What I do now...

My work focuses on three core ways I can help:

Website in 1 Day - one day, £10, and you leave with a real WordPress website built on your own domain and your own hosting. I ran the original event in 2012 for 1,000 women; this is the same idea, rebuilt for a world where AI can help but you still need to be in the driving seat.

Build Different - 4 weeks, 10 people. This is a quarterly cohort to work out out what's genuinely worth building now that AI can do so much of what people used to pay for. There's no need for a 6/12 month-long business-building programme - this gets you started...quickly.

Lock In - a monthly group working space for people who've done the thinking and are now building on their early success.

The order is intentional: Get something of your own online. Work out what's worth building on it. Then keep building.

Why me?

Because I've done it...repeatedly, from scratch, and most of it before everyone was online creating content.

I left Accenture in 2004. I'd looked at the partners above me and realised they weren't who I wanted to be or how I wanted to live. So I left with a Plan B - retrain as a personal trainer and holistic health coach.

After investing £££s in training and setting up a business with early client success, I realised I hated actually training people. In a twist of events, I hit the road and became nomadic while running my business online - this included starting a globally popular blog documenting the whole 'digital nomad' thing, which ended up being featured by the Guardian, the BBC, Cosmopolitan Sweden, the Sydney Morning Herald, numerous other global media outlets and in Oliver Burkeman's Guardian column, "This column will change your life".

I built a large community around this, hired a team of writers and editors and lived the life for the best part of 8 years before deciding being nomadic with 2 kids under 5 wasn't what I wanted anymore!

Over the years that followed, I built an online school and tech helpdesk for women who'd been told the technical side wasn't for them. I faciliated and co-hosted the UK's first national conference for professional illustrators, two years running. I ran the original 1K in 1 Day back in 2012. Most of it remotely, and long before "location independent" was used as casually as it is today (I coined that phrase - it was the name of my original blog!).

Then in 2020, mid-pandemic, I co-founded an EdTech company, built a team of 30+ from nothing, and scaled it to an eight-figure valuation in under 18 months. I left when the environment stopped being one I could keep building in - a decision I've made more than once, on principle and on gut instinct.

Since 2009, every one of these things has been built while home-educating my two kids - the last ten years of it as a solo parent. There has never been a version of my work that happened around a school day or someone else's childcare. Fitting the building in around real life isn't a topic I cover; it's the only way I've ever done it. I believe in life integration, not life balance.

None of this was an escape from work. It was a deliberate pursuit and creation of work, on my own terms.

The organisational and corporate work...

Alongside this, my day job for the past several years has been as interim executive leadership - usually as a COO, sometimes as a transformation lead, occasionally as a CEO or Executive Director - for organisations that need to change quickly and credibly: ones in crisis, ones outgrowing their original model, ones whose stated values and operational reality have drifted apart.

I started in global consulting at Accenture, where I learned how large organisations actually work and how that gap gets institutionalised. I still take on interim and advisory work.

I advise leaders and boards on operational design, equity, governance, and the systems that keep stated values alive under pressure. Through Mission Equality CIC, the community interest company I founded, I designed and delivered an anti-racism curriculum for YWCA Southeast Wisconsin and opened their 2023 Circle of Women event in Milwaukee. Between 2023 and 2025 I spent two years alongside Systemic Justice as a consultant, designing and facilitating five full-team retreats and stepping in as Executive Director for four months while the founder was on compassionate leave. I moderated a panel at the Ashoka Changemaker Summit in Hamburg in 2024 and presented the closing workshop at Progressive Education: Education Past, Present, Future in April 2026.

The gap I close inside organisations is the same one I work on with individuals...

Organisations state their values but don't build the systems to operationalise them. People state the lives they want to live and build and constantly put off making it happen. The solution is the same in both cases: stop talking about it it, start building it, and put the structures in place that keep you going when things start to get hard.

Selected recent speaking

Progressive Education: Education Past, Present, Future, April 2026 — Closing presentation and evening session with Noah Heaton on building better pathways into the world of work and adulthood for young people, drawing on the POP Hove pilot.

Ashoka Changemaker Summit, Hamburg, 2024 — Moderated the panel "Building Ecosystems of Change from Within: How and Where do we Start?" with Stephanie Brobbey and Nani Jansen-Reventlow.

The rest

I'm a solo parent to two home-educated teens. I'm neurodivergent, gay and from the global majority; all of which inform how I think and show up, both in my personal and work life. I play padel, beach volleyball and line dance for fun. 

Ordinarily, I'm based in Brighton & Hove, on the south coast of England - though September 2026 marked the start of an indefinite wander around East and Southeast Asia with three teens in tow (my two, plus a bonus teen), working from my laptop as we go. Back to my location independent days for a while...

Get in touch

Building something of your own? Start with Website in 1 Day, Build Different or Lock In.

Interim, advisory, speaking or media enquiries: lea@leajovy.com