The reason I do this
I was the person
in the room who
couldn't slow down.
"I rushed home to my son, desperate to make bedtime. He looked at me and said, 'We don't need you here. Dad always does stories.' I froze, trying to catch my breath, with money in the bank, and realised I wasn't in alignment with my own values."
Twenty years in banking, finance, and government. User experience research with hundreds of participants. A lifetime of meditation that somehow never made it into the workday.
I was not alone in this experience: 65% of working parents report burnout, and the toll it takes rarely stays contained to the office.Gawlik, Melnyk & Tan, Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 2025
When burnout finally took me out, I didn't come back to corporate. I came back for corporate, to be on the other side. To give the person I was what I wish I'd had access to.
I speak the language of KPIs, stakeholders, and packed calendars. And I know exactly how to make stillness feel safe inside that world.