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Having spent most of my life as a senior executive with organisations like Johnson and Johnson and AT Kearney, my life hit a seemingly insurmountable roadblock in 2000, when I was diagnosed with severe depression. Five years and numerous hard setbacks later, I emerged not only with the bestselling book BACK FROM THE BRINK, but also with a new attitude towards the traditional ways that companies and individuals approach setbacks.

My second book BACK FROM THE BRINK TOO, won a National Mental Health Award, and I am also the author of the report “Best Practice in Managing Mental Health in the Workplace”. I am a Director of RUOK? Day and the creator of the hugely successful RUOK? at Work program.

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Why Forgiving Failure Can Improve Your Success

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt


For many of us, our natural instinct when we fail at something big or small is to launch into relentless self-criticism.


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