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About Me.
Never stop exploring.
I struck out on a less traditional path early in my career and have always valued my independence and 'mastery of my own destiny' - I find the road less travelled to be the most interesting! My 30+ year professional journey has been defined by an entrepreneurial drive, a consultative approach to relationship building and a desire to explore new ideas, places, cultures and experiences. While living and working in Asia for over 16 years I have navigated dynamic Western and Asian business environments, learning to balance risk, innovation, efficiency, and flexibility.
The buck stops here.
As a 3-time business founder I have built and led profitable regional consulting businesses, managing business development, brand and reputation, legal, compliance, risk and sustainability as well as building culture and developing people. After the first year these businesses all returned annual double digit profit on net revenue and despite market volatility never made a tax loss or retrenched employees. Through this experience I have developed an empowering and consultative leadership style – I hire people with complementary strengths and trust them to get on with job.
Use a different lens.
I have decades of business consulting experience for Fortune 500 and multinational Clients in banking and financial services, pharmaceutical, technology and diversified operations. My experience with a range of business and strategic planning models and ability to probe deeper into business problems, respectfully challenge assumptions and consider new perspectives and alternative options helps my clients make better decisions that respond and adapt to an uncertain, complex and often ambiguous competitive environment.
Be open to change.
I am senior accredited director with the Singapore Institute of Directors with current and past experience as an executive director of private company boards and independent director of charitable foundations and professional association boards in Australia, Singapore, UK and US. As a director I emphasise collaboration, critical and reflective thinking, evidence-based decision-making, and adaptive strategies that enable flex and change. Remaining open and adaptable while being accountable for tough decisions is a core leadership capability I strive to demonstrate daily.
See for yourself.
I’ve had the amazing experience of journeying overland through some pretty remote parts of the world during the past twenty years, places that are environmentally and often socially or culturally fragile and threatened, reinforcing my belief that Environment, Society and Governance (ESG) impacts are an ethical imperative for organisations and their boards, not just a compliance imperative. And while all these experiences were unforgettable and life changing, none had the existential impact of my expeditions into the high Arctic in 2019 and again in 2022.
Walk the talk.
My unwavering commitment building resilience and transforming challenges into opportunities in a way that does not compromise ESG principles for profit drives my entrepreneurial and board choices. I believe it’s important to act in the areas where you can make a difference - even if it seems unremarkable – in your boardroom or backroom, your home, your community, or your industry. In 2024 one of the businesses I founded was awarded B-Corp Certification, signifying it is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency in ESG.
Lead with generosity.
Equally as impactful as the arctic were overland journeys through China, Tibet, Nepal and India in 2004 and the Pamir/Wakhan/Hunza regions in Central Asia in 2012. I saw first hand the impact of institutional denial of mutual respect and integrity, access to opportunity, privacy and accountability in society - human expectations that are disproportionately withheld from women. I became increasingly focussed on supporting women through flexible employment, partnering, mentoring and professional community-building to find rewarding work lives.