Two jobs in nearly four decades.

I’ve either been creating, growing and exiting businesses or helping others to do the same. The best definition I know for success is to live the life you choose mindfully and consciously.

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A restaurant host stand at the start of evening service, the room full but flat and no one looking up

Hospitality · 24 August 2026

You Can Feel It When You Walk In

You know within thirty seconds. The host is present but not attentive, the greeting is functional, and the room is flat. Demoralisation is the first thing a guest experiences and the last thing most operators address.

Leadership · 2 July 2026

No Neutral Ground

There are only two playbooks and you are running one of them right now. Not the one in the strategy document. The one your people actually experience.

Leadership · 18 June 2026

The Quiet Capitulation

The most dangerous sentence in any organisation is seven words long. It is never shouted, it is never challenged, and it feels like stability.

Just published

The Inheritance Manifesto

A Declaration on Values, Sovereignty, and What We Bequeath

“Something has gone wrong and most of us know it.”

The book names the problem, traces how it happened, and sets out what one generation owes the next: not the money, but the values, the sovereignty, and the standards that money cannot buy.

Published July 2026.

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The newsletters

Conviction

Leadership With a Backbone

Leadership without accountability is just theatre.

On leadership as it actually gets practised: standards, ownership, and the decisions most people in charge quietly avoid. Weekly, direct, and occasionally uncomfortable.

InnSight

The Business of Exceptional Hospitality

Exceptional hospitality is not an accident. It is built.

Written from the operator’s side of the pass. Strategy, standards, and the economics of experience for people who run hotels, restaurants, and venues.

Yes. Know. Deal.

The Art of Buying and Selling Businesses

Price is negotiable; what you understand before you sign is not.

Buying and selling businesses from an operator who has been both the buyer and the seller: what a company is really worth, what you are actually buying, and how the terms get set.

My Way of Being

I get up every morning
to transform how the world works,
to align business and pleasure as mutually inclusive,
so that more people live life and business
on purpose, with passion.

Some of the things I’m personally passionate about, beyond the work.

Be, without thinking.

No judgement of self or others, and no arguing with reality. Most of what we call perception is interpretation. It is what it is.

Spirituality.

Call it God, Allah, spirit, or source; the label makes no difference to me. We each have our own path. This is an insight into mine.

Purpose in action.

The world already holds enough for every person to live well. The shortage is not resources, it is distribution, and giving is how I work on my end of it.

Education, re-imagined.

Even the systems that call themselves future-focused are building for a world that will be gone in 30 years. I’ve imagined something that meets the one that’s coming.

  • Ownership Is a Tolerance IssueWhy most culture problems are actually standards problems.
  • Experience as the Operating SystemTotal QX applied to service-led businesses where experience is the asset that compounds.
  • The Operator on the BoardWhat a working board director actually contributes.
  • When the Board Fails the CompanyA decade of board observation across PE-backed and public-company settings.
  • What Are We Passing On?From The Inheritance Manifesto: intergenerational transmission as the most consequential work any society does.

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