Almost as an accident, I used my energetic awareness to listen and connect with many of the executives I worked with. Unbeknownst to me, even at 21, I was “coaching” and advising them. I offered them life and career guidance, and as this was always something I had naturally done, it felt normal to me. The most surprising outcome was my realisation that these were also some of the great influential minds in Australia.

After a few years, I returned to New Zealand to spend time with family and met my beautiful wife. I worked at a consulting firm focusing on business intelligence reporting and data systems, and eventually as a technical consultant where I designed and implemented enterprise solutions and trained the company’s technical teams with the new systems.

This was a great opportunity, as we had contracts with some of the top 100 companies in New Zealand. It gave me the ability to experience different organisational cultures and learn how successful teams and leaders worked across various industries such as telecommunications, government, technology, media, energy, banking, finance, insurance and entertainment.

With a desire to start a family, I decided to switch gears. I traded in my consultancy career to focus on a business that could give me more time at home. As a lifelong lover of tennis, I became a coach – an opportunity to run my own business and start my own performance academy. Five years later, I had ten coaches, three clubs, six high school and primary schools and was operating a coaching business with over 400 clients a week.