A Little Bit About Me
I have always been fascinated by teams and their successes and failures. There are countless stories of teams achieving incredible success but there are just as many cases where teams have massively underperformed despite having talented people and experienced leaders.
I’ve spent much of my career wondering why.
23
Years Facilitating
500+
Events Facilitated
8
Countries
From Hospitality Manager To Facilitator
My career began in hospitality, where I experienced first-hand what it takes to build and lead teams in fast-paced environments. In 2003, I moved into professional facilitation and training, working with business teams throughout Thailand before, in 2010, becoming Regional Manager for an experiential training provider operating across Asia.
In 2013, I started my own business under my own name. People like working with people, not faceless organisations. I know I do. So it was an easy decision for me to launch a personal brand.
What I Do Now
Today I design and facilitate team building programs, leadership workshops, and team development sessions for organisations throughout Thailand and across the Asia-Pacific region.
Many of my clients are international companies visiting Thailand for conferences, incentives, and leadership retreats, while others invite me to deliver workshops in Singapore, Malaysia and elsewhere in Asia.
Whether I’m leading an Amazing Race through Bangkok, running a Thai-style cooking experience in Phuket, facilitating DISC workshops, exploring Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, or helping a leadership group clarify its culture and values, my objective is always the same: Help people work better together.
I’m not interested in delivering presentations filled with management jargon and cheesy leadership quotes. I attended enough of those myself earlier in my career and learned absolutely nothing!
I’m interested in helping people understand how they work together, how they communicate, how they lead, and ultimately how they can become a stronger team.
It’s Serious Fun
People often ask whether I specialise in team building or training. The answer is that I do both. It’s 50/50. They go together.
A lot of my work is running fun team building and team bonding activities. Indeed, this is how I began my career as a facilitator and it plays a large part in my business to this day. I love leading these types of programs: Amazing races, cooking experiences, team challenges, movie-making etc.
The fun stuff is just as important as the more serious work and is crucial in strengthening relationships.
Over the years, my brand expanded and I started bringing my energetic and humorous facilitation style into the meeting room and combining fun activities with serious work.
People learn best when they’re actively involved and fully engaged. That means fewer slides and more conversation. My programs combine practical activities, discussion, reflection, and action learning to create experiences that are both memorable and genuinely useful back in the workplace.
I like to describe this as “serious fun”.
There’ll be plenty of laughter, but there should also be moments that make people stop, think, and see their team differently.
“Thank you for the fantastic session yesterday. I have heard so many good reviews from my colleagues.”
Richemont Luxury
A Personal Approach
One of the biggest advantages of working with an independent facilitator is that you’ll always deal directly with me. I’m the person who answers your email and I’m the person who designs your program and who will stand in front of your team on the day.
There are no sales departments, no handovers, and no subcontractors pretending to be someone else. Just a straightforward partnership focused on delivering an event your team will genuinely remember.
I have an enthusiastic facilitation style and a wicked sense of humour and you’ll notice that I like to keep things friendly and personal. It is this personal approach to my work that builds a foundation of trust – a basic requirement for any successful team.
“We have been back at the office for several days now but still display the passion from your event.”
Forevermark
Beyond The Workshop
When I’m not facilitating, you’ll usually find me writing.
My blog explores teamwork, leadership, organisational culture, and the science behind high-performing teams. Sometimes I challenge popular management ideas. Sometimes I share lessons from recent workshops. Occasionally I’ll simply write about something I’ve observed after watching hundreds of teams interact.
If you’re interested in building better teams, I hope you’ll find something there worth thinking about.
Why I Still Love This Work
After thousands of participants and hundreds of organisations, I still find every team interesting. Every group develops its own culture and every leader creates a different environment. So whenever I stand in front of a group, the conversations and learning insights are unique.
I’m constantly reading, writing, experimenting with new ideas, and refining my programs and am a member of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) because, as a facilitator, my own learning never ends.