Coaching with world of insights
JEM Fuller is set to make another turn in an unconventional life journey that has armed him with a valued perspective on relationships and mindful leadership.
The Aireys Inlet leadership coach was one of the featured speakers at last month’s Small Business Festival in Geelong, having previously been engaged to work with some of the city’s leading businesses and non-for-profit organisations to help create and foster effective workplace cultures.
An associate with the Geelong Consulting Group, Mr Fuller also has his own company, Leaders In Life, through which he has channelled his non-for-profit endeavours. He also runs his own leadership development programs in the remote Indian Himalaya, Bali and the Kimberley in Western Australia.
Now he is about to launch his new “keynote speaker brand”, JemFuller.com.
“I will be talking on what I am most passionate about: healthy human progress through authentic relationships and connection, robust and vibrant workplace culture, and more mindful and conscious leadership,” Mr Fuller said.
Admittedly nonconformist, he has reached this point powered by a lifelong determination to follow his own path.
Through his 20s and early 30s, Mr Fuller was either immersing himself in Third World countries, or earning money somewhere to continue journeying.
He said he ventured into “colourful and alternative subcultures around the world” spending extended periods living outdoors, cooking on fires and disappearing into various backwaters.
“My working pursuits ranged from actor to singersongwriter, tattooist to motorcycle courier, teacher in Taiwan to volunteer in Bangladesh,” he said.
“Through it all was a thirst to understand this human experience and how it all weaves together.”
He “settled down” to start a family in his 30s and spent the best part of a decade at Flight Centre, rising to a senior leadership role when he was introduced to coaching, human behavioural profiling and neuro-linguistic programming.
Mr Fuller said he eventually recognised that in continually trying to drive growth and justify his own position, he lost sight of what really mattered.
At the start of 2013, he left his well-paid job and studied to enable him to start his own coaching practice, which has has operated for five years.