In 2010 I skippered the winning yacht in the Clipper Round the World Race, leading a team of 44 amateur sailors in a 10-month lap of the planet. It was a unique and formidable leadership challenge. Our overall victory came down to our high-performance team culture and my inclusive approach to leadership.

I now help teams and leaders reach that same level of high performance and create a culture where their team will meet its potential. Using a combination of story-telling, coaching, experiential learning and practical, co-created interventions, I am a catalyst for meaningful organisational change.

-AoEC diploma of Executive coaching
– Winner of the 2009-10 Clipper Round the World race
-Author of the Mountbatten award shortlisted ‘Team Spirit – Life and Leadership’

Team Spirit: Life and Leadership on one of the World's toughest Yacht races

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The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the ultimate long distance challenge – a 35,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe, contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts. The 2010 winner was 28-year-old Brendan Hall and his crew in Spirit of Australia. Although Brendan was the youngest and least experienced skipper in the race, the win was no accident – it was the culmination of years of training, skilled navigation and a leadership style way beyond his years.

His skills were soon put to the test – in the middle of a North Pacific hurricane, Brendan went to the rescue of a competing yacht and skippered both boats across one of the most feared oceans in the world. This brutally honest, no-holds-barred account is revealing and instructive, with valuable lessons in leadership and management – as well as never giving up. Thrown in quite literally at the deep end, he is pushed to the limit, and learns lessons you can only learn the hard way.

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