The Person Behind the Work
I did not choose this work. It chose me. Thirty years of watching how people break and how they heal. Fifteen years of sitting with people in the most honest and most painful moments of their lives. And a lifetime of being the person in the room who asks the questions nobody else is asking.
My Journey
Where This Work Comes From
I grew up understanding, before I had the language for it, that what people say and what they mean are often very different things. That the space between the two is where most of the real work happens. That the most important conversations are usually the ones that are not happening.
My professional life has been built around that understanding. In local government, in coaching rooms, in broadcasting studios, on stages in Dubai, Accra, and London, I have spent thirty years translating complex human behaviour into something people can actually use. Not as theory. As practice. As change.
The Glass Framework™, my original methodology for understanding and restoring human wholeness, grew from that work. It is the most honest distillation I have of what I have learned about why people are the way they are and what it takes for them to become something different.
MY CREDENTIALS
Experience That Speaks for Itself
TEDx alumna. Bestselling author of five books. Over fifteen years of professional experience in human development and public sector leadership. Fifteen years of coaching practice. International speaker. Broadcaster with a social media following built over thirteen years of live broadcasting. AI and communication specialist. Founder of Golden Touch Coaching and Consultancy.
Dilys holds a Diploma in Transformational Coaching, accredited by the International Coaching Federation and the EMCC, and brings to her practice something that no qualification alone can confer: a natural gift for human insight that produces shifts in people that years of therapy and counselling had not been able to reach. Clients have come to Dilys from across continents, from the United Kingdom to North America, Europe, Australia, and across Africa, many of them arriving after working with therapists and counsellors and finding in this work something they had not found elsewhere. Her forthcoming book, They Taught Us to Be Quiet. Then They Gave Us AI: Culture, Communication and the Liberation of the African Voice, due for publication in March 2027, represents the most significant intellectual contribution of her career to date.
MY APPROACH
What Working With Me Actually Looks Like
I do not deal in comfortable answers. I deal in honest ones. My work is warm, it is rigorous, and it goes to the root of things rather than staying at the surface. I believe the most respectful thing you can do for another human being is to take their situation seriously enough to tell them the truth.
I also believe that everyone who sits with me is capable of more than they currently know. The glass can always be restored. That is not optimism. It is thirty years of evidence.
BOOKS
My Published Books
Predator or Prince: How to Find the Man of Your Dreams Not Your Nightmares. Not This Widow: A Journey of Grief: Love, Loss, Strength and Survival. 365 Ways to Tell You You're Special. Five ebooks on healing, forgiveness, relationships, and faith. And a forthcoming book that may be the most important thing I have ever written.
Predator or Prince
Predator or Prince: How to Find the Man of Your Dreams Not Your Nightmares. A guide to recognising the patterns and behaviours that signal whether the person in front of you is building you up or breaking you down. For anyone who has ever confused intensity with love.
Not This Widow
Not This Widow: A Journey of Grief: Love, Loss, Strength and Survival. A deeply personal account of grief, loss, and the journey back to yourself after bereavement. For anyone who has ever been told to be strong when what they needed was to be held. Available in print and digital formats.
365 Ways to Tell You You're Special
A daily affirmation book for the person in your life who needs to be reminded of their worth. One page. One truth. Every day of the year