I left Aotearoa New Zealand in 2000 with the bare minimum of luggage and a snowboard bag, to take up the dream job in Austria. Which morphed into the nightmare job in Switzerland. Which transformed into over two decades in Germany across education, music, sport, media, digital, automotive, communications, and design.

I didn't return home until 2024, having worked for companies such as Eurosport, the top digital agencies within Publicis and WPP, and the last seven years as Managing Partner of the German operations of VIM Group, Europe's leading brand transformation specialists.

Along the way my clients included various German multinationals, and I became fluent in the language, the culture, and the particular loneliness of operating at the highest levels of a German corporation.

I've built things. I've stopped things. I've learnt things. I've lost things. I've unmade versions of myself that weren't working and rebuilt from what remained.

After arriving back here, I co-founded Naked & Curious Ltd, an independent creative and strategic venture studio.

I've still got that snowboard bag. I'm also a photographer, a mountain biker, a skater, and a surfer. I mention these pursuits not as colour, but because they're my version of meditation, and have been informing the way I see, learn, feel, and navigate anything hard or unfamiliar... for more than half my life.

I'm not a therapist. I'm not a coach. I'm not a management consultant.

I'm simply someone who has lived a large life, done the work of recognising and understanding their own patterns, and who has the cultural fluency and genuine empathy to help others do the same.

adidas
Allianz
Audi
BMW
Bosch
CLAAS
DHL

Engel & Völkers
GEA
Henkel
Lidl
Liebherr
Merck
Miele

MunichRe
Porsche
ProSiebenSat.1
Siemens
Telekom
Volkswagen
ZEISS