I spent 20 years inside the system. Then I left and built a different one.

Here’s the short version: I spent over 20 years across five large, complex organizations in account management, sales, and training. Alongside the day job, I was leading employee resource groups, coordinating employee engagement with HR and senior leaders, and winning awards for teamwork and strategic thinking. I was good at it. I was also slowly suffocating.

Not because the work was bad. Because the thinking was stuck. Every room I sat in was optimising for a world that was already disappearing. And the more I tried to raise that point, the more I was told to stay in my lane.

So I left. Not with a business plan. Not with a safety net. With a question: What if the future isn’t something you wait for experts to explain — but something you practice, every day, by trusting what you already see?

That question became the foundation of Everyday Futurism. It’s not a methodology or a framework you license. It’s a shift in how you relate to uncertainty. You stop waiting for permission. You start noticing what’s already changing. And you learn to make moves before the map is complete.

Today I work with leaders and organizations who sense that the old playbook isn’t working but haven’t been given a credible alternative. I help them read signals, name the stories keeping them stuck, and take the small, intentional steps that compound into real change.

My own life, career pivots, sabbatical, 20-year corporate exit, choosing flexibility when my daughter was two — these aren’t anecdotes. They’re data. I don’t cite myself as an exception. I offer myself as evidence for a structural pattern.

The work is grounded in trust — the kind you have to build with yourself before you can build it with anyone else.