My Background
I am 1/2 British from my mum’s side and 1/2 Iranian from my dad’s side. I come from a diverse multi-ethnic background. Born with an eye defect to glance without moving my head. I have learnt to overcome this.
We left the UK to go to Iran when I was 3 during the revolution. We could not leave Iran and had to live four years during the Iran-Iraq war. During the war period, bombs causing fatalities were common. I nearly died as a child after an accident, cutting my main wrist vein. Having an operation without anaesthetic at 5 years old during the war. I will not forget and a lifetime scar on my wrist to remind me. I almost drowned after sinking to the bottom of an unattended pool.
Coming back to England, not being able to speak English and missing early schooling. Starting off life far behind in many ways to begin and came from nothing. I went to a state secondary school. At the start I was always in trouble with detentions and put into the bottom sets. Labelled as someone, who would not amount to much by teachers.
I went on to secure three good A-levels and a law degree at Brunel University. I only managed to do so via a hardship grant. At 15, my mother had a stroke, losing partially her sight in one eye. My dad lost his business, and we lost our family home all at the same time. My mum has suffered bouts of deep depression throughout my life. I understand that Life can throw up many things. I know how to reverse engineer this into happiness and overcome.
I am 1/2 British from my mum’s side and 1/2 Iranian from my dad’s side. I come from a diverse multi-ethnic background, I was born with an eye defect, the nerves in one of my eyes do not move upon glancing, otherwise they are perfect.
We left the UK to go to Iran, when I was 3 years old, the Iranian revolution happened, we were stuck in Iran and had to live four years during the Iran-Iraq war. During the war period, bombs causing fatalities within our neighbourhood were common. I also nearly died as a child after an accident, which cut one of my main veins in my wrist, having an operation without anaesthetic at 5 years old during the war period in Iran, was something I will never forget and a lifetime scar on my wrist to remind me. On top of that nearly drowning after sinking to the bottom of an unattended private pool.
I came back to England, not being able to speak English, missing my infants schooling, starting off life far behind in many ways to begin and came from nothing. I went to a state secondary school, in which at the start I was always in trouble with detentions and put into the bottom sets. Labelled as someone, who would never amount to much by teachers.
I went on to secure three good A-level’s and a law degree at Brunel University, via a hardship grant. At 15, my mother had a stroke, losing partially her sight in one eye, my dad lost his business and lost our family home. My mum has suffered bouts of deep depression throughout my life. I understand what life can throw up but more importantly how to reverse engineer this into happiness no matter what.
I have developed a successful career within headhunting worldwide for 26 years. At the top of my profession, I was making an impact. I decided to give up corporate and become my own boss. I wanted to pilot my own destiny. I founded my own company in 2008 by emigrating to the UAE. Taking place during a global financial crash crisis, and still succeeding.
Life is about having a “bouncy bum” and getting back up. I have not looked back since. I do not want to be the richest man in the graveyard. Success is more multi-faceted than that. It is to be successful on all levels of life. I wanted to gain freedom and influence the outcomes favourably. I help to do this for my clients to have successes in every sense.
I wanted to become the very best & most complete Accountability & Careers Coach.
I wanted to become the very best and most complete Accountability & Careers Coach. I want to make a real difference to my clients, who want to achieve, be truly success, to overcome adversity, life challenges, or overcome labelling, to believe in yourself (you are awesome), positive mental thinking and to realise your full potential. You can have almost anything you want in your life, it is a question of mindset and execution.