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Boundaries are a performance strategy

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  Boundaries are a performance strategy  Does this sound familiar? You're working 15-hour days. Weekends have disappeared. Your calendar is overflowing, your inbox never reaches zero, and even when you're not working, you're thinking about work. You know the pace isn't sustainable, but the project still needs delivering, so you keep pushing. High-intensity projects can be exhilarating at first. There's momentum, visible progress, and the satisfaction of delivering something meaningful. But that initial excitement can quickly become a chronic cycle of overwork: long days, sacrificed self-care, disrupted sleep, and the creeping feeling that you're never quite in control. In this month’s blog, I explore why this pattern develops, how our brains respond under sustained pressure, and the practical strategies that help protect both performance and wellbeing while still delivering excellent work for clients. Why This Pattern Happens Your brain switches into survival mo...
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  This month’s newsletter ended up circling around a common theme: how people navigate change together. From complex corporate transitions, to the fragile social bonds within chimpanzee communities, to a science-fiction story about building trust under impossible circumstances, each piece explores what happens when groups are forced to adapt to a new reality. The Job I’m pleased to share a case study from the a-connect website featuring work I was proud to support: helping execute a complex pharmaceutical divestment while protecting continuity, compliance, and deal value. It reflects the kind of work I most enjoy, turning a signed transaction into operational reality across multiple markets, stakeholders, and transition risks. My thanks to Bernie and Loredana Iten for the featuring this on the website, and to Hue Truong for being an excellent team mate. It was a pleasure to contribute to this work with a-connect and to be part of a team focused on making complex transitions w...
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Patterns, practice, and the bigger picture

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A new year has a funny way of nudging us into reflection. Lately, I’ve found myself slowing down and paying closer attention to how I see things - not just in my work, but outside it too.  I sketch as a hobby, completed a course on cognitive psychology and neuropsychology, and I’m about to begin another. All of it, in different ways, has been about the same thing: learning to notice patterns that are easy to miss when you’re too close to the action. That instinct to step back and see the bigger picture is a recurring theme through this months’ newsletter. The Job January is often when leaders pause, zoom out, and ask the uncomfortable but necessary question: are we seeing the whole picture? In the world of acquisitions and divestments, that big picture can be surprisingly hard to hold onto. Every deal feels unique. Every deal is different. Context matters. Complexity varies wildly. But in broad strokes, most transactions move through the same recognisable stages. So I want to sk...
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