I started an advertising agency at 25, fresh from AWARD School, and grew it into a successful business over 10 years before I sold it and headed overseas. For the next 10 years, I lived in Singapore, Hong Kong and London leading thousands of people in multinational advertising networks Saatchi & Saatchi and J Walter Thompson, and getting to work with amazing clients all over the planet. For a kid from Dubbo it was dizzying and it was damaging.

By the time we returned to Australia there were important questions I needed to answer. Was it possible to be a high-performing and happy human at the same time? How was wild ambition sustainable over time? Did you have to make trade-offs to get ahead?

As part of this exploration, I became a Certified Teacher of “Search Inside Yourself”, a leadership program designed and tested at Google. I’ve tried to practise the skills I learned in everything I’ve done since as a co-founder, CMO, investor, mentor, advisor and coach.

Teaching these skills to founders and their teams is a genuine privilege. They help people become better versions of themselves and the lessons they take away last a lifetime.

With luck, I’ll see you and your team in a program soon.

Craig.