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I am over half a century in the making and still a work in progress, but finding adventure in all of it. Early on in my career, I sketched myself a mission which still very much holds through today:

I’m committed to channelling my energy and enthusiasm towards motivating others making a difference.

I believe that life is too short to spend it doing work that you don’t like or better still love, and I believe that high performance can and should be fun. People, places, and cultures inspire me and I hope to never stop learning.

Having started living in the UK, travelling widely and lived in a few countries to date including Germany, Poland, France, Singapore and The Netherlands my current home, and picked up a handful of languages, I see myself as a global citizen.

I often call myself a left-brain marketeer right-brain engineer, having started life in the technical subjects. Maths was my favourite, and my first work experience was as a tunnel engineer, yet I moved across different roles in consumer manufacturing companies, finding greater ability in the commercial side, and having led as a general manager for the last 20 years.

An outgoing individual I was happy to take initiative and lead, and never shy in performing, I found the more I loved storytelling and public speaking the better I became at it. It’s now core in the way that I lead today.

Having been a technical person I thought (wrongly) that I wasn’t very creative and only in recent years have I found a capability and great joy in seeking inspiration in the small things, writing kids story books, and poems, alongside leadership non-fiction. I was simply willing to put myself out there to change things in the realm of diversity, something I believe in, which is how I started doing more in public and gained media experience in the process.

My work today goes full circle. As a leader I enjoy solving problems and motivating people with big picture visions and communication that connects. That experience gives me stories to write about as an author, which in turn gives me content to speak on to drive inspiration a different way. Without trying, I seem to have built a portfolio career, and all of the elements give me great pleasure, and fulfilment.

Not needing to choose, I currently love working as a leader, a speaker and an author, so long as I can add value in the situation in question.

Work is not everything of course, and in addition to sleep ( it is so under-rated) I keep my balance being active, with sport and spending time as a mum and wife, all of which matter in being a fully functioning person. There is learning, inspiration and happiness in all of it.