Quick Snapshot
I’ve spent my life navigating change — living in 12 countries, working across 40 more, and a career shaped by movement and momentum.
My early career in the telecommunications industry positioned me at the center of evolving global markets.
I then led an international venture consulting practice in the transportation and aviation industry, raising over $60 million for companies on the edge of innovation.
Today, I'm the founder of Agilism – a growing movement built around how we adapt – and CEO of Midlennial Ventures, which includes the online media and learning platform, The Interlude Café.
My work explores the intersection of change, longevity, and human adaptability. It's about rethinking how we live, learn, and evolve in an increasingly nonlinear and complex world.
What follows is the story behind Agilism and the path that brought me here.
The Story Behind Agilism
I used to think that reaching midlife was about optimization — retire early, travel, declutter, chill.
But when I got to midlife, after building companies, exiting, and burning out, I discovered something I never expected.
I wasn’t done!
The old life model of education-career-retirement felt too narrow for me. I still had things to build, ideas to shape, and a quieter kind of ambition that didn’t fit the traditional script.
So I stepped back from the world I’d built — the work, the systems, the expectations — and began designing something different.
The seed for that reflection had been planted years earlier, after a near-death experience in Iceland that forced me to rethink our assumptions about the level of control we have over our lives – on the nature of randomness, and risk.
In the stillness that followed, the first ideas behind Agilism began to take shape.
That reflection Agilism – a philosophy for thriving in change rather than just surviving it.
It’s what I wish I’d had when I was a younger man, and what I still use today to navigate our increasingly nonlinear world with clarity, grit, and calm.
A Life Shaped by Movement
Before Agilism had a name, movement was already my default setting.
For the best part of three decades, I've called 12 countries home and collaborated with teams in another 40—beginning with early telecommunications roles at Nortel and Atos, then spending two decades building an international venture consulting practice in transport and aviation.
This global experience taught me lessons no MBA curriculum could capture: every market, every culture, every transition fundamentally rewires how we interpret the world.
Adaptability isn't corporate speak—it's an essential survival trait.
When you inhabit a state of constant flux, something shifts in your perspective.
Change stops feeling like disruption and starts revealing itself as data. You learn to read the patterns beneath uncertainty, to find momentum within the apparent chaos of navigating change.
That understanding became the foundation for everything that followed.
The Turning Point
A couple of years ago, I reached a point where success no longer meant satisfaction.
After years of scaling companies and projects, I wanted to scale something else: clarity.
So I stepped back. Slowed down. Walked. Wrote.
For a while, it looked like retirement — until it didn't.
What I needed wasn't rest. It was renewal.
The search became Agilism: a philosophy for designing adaptive lives when traditional models of success and control no longer serve us. It emerged from recognizing that our relationship with change needed a massive overhaul.
Then the Covid-19 pandemic arrived – a collective transition that revealed how brittle our old frameworks really were.
I watched as random events upended entire trajectories, observing how some people found their footing while others remained paralyzed by uncertainty. Those months proved Agilism's principles in ways I never could have planned.
That validation led to Midlennial Ventures, built on a simple premise: if life is now longer and more nonlinear, we need better navigation tools.
Its flagship project, The Interlude Café, grows from this same insight – creating spaces for people over 45 who no longer subscribe to the traditional education-career-retirement narrative.
I'm not here to hustle. I'm not selling peak performance. I'm building something real. Something sustainable. Something for the long arc.
This is my reinvention—not driven by external pressure to prove anything, but by an internal compass I couldn't ignore: the quiet certainty that I wasn't finished yet.
And perhaps, in your own moments of transition and renewal, neither are you.
From Practice to Philosophy
Agilism grew out of lived experience — the messy, unscripted kind.
It distills what I've learned from decades of navigating complexity and change into 21 principles across five dimensions:
Lifestyle Design, Navigating Uncertainty, Reframing Your Thinking, Emotional Flexibility, and Goal Dynamics.
The principles didn't appear overnight.
They evolved from years of journaling, observation, and iteration — first in the international arena, amidst wildly different cultural norms and practices, then in the venture world, where uncertainty shaped every outcome, and later through the pandemic, which laid bare just how brittle our systems of control had become.
What began as personal notes scribbled in airport lounges slowly matured into a structured philosophy for adaptive living — a compass for an age defined by nonlinearity and complexity.
If you're new to the framework, start here:
- [About Agilism] → the philosophical foundation
- [Change 3.0 Manifesto] → why our old models of control no longer work
- [Agilism Content Hub] → the interactive library where the 21 principles live
Each page builds on the same idea:
Change is not the enemy. Rigidity is.
Beyond Agilism
When I'm not speaking and writing about Agilism, I am also the founder and CEO of Midlennial Ventures, a holding company focused on transforming the longevity economy through media, learning, and technology.
Its flagship project, The Interlude Café, helps adults aged 45 and above design meaningful and creative second lives.
In parallel, I advise and mentor high-growth ventures in the longevity and learning sectors, guiding founders to build adaptive systems rather than brittle strategies.
Beyond my work in business, I write about nonlinear transitions, future resilience, and the psychology of reinvention—all through the lens of Agilism.
Here are a few essay ideas you might see from me soon:
- “The Myth of the Second Act” — exploring why midlife reinvention is truly about evolution.
- “Why Linear Thinking Fails in a Nonlinear World.”
- “The End of Peak Performance—and the Rise of Sustainable Ambition.”
A Few Human Details
Languages: I speak four fluently — and a fifth, if you count the occasional well-placed curse.
Nature: I grew up caught between sea and mountains. Snow, mountains, and the silence of nature reset my mind faster than any digital detox. That landscape still serves as my compass for clarity.
Curiosity: I've always been drawn to linguistics, geology, and the hidden patterns that govern systems — fascinated by how the world layers meaning beneath the surface we see.
Family: I'm a father to two grown-up sons. My favorite WhatsApp group buzzes with four brothers, four sisters, and thirty-six cousins — living proof that chaos, when rooted in human connection, becomes its own kind of harmony.
Favourite Pubs: Mulligans in Dublin, The Clacaigh Inn in Glencoe, The Old Forge.
Education: I earned a BA (Hons) from University College Dublin and a European Masters in Management from ESCP Europe, the world’s oldest business school. I also hold additional diplomas from Paris (Diplôme de Grande École) and Berlin (Diplom Kaufmann).
Where to Go Next
Explore the full Agilism framework →
Visit the full library of articles →
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If you’d like to explore Agilism further or learn more about my projects:
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- Download: Access the free eBook — The 21 Principles of Agilism.
- Collaborate: Reach out for speaking engagements, workshops, or advisory opportunities.
- Follow: Connect with me on LinkedIn for professional updates and reflections.
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