The women behind Opal Circle.

Throughout my career I worked with women navigating divorce and bereavement from the inside of a professional system that was not always built to serve them well. I watched capable, intelligent women receive poor advice, incomplete information, and outcomes that did not reflect what they deserved.

This mission also hits very personally. I am one of four girls. I am a mother of three girls. The women I have watched go through this process include people I care about deeply, clients who trusted me, and friends I have sat with through their worst moments.

I have also seen what this does to the families around these women. The husband facing a terminal diagnosis who lies awake worrying what his wife's life would look like without him. The adult children who want to help their mother but do not have the resources or the knowledge to do it as they would have liked to. Better outcomes for these women mean better outcomes for everyone around them.

The right kind of providers exist. But they are hard to find, and even harder to tell apart. Finding the right provider is part of what you need, alongside access to the right information, community and tools to navigate this process with confidence. Opal Circle exists to bring all of that together in one place.

For twenty-five years I built a career on being the person people turn to in a crisis, the one who gets the right people in a room, gets things moving, gets results. So when my own marriage ended in a bitter divorce, I assumed I would handle it the way I handled everything else. Instead, I found myself staring at a pile of unopened mail, unable to make sense of finances I had never been part of, fighting a legal battle I did not see coming. The woman who ran three companies could not run her own life for a while.

I am a mother to a daughter I've tried to raise strong enough that this would never happen to her. Five years ago, I lost my own mother, and watched my father, who had always handled things, try to find his footing as a widower.

For years I've helped women navigate exactly this, one at a time, the right advisor, the right question, the reminder that they weren't foolish for not knowing. Opal Circle lets me do that at scale.

I have been the woman who felt capable and lost at the same time. Now I get to join you on your journey, so you do not have to face your mail, your situation or your future alone.

Twelve years ago my life as I knew it collapsed, and I came to London with almost nothing. What I remember most clearly is not the leaving. It is that the people closest to me, the ones I expected to hold me, blamed me instead. I arrived alone, and for a long time I stayed that way.

What changed it was one connection, and then another. Thread by thread I found people, and then I began building the room where other women could find each other. I have done it ever since. Wherever I am, I host. The community I built for mothers who had arrived here the way I did grew into hundreds of women, and the person it changed most was me.

Since then I have watched friends go through divorce. My closest friend from childhood. A mother from my children's school. My neighbour, only recently. None of them asked for help. Women rarely do. They are so careful with everyone else that they do not know where to begin asking. So the help has to already be there, before she has to explain herself.

That is why I am here. If you come to Opal Circle, I will put your interests first, every time. And whatever you bring, I can hold it.

For years I led the philanthropic arm of a family office, directing significant funding to causes I cared about. That work taught me how much listening, and being present with people when they are most vulnerable, matter alongside the funding itself.

After watching close friends go through complex divorces without the right support, I retrained as a divorce coach. It showed me what women need at this point in their lives, and I wanted to be part of providing it.

I am here to walk alongside the women in this community, helping them move forward with clarity and confidence, and learning alongside them as we go.

My friends and family would describe me as warm, caring and solution-oriented. I hope to be exactly who you need in your corner.