Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Build a Personal Operating System that reveals and delivers the next phase of your journey
• I help mid-career professionals and executives reduce stress, reclaim clarity, and shape careers that reflect their impact – without burning everything down.
• Worked with 100s of professionals navigating burnout, misalignment, and career transition
• Blend 20+ years of professional experience with contemplative practice
• Focus on clarity, decision-making, and sustainable change – not hustle or reinvention
• Guided professionals to free up time, reduce mental load, and reconnect with meaningful work

Oct 2018 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

• Brought clarity and structure to a high-stakes regulatory initiative operating under political pressure, time constraints, and organisational complexity.
• The work went beyond delivery. It required aligning senior stakeholders, navigating competing agendas, and creating calm visibility inside a fast-moving, high-risk environment.
• Led a complex, multi-stakeholder programme spanning business, technology, and regulatory functions
• Reframed the business case and evaluated alternative solutions to create shared direction
• Balanced urgent regulatory demands with long-term technology strategy
• Introduced clear structure, decision pathways, and progress visibility across teams
• Held firm on discipline and delivery integrity, including challenging senior stakeholders when needed
• Delivered a compliant sanctions management capability, protecting the bank from regulatory penalties
• This experience shaped my understanding of how pressure, ambiguity, and misalignment affect decision-making – and why clarity is the real leverage.

Mar 2010 – Oct 2018 · 8 yrs 7 mos

• Worked across global Tier-1 banks on high-risk regulatory, sanctions, and transformation programmes.
• This work consistently involved operating under scrutiny, ambiguity, and pressure – while creating clarity, discipline, and delivery integrity.
• Led and supported regulatory initiatives across institutions including HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, and others
• Navigated complex political, legal, and delivery environments
• Balanced regulatory urgency with sustainable technology and operating models
• Created visibility, decision discipline, and stakeholder alignment at senior levels
• Protected organisations from regulatory exposure while maintaining delivery integrity
• Across these environments, the pattern was consistent:
• Capable people struggle not from lack of skill, but from misaligned systems and relentless pressure.
• This decade of work shaped how I now help professionals find clarity without burning out or starting over.

Jul 2000 – Mar 2010 · 9 yrs 8 mos

• Spent a decade embedded inside organisations of very different shapes and scales – from heavily regulated institutions to fast-growing startups.
• My formal role was Business Analysis.
• The real work was making sense of complexity and helping people act clearly inside it.
• Worked within regulated environments including the FCA and Aviva, where precision, accountability, and scrutiny were high
• Cut my teeth in a maturing e-commerce startup, experiencing speed, ambiguity, and resource constraint firsthand
• Operated at the intersection of business, technology, and change across both large and small systems
• Saw how misalignment shows up differently – but just as powerfully – in corporations and startups
• Developed a grounded understanding of how clarity, incentives, and pressure shape behaviour at work
• This period gave me range.
• It taught me how capable professionals struggle in any system when clarity is missing – and what helps restore it.

Aug 1995 – Oct 1997 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• This period was not a retreat from life, but a deliberate training in clarity, discipline, and attention.
• I lived as a monk following a structured contemplative path – daily meditation, silence, study, and service – designed to examine the roots of stress, identity, and meaning.
• Trained in sustained meditation and self-inquiry
• Lived within strict structure, simplicity, and discipline
• Learned how clarity is cultivated through practice – not insight alone
• Experienced firsthand how the mind creates pressure, urgency, and misalignment
• Developed a calm, grounded relationship with uncertainty and change
• This training fundamentally changed how I relate to work, ambition, and identity.
• It also gave me something rare in modern professional life:
• the ability to sit with complexity without reacting, forcing, or escaping.
• That capacity underpins everything I’ve done since – from high-pressure regulatory work to helping professionals realign their careers without burning everything down.