Experience

Metris Leadership

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Leadership Consultant

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  This involves delivery of stimulating and challenging bespoke packages that provide leadership and management training to a wide range of predominantly corporate clients.We deliver on theory, based on our own experience as well as from a wide range of literature, and then put clients into practical scenarios where they experience real pressure and discomfort but in a diligently managed environment. We then facilitate the post action review process, encouraging the kind of candid, honest and powerful performance evaluations that can only happen in good teams, built on trust.



Run The Alps

• France
• Recreational Facilities
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Guide

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  The mountains are a great arena for personal development through physical and mental challenge. It is also a great environment for being calm and reflective in the presence of Nature. Every trail running trip I guide is a step in personal development for both sides of the client/guide relationship. I facilitate a learning experience for the clients, most of whom have stepped outside their comfort zone, are experiencing some degree of stress and look to me to guide them through that, towards a place of accomplishment, self-worth, competency and also joy. I need to manage and work with each individual within their own personal context whilst also managing the dynamic of each particular group. The possibilities for getting it wrong are endless and every day truly is a school day. Planning, logistics, communication, emotional intelligence and empathy are core requisite skills that go alongside the hard skills of a highly experienced International Mountain Leader.



Alpinschule Oberstdorf

• Germany
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Bergwanderführer/Mountain Trekking Guide

  • May 2018 - Present

  A great and supportive team of which to be part. This has involved learning German in a hurry! And guiding groups through week-long alpine traverses such as the E5 from Oberstdorf to Meran (Italian Sud-Tirol via Austrian Lechtal and Bavarian Ober-Allgäu) and ascents of Allgäu classics like Hohes Licht and Mädelegabel. It's given me the opportunity to constantly learn about the natural environment, to more keenly observe and analyse our impact on it and to educate and stimulate our guests in different ways of considering our relationship with Nature.It has also given me a great opportunity to analyse the cakes and weissbier of these regions.



Photo Journey Ltd

• Co-Founder and Director

  • Oct 2018 - May 2022

  I co-founded this business in late 2018/early 2019 and co-directed it until May 2022 when I stepped aside to focus on a career in the field of leadership consultancy. During my time with Photo Journey, we delivered meaningful and life-changing photographic and travel experiences in Nepal and Scotland. We also rode the Covid rollercoaster, which came at a vulnerable time for a young business in the travel sector, throwing up significant challenges and providing a real testing ground for the practices of leadership, teamwork and all that that entails. Whilst (as a consequence of being?) difficult and stressful, this role was rich in learning opportunities. Unknown unknowns became known unknowns which in turn became competencies that became routine business. Working across potential cultural and linguistic barriers to provide meaningful experiences for our clients in Nepal and meaningful livelihoods for our Nepali staff was one of the most rewarding elements of the business. This involved constant agility and dynamism - both the joys and the frictions of doing business in a country where poverty and corruption are endemic and things that could be assumed with a high degree of certainty to function in the UK must be contingency planned against to a different level.



Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Healthcare Assistant

  • Mar 2020 - May 2020

  In anticipation of the Covid crisis I volunteered my services to the NHS. It was a battle of perseverance to get to the start line (the administration were well behind the curve) but it was worth it. During the peak of the Covid crisis I qualified as a Healthcare Assistant and worked in support of nursing staff and doctors in wards all across a large hospital operating in extremis. I was privileged to be able to bring my life-experience to bear in this environment: to offer support and care not only to the patients but to the dedicated team of full time medical professions. It is hard to imagine a more fulfilling and intensely human experience.



Adventure Quest - Helping Veterans in the Mountains

• Mountain Leader & Educator

  • Dec 2014 - May 2018

  Working in the mountain environment with veterans with mental health conditions. Adventure Quest was a CIC (Community Interest Company), funded by Help for Heroes, that used the Mountain Training Association's Mountain Leader (ML) qualification as a framework for improving the mental health and wellbeing of veterans, whilst also giving them the opportunity to become professionally qualified. In this role I guided, trained and coached our clients through the ML syllabus whilst also helping them to build and implement strategies for recovery.Through this work I helped our clients realise and draw benefit from the therapeutic value of nature, exercise and community whilst always learning the very same myself.



World Food Programme

• Italy
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• District Co-ordinator - Dhading and Rasuwa

  • Jun 2015 - Nov 2015

  Responsible for delivery of acute aid and longer term reconstruction to two of Nepal's earthquake affected districts as part of WFP's Remote Access Operations. This involved managing multinational teams from an ops room in Kathmandu as well as extensive field work from some of the hardest to reach and most profoundly affected areas of post-earthquake Nepal. It involved intense consultation with affected communities to discern priority of needs and to create and deliver strategy for meeting those needs both in terms of short term, life-saving aid and in project managing longer term reconstruction projects.



Imperial College London

• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Full Time MSc Student

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

  Core Course: Environmental Business, Economics, Policy and Law. Ecology. Pollution and Control. Research Methods and Statistics. Option Term: Water Management Specialisation. Waste Water Treatment, Sanitation, Hygiene, Drinking Water, Integrated River Basin ManagementThesis: Air Pollution, Public Health, Transport Mode Choice and Behaviour Change Core Course: Environmental Business, Economics, Policy and Law. Ecology. Pollution and Control. Research Methods and Statistics. Option Term: Water Management Specialisation. Waste Water Treatment, Sanitation, Hygiene, Drinking Water, Integrated River Basin ManagementThesis: Air Pollution, Public Health, Transport Mode Choice and Behaviour Change



Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Association

• Sustainability Consultant

  • Jan 2012 - May 2012

  This role involved extensive fieldwork in remote areas of Nepal, assessing the sustainability of existing projects and chairing community meetings with potential user groups to assess their suitability and need. It also entailed advising the Nepal Director, verbally as well as via full written reports, providing observation, incite and recommendation, with the aim of helping KAAA to improve the sustainability of its various projects; drinking water, micro-hydro, bridges and schools. This role involved extensive fieldwork in remote areas of Nepal, assessing the sustainability of existing projects and chairing community meetings with potential user groups to assess their suitability and need. It also entailed advising the Nepal Director, verbally as well as via full written reports, providing observation, incite and recommendation, with the aim of helping KAAA to improve the sustainability of its various projects; drinking water, micro-hydro, bridges and schools.



British Gurkhas Nepal

• Operations Officer

  • Aug 2010 - Aug 2011

  Contingency planning and training for natural disaster, civil and political unrest and acts of terrorism scenarios. Focus on survivablility, security and administration and processing of UK nationals. This involved liaison and co-ordination with Nepali Army and Police as well as DfID and The British Embassy.I was also heavily involved in the selection process for British Gurkhas, predominantly as an interviewing officer. Contingency planning and training for natural disaster, civil and political unrest and acts of terrorism scenarios. Focus on survivablility, security and administration and processing of UK nationals. This involved liaison and co-ordination with Nepali Army and Police as well as DfID and The British Embassy.I was also heavily involved in the selection process for British Gurkhas, predominantly as an interviewing officer.



The Royal Gurkha Rifles

• Battle Group Liaison Officer

  • Nov 2009 - Apr 2010

  Daily Presentation to The Brigade Commander and his Staff on the situation in our Battle Group's Area of Operations.Involvement in both Battle Group and Brigade Level Operational Planning. Daily Presentation to The Brigade Commander and his Staff on the situation in our Battle Group's Area of Operations.Involvement in both Battle Group and Brigade Level Operational Planning.