At Krauthammer, I led a team, managed the sales academy, delivered training, and oversaw sales. On paper, I was fully in control. In reality, my Heart Brain was working overtime trying to please everyone, while my Gut Brain was working to keep everything from unravelling. My external strength — playing water polo and being physically fit — masked the internal reality.

The burnout arrived when personal and professional pressures collided: going through a divorce, raising three young children, leading a team, and serving as club chairman — simultaneously. The collapse forced a fundamental question: I thought I knew what was healthy, so what am I missing? 

The breakdown led to an investigation that went far beyond coaching theory. I began studying Haptonomy, NLP, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Somatic Therapy, Psychotherapy, and energy-healing modalities, not as academic exercises, but as practical tools to understand why some patterns survive rational understanding entirely.

After leaving Krauthammer and having had my own business for 5 years,  I emigrated to Australia, where I worked besides as a business coach, as a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist, addressing severe issues — sexual abuse, PTSD, depression, anxiety — in cases where conventional approaches had repeatedly failed.

An encounter with Peter Levine's somatic work on overcoming PTSD and the research of Paul Ivan Yakolev, Dr Michael D. Gershon, and HeartMath gave him the scientific framework that matched what he was observing clinically: 3 distinct neural networks, each with its own intelligence, memory, and motivation.

COVID ended my life in Australia. I took the last flight out before borders closed for two years. I relocated to Spain to live with my partner, and I used the period to formalise what had been developing for a decade: the 3 Brains Intelligence™ methodology, grounded in more than 5,650 real assessments and aligned with ICF standards.

The core insight: we don't have 1 brain, we have 3. The Head Brain handles logic, analysis, and cause-and-effect. The Heart Brain manages emotional memory, connection, and values. The Gut Brain governs instinct, survival, and identity.

When these 3 are misaligned, sustainable change is biologically impossible — regardless of insight, willpower, or repetition.

The heart surgery, and a shift in how the work is held, in 2024, a genetic condition nearly ended everything. A heart valve had narrowed dramatically, and surgery was performed in Spain. A new valve and my years of Olympic triathlon training and water polo likely preserved enough physical resilience to survive long enough for the procedure.

"I now see my work as something I am still here to complete."

I  envision the 3 Brains Intelligence framework becoming a foundational approach to decision-making and leadership over the next decade.

"My big dream is to inspire individual transformation by aligning the Head, Heart, and Gut."

I am a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Qatar, where the 3 Brains methodology is integrated into courses on leadership, organisational behaviour, and personal development.

The framework has now reached over 13,000 professionals across 42 countries and more than 200 companies globally.