I Knew Better…
Before March 2026, I would have introduced myself differently. Twenty-five years in business intelligence, strategic advisory, and technology consulting. That was the version of me that fit on a business card.
Then I was made redundant. One conversation on a Thursday morning. I was preparing to fly to the US the following Monday to deliver a series of workshops on discovering and defining AI Agents. By Friday, the role was gone. And no, not due to AI. But in the end, what did it matter.
Four weeks earlier, there had been an environmental signal. The first pre-tremors had started. They were enough to register but not enough to sharpen my focus. I told myself I had six to twelve months before real change would come. I tried to read the tea leaves. I was wrong. Four weeks later, the role was gone.
I need to say something important here. I do not and have not since that morning held any form of animosity or resentment toward my former employer, or anyone involved in the decision. In fact, it was the single best thing that ever happened to me. Actively deflecting negative emotions toward them is what created the space to harness the potent energy that came with the gap. Energy I write about extensively, and energy that allowed me to build what I've built in such a short period of time.
Instead, I turned that energy inward. Not destructively. Productively.
It is not an accident that The Gap and everything it currently represents was established so soon after my redundancy. It happened because I already knew the things I'm now coaching and sharing. I knew about streams. I knew about value beyond the container. I knew about activation distances and runway and the importance of preparation. I knew all of it. And I didn't take the action.
I don't want that for others.
So I hold myself accountable. Not them. Had I taken the action that I now write about, had I mapped my streams, planned my activation distances, built the foundations while I still had the stability to do so, then when a business did what a business does, I would have been in a stronger position. My emotions were my responsibility. My preparation was my responsibility. And the gap I fell into was wider than it needed to be because I chose comfort over action when I had the chance to choose differently.
That's why The Gap exists. Not because I got it right. Because I got it wrong, and I'm building the tools so that others don't have to learn it the way I did.
For years, I wore a badge of honour about my passion and dedication to the company and the product they made. My career leading up to my introduction to that company almost ten years ago, and the challenges I'd faced in the BI industry delivering value, had amplified my passion for what we could do with their platform. That passion carried me forward for almost a decade, in different capacities but always connected to that company and their product.
But that passion, the evangelist mindset, created blinkers. It narrowed my perspective of my own value profile. The energy I was pouring into one container made it impossible to see beyond the walls of that container.
With the blinkers and shackles off, the now and next chapter of my life is not bound by the value the container puts on me, but by the value I put on me.
The role was gone. I wasn't.
The entrepreneur, the coach, the speaker, the musician — none of those are new. They were just never what led the introduction. The institution didn't have a line item for them. Now they're how I introduce myself, because they're closer to the truth than any job title ever was.
Right now, my streams look like this:
Entrepreneur
I co-founded Ripple Global, an enterprise AI consulting practice helping organisations build intelligence into the way they work. I'm also building The Gap into a practice that reaches beyond one-to-one coaching into assessments, content, courses, and tools.
Coach
I work directly with people navigating the gap, helping them map their streams, work through the beliefs that block them, and build sustained momentum over months rather than just the first burst of energy.
Speaker
Twenty-five years of standing in front of rooms, helping people understand complex things. Workshops, keynotes, client sessions. The stage is changing but the skill never left.
Musician
Twenty years of playing, writing, and recording. My band is releasing original music for the first time. A stream I ignored for decades because I called it a hobby instead of giving it proper energy.They don't all make money. They don't all need to. But they're all in motion. And the connections forming between them are the ones I never could have planned.
The Gap is what I'm building from all of this. A self-assessment that measures where you stand across seven dimensions of career resilience. A series of articles that go deep on each one. A workbook that converts awareness into action. And a coaching practice for the people who want to go deeper.
It's built around a concept I call streams — the idea that your value extends far beyond what any single job description has ever captured. Most people don't discover that until the container is removed. I'm building the tools to help people see it before that happens.
I'm based in Melbourne. I do my best thinking on morning walks. I use AI extensively in my work, not because it replaces thinking but because it amplifies it. And I'm still very much in the middle of the journey everything on this site describes.
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