Built in tough workplaces. Brought to yours.

My story

Before HR, before PRINT®, there was a life built in some of the toughest, and most extraordinary, environments going.

My global work began in the early 2000s. In 2002, I held my best friend in my arms as she passed. It's the kind of moment that changes the shape of a life. I made a decision, right then, that I needed to live, properly live, and explore this world, and find ways to help in it. Do more. Be more.

That decision took me to Bangladesh, where I founded Woven Women that same year, a social enterprise helping local women build sustainable income through artisan handicrafts, giving them a real alternative to the exploitation that poverty so often creates. It took me guiding three month overland safaris from South Africa to Rwanda and back, genuinely some of the best life lessons I've ever had. Over five years, it took me into construction work as HR for EPCM projects on a gold mine in China and another in Laos, where I trained and worked alongside remarkable local nationals, people I still call friends today. Watching them grow into their own careers over the years, when the alternative for some could easily have been a very different path, has been one of the most rewarding parts of my working life. And it took me back to Nepal, again and again, across sixteen years, where I used to take local women out for meals and listen to their stories, many of them survivors of trafficking. Hearing what they'd been through is what led to Hemingway Journeys in 2006, supporting Himatrek alongside Govinda and Krishna Poudel.

Later, in 2014, I became a radio operator on offshore rigs, bringing in the helicopters, managing logistics, and running the alarm systems. Along the way, I also trained as a yoga teacher, several times over, in different corners of the world, another thread in the same search for understanding people, myself included, more deeply.

The next turning point was harder still. My father was violently attacked, randomly, by a young man affected by drugs. It changed all of us, and it took the best part of a decade, and a lot of resilience, to work through. I understand, personally, what it means to rebuild after something disrupts everything you thought was stable. That's exactly what I bring to a workplace in crisis, whether that's a difficult termination, an investigation, or a team trying to find its feet again. It's also what led me, at 50, to go back to study and complete my CPHR.

PRINT® found me at the right time. It answers the same question I'd been chasing my whole life, in every country and every role: why do we do what we do? I built Hemingway HR, and PRINT® with it, on a simple belief, that the Why of You can travel with people into any organisation, anywhere in the world, and genuinely change how they work and lead. If we were all taught this in high school, I think we'd shape our lives, and ourselves, very differently. That's the work I get to do now.