About me
A little more about me
I’m curious by nature and happiest when I’m learning something, making something, solving a problem or contributing to something useful. That applies to work, but it also describes quite a lot of how I approach life outside it.
I value honesty, humour, independence and trust. I like people who can challenge an idea without making it personal, environments where people are trusted to get on with things, and work that leaves something better than it found it.
Curiosity is a fairly constant theme
I like understanding how things work.
That can mean learning a new piece of software, pulling apart a problem, trying to understand a different industry, improving something around the house, learning Swedish or working out how to build something with my hands.
I’m probably happiest when there is something to figure out.
Woodworking has become one of the more tangible versions of that. I like the combination of thinking, making, solving small problems and eventually having something real at the end of it.
That instinct carries into a lot of other parts of my life too: learn enough to understand the problem, have a go, improve it and keep moving.
Building a life between two countries
I’m Australian and now live in Sweden.
Moving countries has meant getting used to a new language, different systems, different ways of doing things and the occasional discovery that something I assumed was completely normal is apparently just Australian.
I still feel strongly connected to Australia while building a life here in Sweden, and I like that combination.
It has also reinforced something I already knew about myself: I enjoy learning, adapting and being somewhere that makes me look at familiar things differently.
Away from work
Dingo and me in a Swedish forest.
Sport has always been part of my life. These days I mainly enjoy playing tennis and golf, although I’ll watch considerably more sport than those two alone and support Sweden and Australia whenever there is a chance!
I like being outside, particularly hiking and exploring, with my sambo and our Sheltie (Shetland Sheepdog) - Dingo.
I also enjoy making things, fixing things and projects where there is something physical to show at the end - which is probably why woodworking has stuck.
Whether it is renovating furniture, building dice trays for board games or fixing things around the home, I will use any excuse to go to the hardware store and browse timber for the next job.
What matters to me
- Honesty
- Humour
- Independence
- Trust
- Useful work
I value people who are straightforward with each other, who can have a laugh, who are trusted to think for themselves and who care about what they are contributing to.
I’m particularly drawn to things with some kind of positive human, environmental or social value. That does not mean every project needs a grand mission. I just prefer spending my time helping create, improve or support something that feels useful.
How that shows up in my work
Professionally, I’ve ended up working across quite a few disciplines: sales, leadership, go-to-market, marketing, customer management, commercial systems and advisory work.
The common thread is probably the same curiosity that exists outside work.
I like getting close enough to a problem to understand what is really happening, immerse myself in it, challenge assumptions where necessary and then help turn the thinking into something practical.
I tend to see the connections between things rather than treating every function as separate. It is rarely one thing that creates a problem or opportunity, so I prefer to look at the bigger picture. When you work with me, we discuss things openly and honestly because we value each others' time and opinions. So let's build something great together.
“I want a life where the work is interesting, the people are good, there is room for humour, and what I’m spending my time on feels useful.”
That is probably as good a summary of what I’m looking for as anything else on this website.