Welcome to My Personal Corner!
My Mission
Advising Leaders and Teams to Navigate Challenges and Grow
My mission is to advise, equip, and support leaders and teams to grow and get to the next level, as well as navigate successfully through challenges and difficult periods. By providing my clients with cutting-edge business advice uniquely blended with transformational leadership coaching.
Why I Do This
Because when I was going through tough times, I wish I could have benefitted from tools, methods, sparring, and encouragement on a one-on-one basis from somebody who had faced the same issues.
If you are also looking for the same, i.e., a personal leadership adviser – then perhaps you could benefit from working with me. You gain one-on-one coaching based upon a robust intellectual foundation, and business acumen designed to boost your leadership development and reach your professional goals, emerging stronger and wiser.
You benefit from my rich experience and the lessons from battles that left me with quite a few battle scars. I have successfully overcome many hurdles on my leadership journey, though not all.
Even when you don’t win – you still learn.
Learning Leadership
From a young age, I’ve had a keen interest in leadership, talent development, and personal growth. My leadership journey began in school, where I was elected as class captain in my first year and then for seven consecutive years.
This early experience sparked a lifelong interest in handling conflicts and politics – needed for dealing with bullies as well as guiding and nurturing others. Over the years, I’ve honed my leadership skills and built a successful international career over several decades, always with a focus on empowering those around me.
Sports Excellence
I bring sporting analogies into my leadership advisory from my personal background in sports excellence.
As a national champion in my sport, I’ve experienced the dedication, discipline, and perseverance required to reach the top. My passion for sports extends beyond my own achievements; for many years, I coached young talent, helping them become champions themselves.
My approach in my leadership advisory includes elements from the science of sport psychology, ensuring that my clients’ performance includes mindset exercises and other preparations to strengthen mental flexibility and resilience, particularly useful when navigating corporate politics or career transitioning.
Read more about Leadership Lessons from Sport HERE
Passionate About Intellectual Stimulation
My drive for continuous improvement is fuelled by my intellectual curiosity. I stay abreast of the latest developments in my key fields of expertise, including risk management, decision intelligence, and leadership excellence.
This passion for lifelong learning underpins my ability to provide cutting-edge insights and strategies to my clients, ensuring they receive the most effective advice, guidance, and support.
My Leadership Career
My career in the financial services sector has spanned over 35 years and has been full of interesting and intellectual challenges.
I have always been excited by uncharted territory, and in hindsight, it is obvious how this shaped my career – generating leading-edge solutions for unusual problems. I’ve held senior executive roles at global companies, including as Managing Director at UBS, where I led key developments in risk control blending legal, regulatory, and compliance with IT and technology – in different cultures, multi-disciplinary high-performing teams, and with colleagues of many nationalities.
My experience extends to directing risk intelligence, decision support systems, and management at both SAS Institute and Affecto.
Education & Qualifications
- Wharton – Global Leadership Programme
- MBA from University of Westminster, London
- LL.M – Copenhagen University
- Bachelor in Accounting and Finance – Copenhagen Business School
- Qualified software programmer
- Insurance qualifications equivalent to FCII – general insurance, liability insurance and reinsurance.
- Diploma courses in psychology, negotiation, leadership and corporate governance.
