Hello, I’m Sue.
I'm a registered nutritional therapist, a Fellow Chartered Accountant and a former leader in professional services. It's an unusual combination, perhaps, but one that's shaped the way I think about health, human performance and the realities of making changes to the way we live.
After more than 30 years in business, including leadership roles at Deloitte, I decided to take my longstanding interest in nutrition and human physiology in a new direction.
Today, I bring those two worlds together through Dartmouth Nutrition Studio, working with individuals to improve their health, and through The Physiology of Leadership Performance, bringing a new perspective to leadership development.
Two careers, one perspective
My years in professional services gave me first-hand experience of demanding working lives, competing priorities and the pressures that can push our own health to the bottom of the list.
They also taught me a great deal about people. Coaching and mentoring others, listening to their concerns, understanding what motivates them and helping them find their own way forward were some of the most rewarding parts of my career.
Another important thread was looking beyond the obvious to understand why things happen. In my work on audit quality, that meant exploring root causes and recognising that problems often arise from several interacting factors, rather than one simple explanation.
My subsequent training in nutritional therapy and human physiology brought a new dimension to that approach. It gave me a deeper understanding of how nutrition, sleep, stress, metabolism and other physiological factors interact, and how looking at these connections can help us understand what's contributing to someone's health concerns or affecting how they feel and perform.
Today, I bring these perspectives together in two complementary areas of work. With individuals, I combine nutritional expertise with the listening and coaching skills I've developed throughout my career, helping people find practical ways to make changes that work for them. With organisations, I explore how physiology can influence leadership performance, and how that understanding can strengthen existing approaches to leadership development.
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Nutritional Therapy — First Class
BANT Registered Nutritionist® | CNHC Registered Nutritional Therapist
FCA — Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Over 30 years' experience in finance, professional services and leadership, including as a Managing Director at Deloitte.
Why Dartmouth?
After so many years of city living and a career that involved long hours, frequent travel and more airports than I care to remember, Dartmouth offered something I hadn't realised how much I'd been missing: a real sense of community.
People here stop to talk. We know our neighbours. We make eye contact with strangers. It sounds simple, but after years of rushing from one commitment to the next, I found it changed how I felt about life — and about myself.
I began spending more time here, eventually making Dartmouth my permanent home. Along the way, I also came to recognise just how much the pressures of my working life had affected my health, my outlook and even the person I'd become.
That experience has influenced the work I do today. Health isn't just about what we eat or how much we exercise. It's also about the lives we lead, the pressures we're under and whether we have enough space for the things that make life enjoyable.
And, of course, Dartmouth is extraordinarily beautiful. At the end of the week, there's not much I enjoy more than walking out towards the castle, looking out to sea and stopping for an ice cream — or a cup of tea and a biscuit. Yes, nutritionists eat biscuits too.
Working with me
Although I'm based in Dartmouth, I work with individual clients online, wherever they're based, and with organisations nationally and internationally.
Whether we're exploring your personal health or the physiological demands of leadership, my approach is grounded in evidence, shaped around real lives and guided by a simple belief: improving health should add to life, not take pleasure away from it.