by ITM | Oct 15, 2026 | Diary of an Actuary, Empowered Evolution
I became President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in June 2016. The institution was already more than 160 years old. I was its youngest president, the first to be based outside the United Kingdom, and the first person of colour to hold the role. The...
by ITM | Dec 4, 2025 | Career Coaching, Diary of an Actuary, Empowered Evolution, Uncategorized
As the year comes to an end, you may notice changes in yourself that are difficult to ignore. What once felt familiar begins to feel slightly distant. Activities that used to motivate you no longer hold the same pull. Conversations that were once effortless now feel...
by ITM | Nov 4, 2025 | Career Coaching, Diary of an Actuary, Empowered Evolution
You read the book, you journal, you do the work your way, you feel the shift, then Monday arrives or something triggers you, and the old patterns return. Insight is real, but it can be fragile once the world begins to move again. Real empowerment isn’t found in...
by ITM | Oct 28, 2025 | Career Coaching, Empowered Evolution
After a season of rebuilding and big change, life can suddenly fall quiet. The adrenaline that carried you through decisions and upheaval fades, leaving a stillness that feels both peaceful and strange. For a while, everything slows. You start to notice what is gone,...
by ITM | Aug 31, 2020 | Diary of an Actuary, Uncategorized
In so many of my personal coaching conversations it strikes me how many life goals and dreams bear little relation to what is occupying clients’ lives today. For some, their current occupations are a necessary and deliberate means to an end and for others, these...