I know what it’s like to want more—more purpose, more impact, more meaning—and to sense that something essential is missing, even when life looks successful on paper.

My path here wasn’t linear. At seventeen, I left an unsafe home, worked long hours to put myself through university, and went on to build a global career over the next twenty-five years. I held senior leadership roles at Harvard and Pearson, served twice in the C-suite, and raised three children along the way. I learned how success is built, rewarded, and sustained inside complex systems.

And I also learned what it can cost.

Five years ago, a period of profound exhaustion collided with the sudden loss of my mother. Everything stopped. In the stillness that followed, I was forced to look honestly at how I had been living and working, and at the quiet ways I had been overriding my own energy, needs, and values in the name of achievement.

That reckoning reshaped how I understand success.

I came to see that success isn’t only about what we accomplish. It’s about who we become, how we live, and whether the life we’re building actually fits. It’s not a destination to reach, but a practice we engage with—again and again—over time.

Today, my work is devoted to helping ambitious people reconnect with their energy, clarify what truly matters, and build lives and careers that are vital, grounded, and enduring.