BREATHE
RECOGNISE
This work tends to find people at a specific moment
You've built capacity — performance, leadership, resilience — and you can sense a gap between what you know and how you actually operate under pressure.
The recovery protocols work, until they don't. The clarity is there, until it fragments at the wrong moment. The regulation holds, until the stakes get real.
These are signals. They mean relief has reached its useful limit and something more structural is ready to develop.
What "more structural" actually means →
THE WORK
What changes when your nervous system is trained
The meeting that used to leave you wired for three hours — you recover in twenty minutes. Not because you're suppressing it. Because your system has a faster return to baseline.
The 3am inventory stops running. Not because you've solved every problem on the list. Because your autonomic state isn't manufacturing urgency where there isn't any.
You start noticing the gap between stimulus and response — and it's wide enough to choose.
Decision quality changes. Not more analysis. Less noise between the signal and the action. The data was always there. Your system was too activated to let you read it clearly.
The people around you feel it before you can name it. Something shifts in how you hold a room when your nervous system isn't scanning for threat while you're trying to lead.
This isn't calm as a personality trait. It's regulation as a trainable skill — with a measurable physiological signature you can track week to week.
PATHWAYS
Ways to work together
Resilience Training
Evidence-based resilience practices designed to shift your state and teach your system something new.
Start with a breathing assessment →
Leadership Recalibration - The Camino Intensive
One hundred kilometres on foot. Seven days without the noise. The leadership work that can only happen when you strip everything else away. This is the deepest work I offer — built from nine pilgrimages and twenty years watching what happens when high-performers finally stop performing.
Two formats: walk alone with daily remote guidance, or walk with me for the full week.
Limited to 12 self-guided and 4 in-person walks per year.
ABOUT
I teach regulation because I needed to learn it from the ground up
I spent twenty years leading teams across four continents — corporate environments where the pressure was real and the stakes were someone else's livelihood. I've worked in war zones. I've operated in 55 countries. I've sat across the table from people making decisions that would reshape regions.
And I lost my hearing. Twice. The second time, something deeper broke. My nervous system shut down — not dramatically, but completely. The numbness lasted years. I couldn't feel my own life while it was happening.
The path back was physical before it was psychological. Breath first. Then walking — nine Caminos, thousands of kilometres, the body slowly remembering what the mind had forgotten how to access.
What I learned through that process — about how the nervous system collapses under sustained load, and how it rebuilds through specific, deliberate, physical practice — is what I now teach. Not from theory. From the inside.
ICF Professional Certified Coach. Advanced respiratory physiology training. HeartMath facilitator. The credentials matter. Here's the research →
But the reason people stay is because I've been where the system breaks.
And I know the way back.
RESILIENCE
Something brought you here.
Start with your resilience profile.
A short assessment that shows you how your system tends to respond under pressure — and where your current strategies may be reaching their limit.