Who I work with
The leaders I work with aren't short on intelligence, ambition, or drive. They're capable, driven, and privately frustrated by the distance between what they and their organisations could be doing and what's actually getting done.
Many of them have a fast, pattern-matching, high-stimulus brain, whether or not they carry a formal ADHD diagnosis. They've adapted well enough to perform, which is exactly why the friction stays invisible to everyone else. What's usually in the way is unclear priorities, decision fatigue, organisational complexity, or leadership patterns that no longer fit the scale they're operating at.
I treat neurodiversity as an operating system worth understanding and building on, not a flaw to manage around. My job is to help you see those patterns clearly enough to change them.
What we work on
Whatever you need to get where you want to go is what we work on. Commonly, this includes:
Clarity under pressure: cutting through noise to the decision that matters most
Execution and momentum: building the habits that turn thinking into output
Leadership transitions: moving from functional expert to strategic executive
Managing energy: recognising the drains that create friction and risk burnout
Fast-brain leadership: leading in a way that fits how your brain actually works
How I work
I don't come with a programme or a prescribed framework to apply to every client. I follow the person, not a script. What I bring is pattern recognition from over two decades inside fast-moving organisations, so I can understand context fast and we can get straight to what actually matters.
Rather than doing the analysis and telling you what I think you should do, I help you figure out what you actually think, what you want, and how you'll go about getting it. I'll draw on my own experience when it's useful, to close a knowledge gap, or challenge an assumption, but you're the expert on yourself, your team, your business, and your customers. My job is to help you access that expertise and intuition, not override it with mine.
Most leaders are good at thinking and much less comfortable slowing down enough to notice the frustration, fear, or desire underneath it. I push for that honesty alongside the analysis and strategy, because it usually points straight at what needs to change.
Where I've come from
I've spent over 20 years across pretty much every part of a technology business: software development and systems administration, partnerships and customer service at Google, product leadership in various startups, and running a cross-functional product team of over 100 people with over $1B in revenue impact at Amazon. That breadth is why I can sit in a room with a CTO, a CMO, and a CFO and speak all three languages.
I got there by trying harder, which worked until it didn't. Two burnouts and, at 47, an ADHD diagnosis that explained a great deal. I stopped, retrained as an executive coach at Henley Business School, and built a way of working that fits how my brain actually operates rather than how I thought it should.
Since then, a decade working with founders and executives across Europe and the US, from fast-growing scaleups to some of the world's largest organisations, doing my own sales and marketing along the way.
What's shaping my thinking
If you're into coaching literature, I love Claire Pedrick's Simplifying Coaching, Marcia Reynolds' Coach The Person, Not The Problem, and Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit and The Advice Trap. I've learnt a lot about high impact coaching from the work of Rich Litvin, Michael Neill, and Steve Hardison, and found Tony Robbins' Awaken The Giant Within unexpectedly insightful.
I've benefitted profoundly from somatic and emotions work, connecting my instincts and drives to my rational thinking rather than treating them as separate. I help my clients do the same, informed by Eugene Gendlin, Eckhardt Tolle, Bessel van der Kolk, Bruce Tift, and more.
Credentials
BSc in Mathematical and Computer Sciences (Adelaide University, South Australia)
Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching (Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK)
Associate Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation)
ADHD Coach Certification (Efficient Coach)
Off the clock
I live in Luxembourg with my wife, three kids, and my mother-in-law: a full house by any measure. We have no pets (yet).
I can order food in French, beer in German, pass tests in Luxembourgish, listen in on my kids in Russian, and I used to be able to flirt in Spanish. Despite this, I am genetically monolingual.
I work out two to three times a week, have been known to do yoga, and love to relax in a 90C (200F) sauna with a skilled Aufgussmeister. In 2019 I rode 320km over three days with TechBikers from Paris to London (yes, we took a ferry), raising over £2,000 for charity, which I'm still proud of.
I cook frequently and make a genuinely excellent chili con carne. My physique still reflects my cooking more than my exercise regime.
Let's meet
Book a 20 minute clarity call so we can get to know each other a little and explore your goals and what's keeping you from them. We'll finish with an invitation to work together, a recommendation to meet someone else, or simply a clearer next step.