Lydia is a highly experienced operations and leadership professional in the humanitarian, charity and non-profit sectors.  With a career spanning multiple countries and roles—including team leader, program manager, and advisor—she has successfully led diverse operations, projects, teams, and portfolios, including working with Save the Children for more than eight years. Through this work she developed a love for the development and flourishing of others, and is now a trained coach and mentor as well as a training facilitator and leadership consultant.​

She is an accredited coach at the Senior Practitioner level with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). She has worked as a visiting faculty member for the Centre of Humanitarian Leadership at Deakin University and has been a regular training facilitator in a variety of development and leadership programmes. She has also supported numerous coaching and mentoring programmes for organisations, providing management support, training, skills development, as well as evaluation and programme improvement. She also runs a global network for Women in the Humanitarian and Development sectors.​

She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching for Leadership as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Humanitarian Leadership, a MA in Development and Education and a BSc in Psychology.​