BEHIND THE PERFORMANCE
I’ve spent my life fascinated by what makes people perform — and what gets in their way.
From investment banking and building businesses to coaching leaders and training people around the world, my career has taken a few unexpected turns.
FROM BIOLOGY TO BANKING
I didn’t exactly follow a conventional career path.
I studied Pure and Applied Biology at Oxford — until I got tired of sexing fruit flies.
From there, somehow, I ended up in investment banking, eventually becoming Head of European Structured Derivatives at JPMorgan Chase.
By the traditional measures, I was doing well.
But I was becoming increasingly fascinated by a different question:
Why do some highly capable people thrive — while others, with just as much talent, get in their own way?
WHEN SUCCESS WASN’T ENOUGH
On paper, I had everything I was supposed to want.
A senior role. Good money. Status. A career I’d worked hard to build.
But I wasn’t happy.
Eventually, I walked away from banking and started building businesses of my own. Some succeeded. Some didn’t.
And along the way, I became far more interested in the psychology of performance than I ever had been in markets or spreadsheets.
That journey eventually took me into personal development — and into training people around the world.
FROM STUDENT TO TEACHER
I didn’t just want to understand performance. I wanted to know how to change it.
That curiosity took me deep into personal development, psychology and human behaviour.
I trained extensively, studied different approaches and eventually became the first Senior Trainer for Tony Robbins in Great Britain.
I spent years training people around the world — working with individuals, teams and rooms full of people from very different backgrounds.
And I learned something important:
The biggest barriers to performance are rarely a lack of talent or potential.
They’re usually the things people can’t see clearly themselves.
THE WORK I DO NOW
Today, I help high performers find the hidden bottlenecks getting in their way.
I work with founders, senior leaders and leadership teams who are already capable, ambitious and successful.
They rarely need more information.
What they often need is someone who can see what they can’t.
The decision they keep avoiding. The team that isn’t truly aligned. The role they’ve outgrown. The pattern that keeps creating friction. The business that still depends too heavily on them.
My job is to help make those things visible — and then do something about them.
Because the next level of performance rarely comes from doing more. It comes from removing what’s getting in the way.
HOW I WORK
I don’t believe people need fixing. I believe they need clarity.
Most of the people I work with already know a great deal.
They’ve read the books. Built the business. Led the team. Achieved things other people aspire to.
The problem is that it’s difficult to see clearly when you’re inside the system.
That’s where I come in.
I use simple, practical frameworks to help people see what’s really happening — in themselves, their teams and their businesses.
Then we focus on the changes that will make the biggest difference.
Less theory. More clarity. Better decisions. Real change.
WHAT I BELIEVE
Talent is rarely the problem.
I believe most people and businesses have far more potential than they’re currently using.
But potential gets trapped.
By unclear priorities. Avoided decisions. Misaligned teams. Old identities. Founder dependency. Patterns that once helped but now hold things back.
The answer isn’t always to add something new.
Often, the biggest breakthroughs come from identifying and removing the bottleneck that’s already there.
Find what’s getting in the way. Remove it. See what becomes possible.
WORKING WITH ME
Different challenges need different conversations.
I work with founders and senior leaders one-to-one, with leadership teams, and with organisations through coaching, speaking and workshops.
Sometimes the challenge is personal.
Sometimes it sits within the team.
Sometimes the business itself has become the bottleneck.
The starting point is understanding where the real friction is.
Individual. Team. Business.
That’s why I’ve created four simple diagnostics to help identify what’s working — and what may be getting in the way.
FIND YOUR STARTING POINT
Choose how deep you want to go.
START WITH YOU
High Performance Diagnostic
Take this quick diagnostic to uncover the hidden bottlenecks affecting your performance.
Individual
Performance
Diagnostic
For founders and team members who want to improve their own performance, decision-making and effectiveness.
GO DEEPER
Team
Performance
Diagnostic
Is your leadership team the constraint? Assess key areas: alignment, capability, communication and accountability.
Business
Performance
Diagnostic
Is your business creating friction? Identify the hidden structural and operational bottlenecks limiting its performance and growth.
READY TO FIND WHAT’S GETTING IN THE WAY?
Sometimes the biggest shift starts with seeing the problem differently.
If you’re a founder or senior leader and something isn’t working as well as it should, let’s have a conversation.
No pitch. No pressure.
Just a chance to look at what’s happening, where the friction might be, and what could change.