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I have lived in the Amazon and in the park in Athens, on the Left Bank in Paris and in old Covent Garden, in squats full of friends and penthouses full of taste. Nowadays I live by lake Saimaa, in Finland and besides the Royal Park, in Greenwich.

I have worked as mentor to a Mayor in Finland, and as a facilitator in a plant in Russia, I have mediated C-level disputes and counselled victims of crime. I have worked on inner city streets with disaffected youth, I have built schools, hospitals and out of town shopping malls. I have mentored a hospital professor and advised international banks. I have worked as a carpenter alongside bricklayers, led teams of city lawyers and stirred psychologists to action. I have lived on the dole, and I have worked from a corner office looking out over London's Hyde Park.

But by far the most worthwhile thing I have ever been was the support for my wife Tarja in her three year battle with cancer. And by far the best thing I have ever done has been to be the stepfather and guardian to her two teenage daughters when we lost.

I am now a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, an Associate of the Coaching Academy, and sponsored as an Affiliate of the British Psychological Society.