Between two worlds
The Question about Inner Peace
From a young age, I was deeply attuned to the world around me, its beauty, its complexity, and its pain. I felt things intensely, and for a long time I didn’t quite know what to do with that.
I built a career in finance and investment banking, where success was defined by speed, performance, and results. Outwardly, I was doing well, but inwardly I was carrying a question I couldn’t yet articulate: how do we create real change, for ourselves, for organisations, for the world, without losing connection to what actually matters?
That question didn’t go away and instead it deepened.
Seeing the bigger picture
Everything Is Interconnected
My desire to understand this more deeply led me through several worlds, in practice and through study.
I studied at the London School of Economics and attended the General Management Program at Harvard Business School before pursuing a PhD at ETH Zurich, where I investigated financial crises through the lens of complex systems thinking. It gave me a scientific language for something I had long sensed to be true: that everything is interconnected, and that deep and lasting transformation begins with a shift in consciousness, which in turn shapes how we think, act, and lead.
I began to see a simple but profound pattern. The challenges we face in business, society, and the environment are not isolated but deeply interconnected, and many of them share the same root: a fundamental disconnection from ourselves, from each other, and from the natural world.
From insight to practice
Inner Work for Outer Impact
This understanding shaped everything I do. My work sits at the intersection of inner transformation, systems thinking, and conscious leadership, bringing together experience in finance, governance, and leadership with mindfulness-based practices designed to help leaders navigate complexity with greater awareness, clarity, and intention.
Meditation has been part of my life for over 25 years. I trained as a mindfulness meditation teacher under Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, recognised by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and I also trained as a transformational breath coach. Over time I came to see breathwork as one of the most direct and powerful ways to access the body’s innate capacity for healing, release, and clarity.
Over time, I came to understand that sensitivity,the capacity to feel deeply and perceive clearly,is not a liability in leadership but one of its most essential qualities.
Bringing it into the world
Leadership, Service, and Impact
Today I bring this work into the world through transformational retreats for executives and senior leaders, and through writing and speaking on conscious leadership and systemic change.
I serve as a Board Member and former Chairwoman of The Klosters Forum, an environmental non-profit bringing together leaders across sectors to accelerate positive environmental change. In 2025 I published Conscious Impact: Mindful Leadership for Meaningful Change (Triarchy Press), a practical six-week programme for leaders who want to integrate inner work with outer action. I am honoured to be featured in Standing Up for the Planet: 45 Stories of Extraordinary Women Who Are Changing the World.
I no longer see leadership as a choice between inner peace and outer impact, because for me it is an ongoing practice of integration, reconnection, and leading from a place of wholeness.
I live near Zurich, Switzerland, with my husband, our two children, and our dogs.
