Why mental health? Of all the challenges there are to solve in the world, why is so much of my passion and time given to resolving mental health issues? For me, it is about understanding its future impact on society. I spent the first part of my entrepreneurial career as a direct marketer. Essentially, a […]
The Spectrum of Wellbeing
By September 20, 2017 5 Comments
Are you happy? ‘Yes,’ was the answer I consistently gave, throughout most of my life. On the surface, I genuinely believed this was the case, because I didn’t have a reference point to truly understand what happiness is. Sure, I had extreme highs – but I also had a lot of lows. My own particular […]
More Human
By October 28, 2015 19 Comments
I was recently recommended a book called More Human by Steve Hilton. It talks about the many ways we can design a world in which humans come first. All our institutions – from government to business; our lives; our education; our food; our health systems – have all become too big, impersonal and industrialised. The […]
Making the Pan Boil
By October 14, 2015 4 Comments
I often use a particular analogy to describe the work I do. I talk about ‘making the pan boil’. I see every new idea or solution that progresses the world as heat in the system. I see the world as a big bathtub and all the solutions around the world gently heating that bathtub. Because […]
The Trauma Gateway
By September 23, 2015 2 Comments
I recently came across an inspirational TED talk on How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime, by Doctor Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician in southeastern San Francisco. She began to wonder if there were wider reasons for the trends she saw in children developing illnesses and conditions. She said, ‘A lot of kids were […]
The Impact Pledge
By August 19, 2015 10 Comments
There often comes a time in many people’s lives when they have achieved success, made a great deal of money and they now feel that they want to ‘give back’ to society and to those less fortunate than themselves. But I wonder about the efficacy of philanthropy in general – whereby trusts and foundations are […]