I am as passionate about people personally, as I am about their development professionally.

Like many, I was born with a checklist for success printed on the back of my birth certificate. From a young age, I knew what was expected from me and what I needed to do to achieve the levels of performance, success, recognition, acceptance, and sense of accomplishment that most of us desire. Despite a difficult start, before long, I had systematically ticked all the boxes for a successful life off my checklist and by the age of thirty, had met all the requirements for what a successful life should be.

Career-wise, I had climbed the corporate ladder to a position of power and influence. In my personal life, I’d met and married someone I’d chosen as my partner for life, bought a nice house, drove a nice car, and had just given birth to, what I can now only describe as my heart walking outside my body- my beautiful daughter. On the outside, things were looking good, a perfect picture of a successful life. But I found myself staring out of the window of my corporate corner office in a high-rise building in the middle of Sandton, Johannesburg, saying to myself: “If this is what success looks like, then I’m not sure I want to be successful?’