Who I Am
From the operating theatre to leadership
For twenty years I was a physician — anesthesiology and critical care medicine. The operating theatre is a place where nothing can be faked: thousands of decisions under pressure where everything was at stake, and where calm and precision are not virtues but necessities.
I was good at it. And at the same time — in the way high-performing people often are — I was quietly disappearing. My own experience of burnout taught me what no textbook could: my life, my health and my strength are not obstacles to the work. They are its foundation. A physician who is not well cannot sustain healing. A leader who is not whole cannot sustain leadership.
Leaving medicine was the hardest and most important decision of my life. I didn't leave to escape it — I left to bring its precision into the domain where it is needed most today: the work of mind, energy and leadership.
Today I connect medicine, psychology and strategic thinking. I help founders and leaders perform without self-destruction — and lead from wholeness, not depletion.
- 20 years as a physician — anesthesiology and critical care medicine
- Thousands of decisions under pressure, with everything at stake
- First-hand experience of burnout — and of the way out
- Leaving medicine: the hardest and most important decision of my life
- Today I connect medicine, psychology and strategic thinking
"I know what pressure does to the body and the mind.
From practice — not from a textbook."