Perhaps it’s to feel deeply connected. Fully expressed. In control of how your words land.
To close the gap between who you are and who your audience experiences.
And to have the craft to take ownership of the journey, so the way it looks and feels in your head and heart is finally reflected in what happens when you speak.
Your talent matching your ambition.
A delivery that reflects your experience and wisdom
Moving beyond confidence into freedom.
Thriving in being seen.
Authenticity isn’t the goal. It’s the baseline. It’s where connection begins. And with craft, you have the ability to lead that connection. It turns words into an experience and moments an audience doesn’t just hear, but feels.
After more than 30 years working across television, film, stage and speaking, I’ve learned that an artist needs range. The tools and craft to express what feels alive on any given day, rather than being confined to one way of showing up.
I wasn’t naturally talented. I was confident, but confidence is fragile under pressure without craft.
I was passionate and relentless about getting better. I slept in the boot of my car so I could afford training. I crashed and burned on stages, live television and film sets. I got things spectacularly wrong and occasionally got them right.
I studied in Los Angeles, London, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland, pursuing a career as an actor, TV presenter and speaker with everything I had until eventually it became my full-time life.
Thousands of hours of training, rehearsing and performing taught me that what an audience experiences as effortless is rarely accidental. There are layers of craft beneath it, choices, nuance and timing that, with enough practice, eventually become instinctive.
The audience doesn’t see those choices. They only experience their effect.
I have a gift for seeing what a presenter needs to keep moving forward.
That ability has been shaped over decades of getting it wrong, getting it right, being trained, directed and developing my craft. I’ve learned to notice the small things that create a significant shift and see possibilities someone may not yet see for themselves.
I’m fascinated by finding different ways for someone to experience their craft, rather than simply understand it. I’ve used the resonance of a cello to reveal what else might be available in a presenter’s voice, and horses as a mirror for authenticity, responding to what’s happening beneath the words rather than what you’re trying to project.
The tools may be unconventional, but the pursuit is always the same: to give you greater access to yourself.
More range. More choices. The craft to respond to what’s alive in the moment and the freedom to express it.
Whether you’re on stage, in the boardroom or in a moment where your words really matter. You may be developing the ability to occupy space without surrendering it, or already an accomplished speaker searching to take your work somewhere new.
Wherever you are in that pursuit, I want to be in your corner and help your talent match your ambition.
Timeline of craft & wild adventure
The USA Dream Team (1992)
What started as a fresh out of school trip to see the USA Dream team play at the Olympics turned into life as a professional rugby player after overhearing a conversation the team had lost a key player to injury.
The start of a 30 year career (1994 - 1997)
Back home in Christchurch, New Zealand I was introduced to an agent and began a decades long career in modeling. A small role in the Peter Jackson film, Frighteners with Michael J Fox was my intro to acting, then the lead in a German Beer TVC, even though I wasn’t invited to audition. I waited in that audition room all day until there was nobody left and they finally gave me a shot. I was hooked.
No Plan B, TV & stars (1998 - 2000)
With a move North the opportunities came fast. With limited craft but a fearless approach I landed roles in prime time soaps and series inc Young Hercules as Ryan Gosling’s sidekick. During this time I slept in the trunk of my car so I could afford acting lessons.
Reality TV Show winner (2001)
While taking time out to reconnect with my roots, play golf and drink guiness, I won Cleo Bachelor of the year. This opened the door to many wonderful opportunities and I wrapped things up in the TV2 Celebrity Xmas special. I became fascinated with authenticity around this time and what ‘just be you’ meant. I concluded that I would rather have mastery than celebrity.
TV series ‘A Working Holiday’ (2006)
A career highlight as a film crew followed my every move in Cambodia coaching the national rugby. It’s here I learned to present in a style that closed the gap between who I really was and who I was being seen as and it felt good. 2006 was where my talent was finally catching up with my ambition.
Winning and the art of preparation (2007 - 2011)
From lead roles on prime time dramas, hosting reality TV shows, speaking gigs with my idols and flying around the world to train with renowned presenting and acting coaches, this era was as fruitful as it was intense. I learned to ‘win’ and developed the art of preparation.
Bali and the pursuit of authenticity (2011 - 2016)
Periods of my life have been dedicated to trying new things and reconnecting. Bali was the happiest time. From creating a clothing and sculpture label, flying to NZ and Singapore regularly for shoots, it seemed the less I tried the more things happened.
It was here the answer to ‘Just Be You’ was discovered.
Writing Fairy Tales in Transylvania (2016)
I had this nagging idea that I needed to live in a cabin overlooking Count Dracula’s castle in Romania and write fairy tales. So I did.
An International speaking business (2017 - present))
With a new fire inside it was time to take my experience to the world and share insights with other presenters I knew were not being taught. I wanted for presenters to experience a level of authenticity that had mostly been missing.
I moved to Australia, built a speaking business with events and retreats in Australia, NZ, USA, Bali, Portugal, Austria and UK and toured constantly.
Mastery (2018)
October this year I experienced Claircognizance (A deep knowing). I realized I knew nothing, that the pursuit of the craft of Presenting was endless and this was the beginning of mastery.
Horses (2022 )
Although I had started this in 2020, it was this year I began adding horses to some of my longer format teachings of authenticity, and there seemed no better place to begin than in Texas, USA.
Award winning TED talk coach.
The Work Expands (2024)
My work moved increasingly into the corporate world, working with CEOs, executives, lawyers and barristers. Different rooms and different stakes. The higher the stakes, the more my skills were needed to help a speaker match the responsibility of the moment.
The Work Deepens (2026)
More than 30 years of craft continues to evolve through the Voice Stack, Voice Blueprint and increasingly immersive ways of developing speakers. The pursuit remains the same: greater range, greater freedom and seeing just how good you can become.
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