NOW – Current focus

Updated 28^th January 2018

WORK

Leading the sales and marketing team at EDENZ Colleges to expand student enrolments in our local and international markets.

• Continuously improving Agile Marketing with daily scrums and weekly retrospectives for print, web and social media refinement. Balancing regulatory requirements with customer-centric content marketing. Our mix? A blend of hyper-targeted micro-campaigns, marketing automation, and rigorous CRO.
• Continuously improving Agile Sales with my team of 13. Weekly scrums and retrospectives around knowledge transfer, scripts, and performance.
• Focused on holding space for self-management, wholeness at work and challenging the status quo.
• Realigning business strategy and rebranding. Yes, with all that it entails. From strategy to execution.

PROJECTS

DIY wannabe

• • Creating a deck, and landscaping our house. 12 tonnes of shells and 100 plants.
  • Sewing curtains.
  • Retaining wall and seat.
  • Raised beds.
  • Custom garden shed.
  • Epic huge swing.
  • Pull-up rings.
  • Shade sail.

MIND

• • Searching opportunities to drive Teal and DDO initiatives in the work environment.
  • Wanting to talk to developers about BauGruppe home ownership in New Zealand (a guide to BauGruppe PDF) and micro, multi-unit developments.
  • Thinking through how to start a school and residential care center for kids with Autism. Here are my thoughts/plans so far: oasis.school. I need help with: funding, governance, security and succession planning.  The goal is to create a space where our Autistic son Oli (and other children who cannot care for themselves) can be cared for THRIVE when we pass.

READING

• • Reinventing Organisations
  • Never Eat Alone
  • Makers The New Industrial Revolution
  • Hooked
  • The Obstacle Is The Way
  • Smartcuts
  • Nice Companies Finish First
  • Let My People go Surfing
  • Ego Is The Enemy
  • Perennial Seller
  • Extreme Ownership
  • Hacking Growth
  • Holacracy – The revolutionary management system that abolishes hierarchy
  • The Side Project Report
  • Tools of Titans
  • Sun Tzu – The Art Of War For Executives

BODY

With Oli (our son) often reluctant walk or needing a lift to get places, I am upping my arm & core strength to carry him.

• Daily
  • 60 push ups
• Saturday +
  • 600 sit-ups with 30kg weight bag
  • 20 dips
  • 20 pull-ups
  • 100 push-ups
  • 20 legs to bar lifts
• Preparing for The Hillary ultra-marathon with Wednesday and Sunday runs.
  • Current PB.
    • 10k 53:55
    • Half marathon in 1:59:04
    • Auckland marathon 4:53:08.
• Refining my LCHF diet. Experimenting with various Kimchee recipes, sauerkraut and intermittent fasting (one large meal per work day, two on weekends).