The thing no one tells you about high performance.
In 2021 I wrote about a health event at my desk. My first thought wasn’t my family. It was a meeting with my manager. That post reached more than seven million people, and it changed the questions I ask for a living.
For most of my career I was the person the whole thing leaned on when the stakes were high. For a long time that felt like value. It took a genuine wake-up call to see what it was quietly costing, and to notice how many senior people are running on exactly the same fumes without naming it.
I still believe in doing serious, difficult work well. Complex change, real accountability, high standards. What I no longer believe is that you have to hollow yourself out to deliver it. The delivery and the human being are not in competition. Treating them as if they are is the mistake almost every organisation makes, and it’s the most expensive one.
So that’s what I do now, from every angle I can. I advise leaders and boards on making change land without breaking their people. I speak, honestly, about what burnout actually costs. And through the Life 2.0 podcast and a small library of tools, I help people navigate the point where the questions change, from “how do I get the next promotion” to “what am I actually building, and did I choose it?”
Change that lands
Two decades turning stalled, high-stakes programmes into governed, working outcomes, without pretending the human cost isn’t real.
Honest in the room
The talk I’m asked for most isn’t a resilience framework. It’s the heart attack, what it forced me to confront, and what changed after.
A second act, out loud
Writing and building from inside my own reinvention, not from a finished, polished distance. The messy middle, on the record.
The rest of this page is just the practical ways that turns into something useful to you. The proof I can do it, and the ways we can work together. Start with what I do.
