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Where did your vision come from?

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Where did it originate?

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Well, I started my career in the investment banking

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and technology and executive search sectors in London,

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working for listed companies.

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And I think by the time I got into executive search,

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that really switched it on.

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And I got to understand how organizations work,

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how careers work, how people work, how leadership works,

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and how cultures work.

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And met thousands of people during the course of that time.

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And it really inspired me,

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because so many people have everything they need,

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but somehow are missing the mark.

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Something vital is missing, some connection to,

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today I guess we think of it as purpose and meaning,

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some sort of alignment to your first question,

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which is, what is your vision?

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And I think that we're all so hectic,

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we can get lost in the noise of life.

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And every now and again, sort of put our heads up and think,

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gosh, why am I doing what I'm doing?

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And I witnessed that so many times,

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it really ignited a fire within me

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to help people to find that,

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what I think of today as a golden thread.

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So you're hoping to be that sort of,

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what is it, like a lighthouse pointing a direction,

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trying to give them more of a direction.

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And perhaps, yeah, I think kind of a catalyst for change,

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and it's not so much a hope, I've been doing this,

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I've had my business for 19 years now,

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and worked with amazing people around the world,

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across the sectors and in lots of different cultures.

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And I think that what business needs from us today,

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is different to last year or the year before.

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And the ability to actually stay agile,

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both in our thinking and emotionally agile,

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is really probably one of the most important things

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that we can develop for ourselves.

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So it's how we think rather than what we think,

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which kind of dictates the future

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that we're building for ourselves,

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our teams and our organizations.