I've been reading people my whole life.

I never saw a clear path to my ambitions early on. I had to work out what I was good at — trial and error, where I fitted, and how to make people see it. That taught me something early: potential means very little unless someone is willing to recognise it.

Maybe that is why I have always been drawn to people who are overlooked.

Over the years, I have met extraordinary people whose capability sat far above their visibility. Talented people passed over for promotion. Candidates dismissed on paper who went on to transform businesses. Founders underestimated by bigger, louder competitors.

I qualified as an accountant first. Business made sense to me — numbers, decisions, risk, growth. But what interested me most was never just the numbers. It was the people behind them. When I moved into hiring after something clicked, my strength was recognising patterns in people, business and industry.

For more than 25 years, I have worked with global organisations, ambitious start-ups and founder-led businesses at every level. I have built and exited businesses. I have interviewed thousands of people and watched industries change around them. The more I saw, the more convinced I became that hiring was never about resumes. It was about judgement and timing. It was about recognising capability before everybody else did.

Today, my work sits at the intersection of people, business and change.

I think about how AI, technology and economic shifts are reshaping the way companies compete for talent. Why good people get missed. Why some businesses keep hiring well while others keep getting it wrong. And what separates the companies that build real capability from those that keep making the same expensive mistakes.

I believe judgement is becoming the real currency in business — not just for the people being hired, but for the companies doing the hiring. The businesses that thrive won't always be the ones with the biggest budgets or the most tools. They'll be the ones who make better calls, faster, about the people who'll take them forward.

I live in Sydney. Have a zest for travel, love Formula One, Rugby Union, diving and open-water swimming and working on my terrible golf swing. I held a world record as one of the largest group of people dressed as mummies in one place. Not the achievement I am best known for, but still one of the funniest.

For real down time, you'll probably find me with family, a great movie, coffee, box of Maltesers and a tub of ice-cream. Some things just don't need improving.