Portfolio
PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO
Professional Vibe
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Professional Experience
Leadership development focus and experience for 20+ years in international setting.
Sharp eye for both the big picture and small details through 25+ years of project management.
Flair for fact-based storytelling, data, processes and technology from working with change management in various functions for 20+ years.
Global trainer and coach with international perspective from living and working in Auckland, London, Copenhagen, Taipei and Shanghai.
Professional Education
Master of Science in Organisational Psychology from the University of Liverpool
Master of Arts in Leadership & Change from Exeter University
Bachelor of Business majoring in Management and Information Technology
Transactional Communication (NCV)
Transformational Coaching (5-Step Process)
Train the Trainer
Professional Vision
Leaders impact individual and collective health. Healthy leadership increases our ability to be the best version of ourselves, to have strong relationships with others, and to be a positive force in our environment. Be inspired about how to improve leadership.
CREATIVE PORTFOLIO
Creative Vibe
“To take things easy, not to fight against the ebb and flow of life, but to give way to it—that was what was needed. It was this tension that was all wrong. To live—to live! And the perfect morning, so fresh and fair, basking in the light, as though laughing at its own beauty, seemed to whisper, ‘Why not?'”
– Katherine Mansfield, At the Bay
Creative Experience
Author of a children’s book (due to publish later in 2025)
Taking Risks, published in Spirit of Youth (edited by Tessa Duder)
Sailing With Spirit, published in Down to the Sea Again (edited by Tessa Duder)
Oh! The Places You’ll Go (Parent’s Version), published by The Spinoff
Final short-list for NZ Sunday Star Short Story Competition (2023)
Short-listed in flash fiction and essay competitions (2021-2022)
Creative Education
Creative Writing with New Zealand Writers College
Creative Writing with Creative Ink
Pathway to Publishing with Creative Ink
Creative Vision
To honour the imagination and hope which my children have brought into their world. And to indulge my own childhood spirit guide (the bookworm).