About
I help good work look
organised enough to trust.
I’m an American who has been living in Greater Manchester for over a decade — long enough to have well and truly put down roots here. One of the first things I did when we settled was find my way back to music.
I joined a choir that had been running since 1967, led by a founder and Music Director who was genuinely extraordinary. I became Chair. I loved every minute of it.
Then he retired. And for most people, that was that.
Eight of us weren’t ready to let it go. We looked at what else was out there — franchise choirs with backing tracks, a chorale with an audition process, a classical ensemble with no room for variety. None of it was quite right.
“The piano was still there, well-tuned and waiting.”
The Thursday night slot still worked for people with jobs and families and lives. So I said: let’s start our own.
What followed was a masterclass in building something from nothing. Website, constitution, membership system, ticketing, press enquiries, concert logistics, poster design, funding applications — all of it. I naturally gravitated toward building the systems and infrastructure that helped hold everything together. A new member recently told us we were remarkably well organised and professional for a choir not yet two years old. That meant a great deal.
“I know what it takes to build something from nothing, because I’ve done it.”
I’ve been a writer, a singer, a radio presenter, a Starbucks supervisor, an AI evaluator, and about a dozen other things besides. I’m Gen X — we tend to collect experiences rather than careers, and I’ve never really seen that as a problem. I grew up in music: choirs, concert bands, marching bands, music school. Creativity and organisation have always lived side by side in how I work.
Everything in Harmony grew out of that same instinct. People started asking me to help with their websites, their documents, their design work, their systems. I kept saying yes, because I genuinely enjoy it and I’m good at it. Eventually it made sense to stop treating it as a side thing and do it properly.
What I do is put the practical pieces around good work: words, design, digital tools, and systems that help local organisations, independent professionals, performers, and community-rooted projects look clearer, work better, and feel easier to trust.
The people I work with — choirs, community groups, independent trainers, performers, freelancers, sole traders — are so often brilliant at what they do and almost invisible online. Their best presence is a Facebook page. Their website, if they have one, hasn’t been touched in years. They’re managing everything across seven spreadsheets and a shared drive nobody can find anything in.
They don’t need agency money. They need someone who genuinely understands their work and cares whether it looks right.
“It doesn’t have to cost agency money to fix it.”
Working for yourself takes a certain kind of person. It’s not easy, and not everyone understands that. I do — because I am one.
I work from home. No office, no account manager, no overhead passed on to you. Everything happens remotely — phone calls, video calls, whatever works for you. Just someone who genuinely cares about your work and wants to help you do more with it.
If that sounds like what you need — I’d love to hear about it.