“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller
– Helen Keller
Over more than 20 years, my work has encompassed senior executive and leadership roles in export trade and international relations, climate change, tourism, education, and skilled migration, across the public and private sectors.
My eclectic and vibrant career has taken me to 37 countries around the world. I’ve been down and out in Paris and London; I’ve trekked through the hill tribe villages in the Golden Triangle; I’ve climbed the highest mountain in Southeast Asia, and I’ve road-tripped from the Grand Canyon to Graceland.
Along the way, I’ve addressed Ambassadors and government ministers, participated in international policy development meetings, led the development of complex government policy and strategy to tackle wicked problems, prepared global market expansion plans for exporters, and worked with business and industry on strategy. People I have coached and mentored have gone on to achieve great things in their careers and lives.
Through my Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Business Administration as well as my Master of Science in Coaching Psychology, I developed a deep interest in behavioural economics, organisational behaviour, habit formation, strategy development, and decision-making. My passion for lifelong learning continues with my current research into how the work environment influences people’s experiences of the impostor phenomenon.
The diversity of my experience helps me to blend the theoretical with the practical, to connect with all kinds of people through shared understanding, and to work hard in the pursuit of excellence. I’m driven by the desire to learn and grow, and to share those learnings with others to help them on their own path.
I live in Tasmania with my husband and teenage daughter, who mostly wish I would stop sharing my learnings with them, and my Rhodesian Ridgeback who is reliably my #1 fan.