About me
A career in business led me to a different set of questions.
After more than two decades across technology, telecom, digital businesses and AI, I’m now spending more time studying wellbeing, positive psychology, human behaviour and coaching — and asking a harder question: how do we build a good life when work, money, family, health, ambition and uncertainty all compete for the same time and energy?
01 · The first chapter
More than 20 years in business.
My working life was shaped by targets, teams, growth, competition and responsibility. I learned a great deal from it and remain grateful for those years. But I also saw how easily achievement can become the default scorecard for a life.
Leadership taught me about people, choices, pressure, incentives and resilience. It also taught me that most people cannot simply step away from responsibility. Careers, mortgages, children, ageing parents, relationships and expectations are real. The more interesting question is what we can still protect, influence or redesign within those realities.
02 · The questions changed
What is enough? What do we protect when everything matters? Where do we still have a choice?
Those questions now shape my reading, writing, mentoring and coaching.
03 · What I believe
A good life is a portfolio, not a single score.
Reality before ideals
A useful conversation starts with the life someone actually has — responsibilities, limits, other people and uncertainty — not with an idealised version of how life should look.
Protect the whole life
Work, financial security, health, relationships, time and meaning all matter. Perfect balance is unrealistic; allowing one area to consume the others indefinitely can be costly.
Agency over perfection
We cannot control everything. But it is often useful to separate what cannot change now, what can be influenced gradually and what can be changed next.
04 · Today
Learning, writing, mentoring and coaching.
I work one-to-one through non-clinical wellbeing coaching and mentoring, while continuing formal learning in positive psychology and coaching. I write to clarify what I’m learning and connect research with ordinary life and work.
I’m especially interested in adults and students navigating work, purpose, relationships and life choices — particularly when several important parts of life are pulling in different directions.
Across those stages, the questions are often surprisingly similar: What matters? What is enough? What can I change? And what kind of life am I trying to build?