A happiness hacker, international
speaker, yoga teacher, author and recovering perfectionist on a quest to teach 10 million humans by 2025 how to build mental wealth.
I’m a former executive turned Happiness Hacker, who was voted one of the most influential female entrepreneurs in Australia.
I started out as a country girl. At 18 I moved to the city to pursue the ideal of success I’d been told would make me happy. I secured the dream corporate position in a global giant, climbed the ladder, and lived what appeared to be the perfect life from the outside looking in. That all worked well until at the age of 39 I found myself feeling burnt out and soulless.
When I stepped back and asked myself “what would happiness look like on my terms?” I quickly realised that what I had created was someone else’s definition of success, not my own.
Happiness for me was found in human connection, positively impacting the lives of others, being present and in the moment and sharing experiences (all the things that had been sidelined by my ‘busyness’).
I leaned into uncertainty and turned my whole life upside down in the pursuit of happiness. Within a seven-month period I left a 16-year career as an executive (at the top of my game), relocated my family from Perth back to Melbourne, left an 18-year relationship and started my own purpose driven company HackingHappy.co.
I became obsessed with understanding why so many of us are unhappy and how I could create a toolkit that enabled millions to realise the happiness they deserve.
It was out of this drive that I developed the Intentional Adaptability Quotient® (IAQ). A world-first measurement tool and education program that decodes and enables the skills required to not only navigate but thrive in complex and uncertain change.
With over 20 years’ experience in enabling adaptability my life’s work is dedicated to teaching people to navigate uncertainty from a place of intention and balance rather than from a place of fear.
I work with governments, corporations and educators to build a more intentionally adaptable society.
Some of my clients include…
One of the questions I am most often asked is how did I take the first step into hacking my own happiness?
The answer is I surrounded myself with a tribe of unlike minds, people who challenged me to look at the world through a different lens, who were supportive, imperfect and driven in their pursuit of living their happiest lives. This tribe is now known as the Hacking Happiness Collective.
