Work

A professional life running alongside the books.

The writing runs alongside a professional life in strategy and operating work. The two tracks are kept distinct on purpose. The books are not a resume. The resume is not a substitute for the books.

What follows is a short account of the professional track, for publishers, producers, and collaborators who need to know how the author spends the rest of the week.

Timeline

Present

Strategy and P&L leadership

Operating practice

Operating work in growth, P&L ownership, and the design of systems that have to survive contact with a market. The professional practice is the testing ground for the same ideas the books treat as inner infrastructure: attention under load, decision quality, and command when the room is not quiet.

2016 to present

Operator and builder

Health, product, and commercial work

A working life spent close to numbers, teams, and the gap between a plan and what a week actually contains. Scope has included programme leadership, commercial ownership, and the unglamorous labour of making a system run.

Earlier

Formative roles

India

The years that taught the difference between a strategy that looks complete on a slide and a system a person can actually execute. Those years are the reason the books are written as manuals.

Focus

Areas of work

  • Attention systems and deep work design
  • Decision quality under uncertainty
  • Identity and operating cadence for operators
  • P&L and commercial strategy
  • Programme and organisational design
  • Writing and curriculum for working professionals
  • Speaking on attention, discipline, and self-governance

Available for interviews, long-form conversations, and rooms that want a serious treatment of attention, identity, and decision-making. Booking through the contact page.