The career came first. My health didn’t.
I had built businesses, won work, negotiated deals, raised a family and generally become very good at making difficult things happen.
Yet my own health was the area where knowing better never quite translated into doing better.
Ahead of major surgery, I was told to lose weight, build strength and get physically ready. It finally made me treat my own health with the same seriousness I had always given work.
I trained properly, changed my body composition, became stronger and discovered something that now sits at the centre of my coaching: capable people rarely need more information.
They need a system that works when life gets busy, messy and inconvenient.
OUTSIDE THE WORK BIT. What makes me tick
I believe reinvention is allowed.
At 47, I moved from Scotland to Abu Dhabi with my family.
This has prompted the occasional accusation of a mid-life crisis; I prefer to think of it as refusing to stop making ambitious decisions just because life is already established.
Outside work, I am usually training under a barbell, on a reformer, wakesurfing in the Gulf, attempting to make golf look respectable, or finding a perfectly rational business case for another pair of shoes.
Movement is where I think best, which is why I am permanently trying to turn seated meetings into walking ones.
Better conversation, better energy and considerably less beige conference-room coffee.
Proven results that speak for themselves.
