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About Me

Forensic Strategist

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I facilitate professionals aged 40+ who are at a point where a persistent pattern or plateau is creating enough conflict that changing it matters.   

 

But how? 

Patterns repeat. Progress stalls. Complexity builds. You’ve thought about it. You’ve worked on it. You’ve tried to fix it. And yet, it remains.

This is where I operate.

 

A forensic process that distills the cause so you can confidently proceed in ways that reliably change this for good. 

There are symptoms and stories, and there are systemic constraints.

 

Underlying constraints is where my focus goes, with precise actions presented,  governed by the lawful sequencing needed for reliably creating change that holds. 

You are not a thing. You are something happening. 

When you see that clearly, you can't unsee it.

My Background

My work sits at the intersection of human behaviour, trauma, and system-level change.

My interest in human behaviour began circa age 12. My father offered me a tenner for a written summary of a book: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I went on to make $100 in the weeks that followed completing books by Dr. Joseph Murphy, the power of the subconscious mind, Zig Ziglar's entire collection, and the work of Og Mandino. I went onto study Jungian Psychology, before making the personal development space a permanent fixture in my life. 

 

Over time, I saw a consistent limitation: insight and mindset work alone did not reliably produce change that holds.

This led me into the study of complex trauma, specialising in C-PTSD, I am trauma-specialised as a result,  that work led me to nervous system regulation as the biological foundation of behaviour, perception, and capacity. From there, my focus expanded beyond the individual parts to understand the design of the whole system.

I am co-architect of  the Human Operating System Architecture (HOSA), Founder of the HOSA Institute and Lead Faculty training practitioners, coaches, therapists and doctors in HOSA.

 

HOSA is an industry-agnostic system architecture of the whole human, designed to move us beyond fragmented interventions and into precise, system-level transformation.

I have written The Science of Change That Holds and co-authored four academic papers exploring the bio-physics and bio-mechanisms required for sustainable change, upon which HOSA lives.

I will have completed my MSc in Mind Psychology and Body Psychotherapy by July, 2026, am certified in Polyvagal Theory, and have toured and trained in more than twelve therapeutic and somatic modalities.

My work is grounded in lived experience and science. I have applied these exact principles to create the kind of change in my own life, that most people are still trying to find: resolving patterns at their root, restoring capacity, and building a system that can hold growth without collapse.

Before focusing on the human condition, I worked in corporate environments across business development, product design, and human behaviour. I supported C-suite leaders in regulated financial services firms to prepare their biology for stressful meetings with the Regulator.

Originally from Canada, I now live in Ireland.

My work is simple in principle: make the implicit, explicit.


When you can see clearly, you can act precisely. And when you act precisely, you remove unnecessary effort, time, and noise.

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Available on Amazon Worldwide

in paperback and Kindle.

Where My Focus Goes

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HOSA Institute

Founder, Lead Faculty and Course Designer of HOSA Practitioner Certification

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Who Turned The Lights On Podcast

Where Lived Experience x Science meet to reveal reliable ways to find our way out of the dark.

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Forensic Diagnostics For Change That Holds

A System Level Design into resolving the why, what and how of persistent patterns.

HOSA - Scientific Papers: Free Access

Scholarly Paper 1

A Conceptual Framework for State-Based Regulation

Scholarly Paper 2

A Biological Architecture of Readiness for Change that Holds

Scholarly Paper 3

Recovery Dynamics as the Basis for Inferring Durable Change

Scholarly Paper 4

Biological Substrates of Change That Holds; Mechanistic Hypotheses

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