My Story

ABOUT ME

I first got my taste for natural health by calling into the local health food store on my way home from school each night to buy goats milk for my lactose intolerant toddler brother, from the age of 14.   I was constantly asking the owner questions on the vast array of supplements, and I was hooked!  I opened my own Health Store 9 years later and embarked on my entrepreneurial career in natural health!    After spending most of the 1990's training in various therapies, for body and mind, and running a successful therapy practice, and supplements wholesalers,

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in 1999 I started the Sports Therapy Organisation, a UK based professional association for sports injury professionals, followed in 2000, with Active Health Group, which is now the leading provider of sports medicine, health coaching and nutritional therapy training in the UK.  

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My passion is helping others succeed, and so I still see therapy and coaching clients, as well as teach on the courses that we run at Active Health Group.  If you pop into our plant-based, gluten-free cafe within our Active Wellness Centre in Manchester City Centre, you may even see me behind the counter helping out! 

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Through my career, I have hit pretty much every high and every low, and take everything as a teaching aid to help me grow, both self, and business.  I offer business coaching and mentoring to wellness businesses, retailers, and hospitality businesses.   

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Despite what seems to be a very busy career, I still get 8 hours sleep every night, go on regular trips away, and most importantly have lots of quality time with my family! 

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PUBLICATIONS

As well as developing training courses up to degree level, I have written the following books:

2002 - DETOX (out of print)

2019 - The Recipe for Success (Co-authored with Jack Canfield)

2023 - Supercharged Productivity in Business and Personal Life

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MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine

Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health
Fellow of the Sports Therapy Organisation

Member of the Federation of Nutritional Therapy Practitioners

Member of the International Coaching Federation

Registered with the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council

Member of the British Association of Lifestyle Medicine

Member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine