About Me
Writing
I fell in love with writing at a young age. When I was fourteen, I wrote my first book by hand. At sixteen, I wrote a movie script that I sent to a Hollywood address I found in an old magazine. I was a dreamer back then and, to a large extent, still am.
I have come to realise that my dilemma as a writer is navigating and balancing the constraints of my reality and the unboundedness of my imagination. This dilemma is seldom a matter of fact versus fiction but rather of competing fictions.
In my writings, I like to explore and play with all kinds of fiction: the fiction we are told, the fiction we tell ourselves, the fiction we label 'reality', the fiction we label 'fiction'.
Like all writers, I compose in this world of fiction. Words are my instruments of choice. I use them to create notes, melodies, chords, and basslines—each carefully crafted to entice a specific emotional human response: fear, exhilaration, love, sadness, etc. I strongly believe that we, writers, are the composers of the soundtrack of our lives. And that is a responsibility I take seriously.
Consultancy
I have spent many years thinking, writing, and talking about ways of creating great cultures in organisations, cultures built on the pillars of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), which, despite the recent attacks by Trump administration in the US, is still very much alive and important. I have also worked on corporate social responsibility, climate change, sustainability, and social and environmental justice. DEI may have its distractors, but show me someone respectable who tryly believe the workplace should be the uniform, inequitable, and exclusionary! Equity and belonging are societal imperatives, and governments and corporations owe their people and workers the right to equity in opportunities and outcomes. I have developed practical solutions to help organisations build strong cultures based on the foundation of strong equity and belonging principles.
Visit my consulting website and contact me to discuss how we can work together to promote justice, fairness, and inclusion and build great, people-first, suatainable, successful, and productive work cultures.
Visual Art
I used to think of myself exclusively as a writer. But lately I consider myself a storyteller, and writing is simply one form of telling stories. So, I have been experimenting with visual art as an amateur artist. I say amateur because I have zero formal training in art and yet that never stops me revelling in the joy of playing with colour and texture and lines and shapes to create new things. Whatever I have in mind, I find that colour illuminates the concept or idea whereas lines draw out and trace the specifics and details. Combining the two is excellent for producing highly evocative abstract images that appeal directly to our evolutionary need for efficiency and clarity but without the monotony of repetition. Explore some my amateur paintings by following the link below.
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