About me
I’m Natalie Gordon: an author, a coach and, for more than twenty years, a business transformation consultant.
In that earlier career I worked across the world with organisations including Walgreens, Shell, Tesco, Severn Trent Water and Lakeland, and I was Chief of Staff for a boutique management consultancy. I did it while raising a family, studying for an MA in Creative Writing and writing my first few novels. I know how easy it is for your own creative ambitions to slip down the list.
Writing and coaching writers
I’ve been writing seriously since 2014, when I studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, and I’ve written six novels since: two self-published children’s books and four, as-yet unpublished, adult novels. I have been longlisted in the Mslexia Adult Novel Competition and the Times/Chicken House Children’s Competition, and shortlisted in The Libraro Prize 2026. My shortlisted novel, Yours, Everlasting, a wartime love story inspired by bundles of inherited WW2 love letters, has been featured in The Telegraph and Take A Break. It’s now on submission with agents and publishers.
I’ve had my share of full manuscript requests, near misses, encouraging rejections and silence. Every one of them has taught me something about staying creative for the long haul.
I’m a Level 7 qualified executive coach, accredited with the EMCC. Coaching business leaders showed me how powerfully the stories we tell ourselves can hold us back, and writers face the same thing: the inner critic, the rejections and the need to reframe the stories we tell ourselves. I now coach writers to keep creating through it and to rediscover the joy of writing. I also continue to coach business leaders through my executive coaching practice.
When I'm not working or writing, I love to spend time in the Cumbrian hills and my Instagram posts often feature views like the ones on this page. It's also where a lot of my writing ideas come to me.
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