Before you figure out what you want to do next, spend time learning how you operate.
The way you work.
Rest.
Process.
Decide.
Move through life.
A lot of people are building futures from versions of themselves they haven’t fully understood yet.
I’ve created a reflective tool to help you notice the gap between how you’ve been living and how you naturally operate.
The Personal Operating Snapshot is now live.
Link in bio.
For a long time, I thought my work was about helping people pivot.
But underneath it was something deeper.
Helping people understand themselves more honestly.
Reframe the stories they’ve been living inside.
And design lives that actually support who they actually are.
By Design is the umbrella for that work.
A philosophy around:
- self-trust over self-optimisation
- modern ambition
- understanding how you naturally operate
designing supportive conditions instead of constantly overriding yourself
- building a life that feels good internally, not just looks good externally
This is the world I’m building now.
Self by Design.
Work by Design.
Live by Design.
Less default. More intentional living.
Welcome to By Design.
Wow yesterday I got the honour of being on a panel at @greatermcr@bizgrowthhub GM Creative Industries Exchange with some incredible people!
The topic was all about stability, sustainability and the future of the work.
This has been my focus for the last 8 months, both personally and professionally.
Most people don’t burn out because they worked too hard.
They burn out because they’ve been working in a way that was never built for them.
Borrowed systems. Borrowed schedules. Borrowed versions of success.
Forget everything you’ve been told about how to work.
Understand yourself first. Everything else follows.
Living by design, not by default.
@dkcoaching_
Thank you @rachelchesters for hosting such an important conversation 🎤
Self by Design is my 1:1 coaching container for people in transition.
The ones who are capable, ambitious, reflective, but tired of overriding themselves to keep up with a life, career or identity that no longer fully fits.
Inside the work, we look at who you’ve been, what you’ve been carrying, how you naturally operate, and what needs to be redesigned from the inside out.
This isn’t about becoming a new person.
It’s about building the self-trust to become more of who you already are.
If you’re in that space between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming, this is the work.
DM me SELF or book an introductory call via the link in my bio.
A lot of ambitious people don’t actually have a capability issue.
They have a self-trust issue.
Especially after rejection, burnout, redundancy, difficult work environments, or periods of uncertainty.
The work isn’t always about becoming “more”.
Sometimes it’s about reconnecting to who you already are underneath the pressure.
That’s a lot of the work I do inside Self by Design™.
Helping ambitious people reconnect to themselves and design lives that actually support them.
Book an introductory call via the link in bio.
Ran a workshop for @generatormcr today.
For the ambitious people who are no longer willing to override themselves in the pursuit of success.
This is modern ambition.
The more rooms I step into, the more I realise how many ambitious people know how to build externally, but haven’t always been given the space to turn their attention inwards.
I’m here to change that
Stopped overriding myself.
Then started teaching people to do the same.
Today’s workshop at @venturecafemanchester with a room full of ambitious people who were open to looking inward!
‘Build Your Personal Operating System’
📷 @thishartofmine ❤️
A lot of people don’t need another strategy.
They need permission to trust themselves again.
Most of the people I work with are already capable, intelligent and ambitious.
What’s often missing isn’t potential.
It’s Self-belief. Clarity. Permission.
A life that actually fits them.
That’s the work.
Ready to build a life that actually fits you?
Book an introductory call, link in bio.
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In a room full of builders and innovators, I’ll be running a 30-minute workshop inviting people to turn their attention inwards.
We spend so much time focusing on what we’re building externally, but not nearly enough time understanding how we’re operating while we build it.
Thank you to Venture Café Manchester for the opportunity to speak to these high-achieving, capable people about the most important thing they’ll ever build…
themselves. 🙏🏽
My session is 5:15 - 5.45 and it’s completely free!
Most people don’t need more intention.
They need to question the life they’ve built.
Because you can journal, optimise your routine, and do all the “right” things…
and still feel off.
Not because you’re doing something wrong,
but because your life doesn’t actually fit you.
Living intentionally isn’t just about adding more habits.
It’s so much more.
Take the Free Life Design Audit to see where you’re living by design and where you’re living by intention.
Link in bio 🔗
It’s not your strategy.
It’s your starting point.
You’re trying to build a life that works
without understanding how you work.
That’s why it looks good on paper…
but feels off in reality.
Start there.
DM me “Design” if you’re ready to get it right.
