Diving is about exploring new worlds. It is about learning who we are beyond the physical limits we experience on land and exploring new ways to interact with our environment. It is about being free.

I became a Diving Instructor so that I could empower people to explore this new environment and move beyond their current limits.

PADI MSDT with a passion for introducing people to more technical levels of diving.
My favourite courses to teach include Nitrox, Deep, Wreck & Sidemount.
My favourite dives to do are usually very deep or inside something such as a shipwreck or cave.

Technical Diving Highest Certifications: Technical Cave, Advanced Trimix.
Master Scuba Diving Trainer: Selected Specialties I teach: Sidemount, Cavern Diver, Nitrox, Deep, Navigation, Wreck.

LEADERSHIP & DIVING

Leadership is about creating a team which goes beyond current limits, creating something, or going somewhere, new.

As a diver, this is what we do every dive. While our missions vary, the essence requires us to go from the safety of land, where we are comfortable and naturally flourish, and enter into a world where we cannot breathe naturally.

As a technical diver, I do this at a whole other level. Not only do we go beyond the normal limits of human flourishing, but we also go beyond the limits of recreational divers. Like great leaders, we have the knowledge, experience and skill to set our own vision of where we want to go, and to work out how to get there, together.

It is beyond these limits that I flourish, both personally and professionally. As a technical Diver I love to explore the places others cannot, and should not go, diving with mixed gasses deeper than 100m, exploring the inside of shipwrecks, or diving deep into caves. As a Master Coach and Psychologist, I bring this mentality into my work with Leaders to help them redefine the limits of what is possible and to explore new worlds.

TECHNICAL DIVING

I have spent 20 years working my way to the top 2% of all divers globally. For many years, I followed recreational rules and limited myself to the well swum paths of tourists. That was until, I discovered Technical Diving. As a Technical Diver, I have been trained to custom design my dive profiles and gasses, which allows me to dive deeper than 100m. I have also sought out experienced instructors who could train me to dive deep into underwater caves.

In many ways, my relationship with diving is a metaphor for leadership. Leadership is not about following a well-trodden path, or about hiring a guide to take our team somewhere they have been hundreds of times before. Leadership is about exploration. Leadership is about going to places, creating outcomes, and developing concepts that are beyond the current limits and that are new. When we as leaders, learn how to work with teams to explore these new realms, we all learn and grow while simultaneously redefining success. Beyond the limits is where true beauty lies.

What limits are you facing? What might be beyond them?Never one to be told what my limits were, I was drawn to technical diving

Diving underwater involves spending time in a hostile environment. It is a place where we do not naturally flourish. And to do so

Recreational diving has clear limits defining what is safe in terms of depth and time. They are quite simple and provide recreational divers with guidelines to allow them to explore the underwater world in relative safety.

SCUBA Diving is also about coming together to go beyond the normal limits of human life, and to explore the underwater world.

As a Technical Diver, however, this world of recreational diving is filled with tourists and visitors who are guided, on tours to see the sights. Leadership is not about visiting places that others have been, rather it is about creating something new.

As a Technical Diver, I want to go beyond tourism, and to extend these limits. To choose where I want to go and create a plan to make it happen. 

Technical Divers are trained to understand what it takes to go beyond the normally accepted (recreational) limits, to visit places that most cannot, and to return safely. This is the important part, to return safely. Whether in business, life or diving, anyone can break the guidelines and rules, but without sufficient knowledge, this can have significant consequences.

As a Technical Diver, I begin by asking the question of where I want to go. From there, I work out what needs to be done to make this happen.

We flourish beyond the limits. We explore what is truly possible.

There is nothing magical about exploring beyond these boundaries, it takes knowledge, skill and experience.

As a Master Coach and Psychologist, I have the experience and training to take people beyond their own limits, and come back safely.

TEAMWORK

To go where others do not, technical diving is built around both teamwork and leadership. Each diver must be self-sufficient. AND they must be team players.

In business we often require people to be either one or the other of these, and often see these as opposite ends of the same spectrum running from self-sufficient (independent) through to team players.

The magic lies in the AND. To be both self-sufficient and a team player means that divers are ready and prepared to self-rescue, to recognise what might go wrong, and be prepared to meet their own needs. While, at the same time, being aware of how their buddies are doing and having sufficient resources to support, and if needed, rescue others.

Organisational leadership is crying out for the same thing. For leaders to be aware of their own strengths, and weaknesses, and to supportively attend to these for their ‘buddies’.

To shift from a combative and competitive mindset when looking at colleagues and peers, and to view them as buddies.