About me
Musician, wellbeing specialist, coach, founder, spectacular unraveler, still figuring it out
My story
My path to this work wasn't linear. I started as a musician, spent years struggling with my own wellbeing, and found myself drawn to understanding what actually helps people thrive.
That curiosity led me from personal training to coaching to working with stressed executives, to workplace wellbeing consulting, to eventually co-founding Unmind, a mental health platform that has reached millions of people globally.
The irony wasn't lost on me: I was helping others with their mental health while privately and slowly running my own system into the ground. That contradiction caught up with me in what you might call a spectacular breakdown.
What I learned is that we're all carrying the weight of our lives in different ways, often shaped by factors beyond our control. There's no cookie-cutter approach to thriving, but it does require paying attention to what our bodies and our souls are asking of us and questioning the inherited patterns we're unconsciously living out.
This journey taught me the difference between knowing about human flourishing and living it. It also showed me how inherited patterns, ways of thinking about work that date back to the industrial age, shape our modern workplaces in ways we rarely examine.
Now I work with leaders and organisations who recognise they're caught in similar patterns. People who want to succeed without sacrificing their humanity. Teams that want to create cultures where people can bring their whole selves to work.
Professional background
For more than 15 years, I've worked at the intersection of leadership, culture, and wellbeing with purpose-driven people and progressive companies who sense something fundamental needs to shift.
I bring an unusual combination: creative and performance background, scaling experience, deep exploration of human potential, formal coaching and facilitation training, and lived knowledge of what happens when theory meets reality.
My approach is rooted in recognising how inherited patterns from the industrial age still drive modern workplaces, usually below conscious awareness. I'm particularly drawn to the gap between what we know about human flourishing and the systems we've created that often work against it.
I don't claim to have all the answers, but I've developed a capacity for helping leaders see the patterns that are shaping them and their organisations - often in ways they haven't noticed before. The real work happens when people begin to interrupt what's been unconscious.
Other things
I’ve written over 300 songs. Here are some of them.
I sang for a Saudi prince in the Seychelles (and met my wife there).
I stuttered as a child.
I had insomnia for 10 years. Thankfully, not anymore.
I love dogs (a lot).
I once won The Weakest Link.