Who you are dealing with
Trained to design, built to operate
I studied multimedia design at RMIT, went through Limkokwing as a student and returned as a principal lecturer, then took an MBA at Birmingham City University once I had enough scar tissue for the theory to mean anything.
What I actually do has stayed the same across every industry I have touched. Walk into an operation, work out which part is quietly bleeding, rebuild that part, then stay long enough to run it properly. Fleets in Manila, brands in Kuala Lumpur, a film set, a room full of executives. Same job, different vocabulary.
The creative work is not a hobby I keep on the side. Directing taught me how to hold a hundred moving parts and a deadline in the same head, which turns out to be most of what running a company is.