Andrew Speaks

He’s also learned in his coaching of young and old men alike that the same struggle pertains for those who did not know their fathers.  Many who have met them have simply had to accept that is who they were, or are, in order to move on. Letting go of expectations and the drive to ‘do better than they did’ in favour of being yourself is one of Andrew’s key learnings in this presentation.

Whilst there are still too few women at the executive level things are changing at the middle management level.  Globally, more women than men graduate University.  More women are delaying child birth or giving it up altogether to pursue careers and the behaviours that are required for success are changing.  Andrew shares how he’s grappled, and succeeded, with being a ‘man’s man’ at home and at work, as culture increasingly shifts to being a woman’s world.  He focuses on getting the balance right, as someone with 3 daughters he’s grateful for the shifts in society that allowed them to pursue their dreams, whether that was a career or as a homemaker/mother.  He also hopes that the same balance will be given to men…not all men are sexist pigs, even if they do hold ‘traditional values’!

He’s also learned in his coaching of young and old men alike that the same struggle pertains for those who did not know their fathers.  Many who have met them have simply had to accept that is who they were, or are, in order to move on. Letting go of expectations and the drive to ‘do better than they did’ in favour of being yourself is one of Andrew’s key learnings in this presentation.

Andrew shares the learnings from his own experiences of the big 3 following his divorce and the difficulty many men face of suddenly becoming a second class citizen to your children as they remain living with Mum; death as he dealt with his emotions concerning the death of his ex-wife whom he’d know from childhood, and Debt, how this impacted his second marriage but through faith and developing new behaviours towards money they were able to get out from underneath.