About GAIA
GAIA was established in response to a recurring gap seen across complex organisations – the gap between intent and outcome.
Too often, strategic decisions are made without sufficient grounding in delivery realities, while execution is expected to succeed without the structure, governance or clarity required to support it. GAIA exists to close that gap.
We operate with a simple philosophy: clarity enables control, and control enables delivery. Our role is to help organisations create the conditions in which decisions can be executed confidently, responsibly and to standard.
How GAIA Thinks
GAIA approaches organisational challenges through a systems lens. We look beyond isolated problems to understand how decisions, structures, incentives and controls interact in practice.
Our work is shaped by environments where failure carries consequence – regulated sectors, public accountability, complex delivery chains and high-stakes programmes. In these settings, success depends less on ambition and more on discipline, clarity and sustained oversight.
This perspective informs how we engage, how we advise and how we deliver.
How GAIA Operates
GAIA is deliberately structured to remain focused, senior-led and accountable. We do not operate large pyramidal teams or dilute responsibility across layers.
Engagements are shaped around the specific context, maturity and risk profile of each organisation, with an emphasis on proportionate intervention and sustained ownership. This allows us to support clients requiring advisory insight, delivery capability or a combination of both – without fragmenting responsibility.
Founder-Led by Design
GAIA’s approach reflects the experience and judgement of its leadership. The firm is founder-led by design, ensuring that strategic insight, delivery understanding and accountability are not abstract concepts, but embedded into every engagement.
Founder & Principal
GAIA is led by its Founder and Principal, who brings over two decades of international experience across complex, regulated and high-stakes environments.
Her professional background spans senior advisory, governance, programme delivery and operational leadership roles, with extensive experience across UK and international contexts. She has worked with organisations operating under public accountability, regulatory scrutiny and delivery pressure – where clarity of decision-making and disciplined execution are critical.
Throughout her career, she has supported executives, senior leadership teams and programme sponsors on matters including strategic direction, governance reinforcement, programme recovery and delivery oversight. Her work often sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, ensuring that decisions are grounded in delivery reality and that implementation is supported by appropriate structure and control.
This depth of experience allows her to operate comfortably across both advisory-led and execution-focused engagements. She is known for a calm, discreet and outcomes-driven approach, particularly in environments where failure, delay or ambiguity carry real consequence.
GAIA reflects this founder-led philosophy: practical, delivery-aware and accountable – ensuring senior attention, clear judgement and disciplined execution across every engagement.
Experience Highlights
• Over 20 years’ experience across UK and international environments
• Executive and senior leadership advisory exposure
• Complex programme delivery and governance oversight
• Regulated, public-sector and high-stakes delivery contexts
• Strategy-to-execution leadership