Thirty years into your career.
Still decades ahead of you.
You’ve built a successful life.
The interesting question now is: what do you want?
The second half of life used to come with a script: career, then retirement.
Today it often doesn’t, which means your next chapter is yours to design.
A thinking partner for accomplished professionals designing the next chapter of their lives, using the Fourth Side model.
Given everything you've built, and everything that's now possible -
how would you design the next chapter of your life if you designed it deliberately?
30
12+
2
Years experience in the financial services industry in Europe and Asia
Years based in HK, working with senior professionals across APAC
Ways to work together: a group programme and 1:1 coaching
Most successful people build their lives using only part of themselves.
The first half of life rewards performance: achieve, deliver, prove.
That is enough to build a career.
But the second half of life asks for something different.
Grounding.
Intention.
Clarity.
Action.
Most people develop two or three of these strongly.
One side is usually missing, as life never required it.
The next chapter begins when you discover that missing dimension.
That is work we focus on in The Fourth Side.
ABOUT
I've lived the transition
you're standing in front of
Early fifties. Amicable divorce after twenty years. Empty nester. Regional C-suite title on the business card.
And an uncomfortable, persistent feeling that I had spent thirty years pursuing a version of success that wasn't entirely mine.
For years I did nothing, and the feeling continued to deepen. Then came Covid.
I left corporate life in 2021, retrained as a coach and conducted 500 hours of 1:1 coaching in my first year.
In parallel, I explored neuroscience and behavioural science, and became fascinated by the practical implications of neuroplasticity (the brain's capacity to reorganise and adapt throughout life, well into your fifties and beyond).
Becoming an entrepreneur after three decades in corporate is both exhilarating and a shock to the system. I invested heavily in both a mindset coach and a business coach because I needed to do the work I now ask my clients to do. It was an extraordinary experience of re-discovering who I was, despite having lived with myself all my life.
Today I have built a life I no longer need holidays from. That is what I want for my clients too.
I bring close to three decades in financial services across Europe and Asia Pacific, including regional C-suite roles, and five years of full-time coaching practice, with over 1,500 hours of 1:1 work across more than 15 countries.
I know what it is to operate at your level.
And I also know what it takes to rebuild from the inside.
THE FOURTH SIDETM
Most successful people build their lives using only part of themselves.
The first half of life rewards performance: achieve, deliver, prove.
That is enough to build a career.
But the second half of life asks for something different.
Grounding.
Intention.
Clarity.
Action.
Most people develop two or three of these strongly.
One side is usually missing, because life never required it... until now.
The next chapter begins when you discover that missing dimension.
That is The Fourth Side.TM
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You're not lost or stuck.
You're at an inflection point.
The career that once defined you may no longer feel like the whole story.
You may be asking questions you didn't have time for before:
What do I actually want from the next chapter of my life?
What parts of myself have been waiting for attention?
How do I move forward deliberately rather than drift?
Questions without answers are at times disorienting. However nothing has gone wrong.
You are simply entering a stage of life where the old script and constraints no longer apply.
You're at an inflection point.
And that's exciting.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This work is for people who have built successful lives and want the next chapter to be intentional rather than accidental.
People who are ready to think carefully about:
• who they are becoming
• what actually matters now
• how to design the years ahead with clarity
... and take action without any time to waste.
WHO THIS IS NOT FOR
This work is not for people who:
are not open to reflection without judgment
are unwilling to make changes in their life
think that life is happening to them
are looking for superficial quick fixes or someone to save them
How we work together
COMING SOON
The Fourth Side programme
A structured programme for accomplished professionals entering the second half of life and wanting to design the next chapter deliberately.
A space for serious reflection, practical experimentation, and conversations with peers navigating the same terrain.
Small cohort, Chatham House rules, deep thinking and action taking.... This isn't your standard coaching programme: it's a philosophical life design programme, anchored in action taking.
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1:1 coaching
A private space to think clearly about the questions that matter most to you now.
For people navigating significant transitions or designing what comes next.
Typically 6 months engagement.
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What you'll receive:
Reflections on what it actually takes to get off autopilot
Neuroscience and behavioural science made useful
The occasional conversation with someone whose perspective I find genuinely interesting, and
Tools you can put to work the same day.
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