22/10/2026
At , I spoke about how I came to write a book about leadership in the AI era.
I talked about the route that took me from military engineer, through innovation and psychoanalysis, to becoming an author.
It has not been a linear progression.
- Engineering taught me to understand systems.
- The military taught me about judgement under pressure.
- Innovation work has kept me close to the possibilities, and consequences, of technological change.
- Psychoanalysis offered a different lens: the inner worlds, relationships and unseen patterns that shape what people and organisations do.
- Writing has been a way of bringing those threads together.
I've started to think of career not as a ladder, but as a body of experience that gradually reveals its own shape.
If that resonates, come and join me and up to 9other people at the next 9others in Nailsworth, 12 November at Vinotopia W**e Barn - come for good conversation with people who may just give you a new perspective on the business or career you're building.
Tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/9others/2413388
My book is an examination of what my military experience and psychoanalytic training reveal about what leaders must protect as technology accelerates: the human capacity to feel, think, and choose in the moments that most demand it- https://www.mindyourself.ai/
