gala format there and having the joy of working with brilliant students and the incredible alumni including Benedict Cumberbatch, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Dame Harriet Walter, Leah Harvey, Rory Kinnear, Natalie Simpson, John Lithgow, Jim Broadbent and Sir David Suchet. I am very grateful to the wonderful donors who have supported along the way and have joined me in my freelance world.

I am the eldest of five and love being part of a family, whether it’s spending time with my grown up children and grandchildren or the extended families one forms with friends and colleagues.

I love sharing my energy (which, as most can attest, is fairly boundless) to help motivate people to make the most of their lives both personally and professionally.