Two themes that have recurred through my life are the integration of different worldviews and the pursuit of a meaningful and purposeful life.

The holding of multiple perspectives was perhaps baked into my DNA, being of mixed-race Indian and Chinese descent, but raised in Canada after my parents (both schoolteachers) moved from Singapore to an Indigenous village in Northern British Columbia. As a child, I loved computers but also lay in my bed contemplating the nature of existence. By my late twenties, it was perhaps no surprise that I was building software at Microsoft by day and studying/practicing/teaching Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of meditation master Geshe Kelsang Gyatso on evenings and weekends.

Fast forward a decade and I had a successful career in engineering leadership at Microsoft. Yet I was called to change course and create a mindfulness program to support the company's culture change around growth mindset. I jumped into a Master's degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University to add a secular and neuroscientific perspective to my classical Buddhist studies. The success of the Mindful Growth 6-week program that I created propelled an unconventional career shift into HR, leading development of learning & development programs for employees.

The next chapter called me to leave Microsoft after 20 years and dive into the latest worldview to capture my interest - depth psychology. I enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Jungian and Archetypal Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute where I am currently writing dissertation. These years also involved a profound unraveling of everything I thought I knew, and the dissolution and rebuilding of many parts of my inner and outer life. These are just a few threads that inform my vocational work. I am also a proud father of two teenage daughters, lucky dog dad, re-energized musician, and amateur wilderness explorer. Perhaps it is the breadth of perspectives that I try to hold that make it hard for me to apply labels to myself, but regardless of what part of my story resonates, I hope that I can be of service to you.

In my role as consultant, I want to combine my experience in corporate leadership with my psychological and spiritual training to help bring deep cultural transformation to organizations. I believe that there are a growing number of leaders and teams who recognize that the future of their organizations must integrate concepts like purpose, values, empathy, growth mindset, and mindfulness into their culture via the world-class programs from The Mindful Leader. They recognize that it is not just the "right thing to do" but that this shift is also indispensable to long-term business performance. They know that truly transforming their organizations takes courage and commitment, and that change starts with them. If you are that type of leader or team member, I invite you to click here.

In my role as scholar and author, I am deep in a writing project that aims to show how healing the spirit/matter divide requires that we transforming our worldview to include the reality of a third realm: the imaginal. To make that case, and to make it practical, I will be drawing from the work of Henry Corbin as a scholar of Islamic mysticism, practices from the Tibetan Tantric school of Buddhism, and the symbolic and mythic imaginations of Jungian and archetypal psychology. I look forward to sharing more about this work as it unfolds.