Our Founder
TWO WORLDS ONE PHILOSOPHY.
I've spent much of my life operating in two very different environments.
The dojo and the boardroom.
The dojo taught me about pressure physically and the boardroom taught me about pressure professionally.
Over decades of martial arts training, I learned that strength alone rarely determines the outcome. The position matters, timing matters, awareness matters, composure matters and when something doesn't work, adaptability matters.
My career in business repeatedly taught me exactly the same lessons. I have built, led and advised businesses and worked with founders and executives facing the realities of leadership, uncertainty, responsibility, difficult decisions and the pressure to perform.
Eventually I realised that the most valuable lessons martial arts had given me weren't techniques, they were ways of thinking, responding and living.
That's why I created this business, not to teach executives karate and not to dress conventional business consulting in martial arts language. But to take principles that have been tested under genuine pressure and use them to help other people become stronger, more confident and more capable.
This is because you can't control everything life, leadership or business puts in front of you.
But you can train how you respond.
John Roberts
Founder
*Martial arts experience:
Full contact Karate 2003-present (Ashihara Kaikan, Sabaki-Do, Kaika Suru, Kyokushin)
Kickboxing/Muay Thai 2003-present
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu 2018-present
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