About Speaker

Born in 1957, on a farm in Kent, UK. The year the space age started, the treaty of Rome, electric watches and the laser. Childhood trauma of 14 school changes, my parents divorced when I was 4, had the upside of seeing many types of education, and to realise that I caught on quickly. Never conforming, I completed a dual honours French and Economics at Sheffield and Lyon. To win a bet as best paid graduate, I joined Shell, got stuck in the UK and left. A move to Belgium in 1989, because I spoke French, led to learning Dutch, but despite being the youngest CEO of the Finnish group, and working in France, Sweden, Quebec, Holland and Germany, I left employed work frustrated with Employers.

From 1995 to my retirement in 2024, I was a self employed interim manager, ‘crisis manager’ as my kids prefer. Working in Utilities, Construction, Industrial Coatings, Distribution, and others, with an average contract of 12 months. In 2003 I won the Interim Manager of the year award for a 5 way merger that created Scarlet Telecom, today Belgiums 4th largest. So much for time lines, the interesting part is my unusual approach to crisis. Using Snowden’s Cynefin as language, I was able to start to explain what I knew. Complex human systems and Bateson’s living complexity added to the language. Helen Russ’s PhD on collective spirit, had her asking me if I was consciously communicating with the Lexion? This enabled me to better tune into the energy or spirt of a group, see it and find out how it could move. This involves 5th and 6th dimensional consciousness. Organic systems only move along resonant pathways - my gift is to sift possible futures, help rewrite identity stories and get stuff done.