I’ve come to understand performance and success as congruence, but I didn’t always think this way. For a long time I thought they were about pushing myself beyond healthy limits. I started an ad agency in my 20s that I built up and sold before leaving Australia with my young family to live and work overseas. First as the creative chief for Saatchi & Saatchi across Asia, then as the global creative supremo for JWT based in London.
After 10 years of living abroad, we returned to Australia - it was time to reflect and regroup, rebuild relationships, and start something new. I had a couple of failed ventures (rich and painful learning experiences) before co-founding Sendle.
At the same time, in an effort to find a path to sustainable performance, I started exploring and deepening my meditation practice, and training in emotional intelligence, mindfulness and neuroscience. Besides investing and advising, I now teach a program to startup founders and their teams to help them ride their own roller-coasters with more wisdom and composure than I did.