I have lived three careers and followed one question through all of them: what makes us human, and what could we become?

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For more than two decades I was a computer engineer: AI systems engineer, CTO of a New Zealand software start-up, and business performance and quality consultant, working in California, Texas, Singapore, New Zealand and across Europe. I hold an academic background in computer science and business administration. My first book, on quality management in IT, was published by Hanser in Munich.

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My second career took me into meaning-oriented psychology. After years of training in psychotherapy, body therapy and coaching, I became a trainer, lecturer and mentor for human development, drawing on humanistic psychotherapy, Viktor Frankl's search for meaning, systems thinking, Spiral Dynamics and systemic coaching.

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Today I write novels and poems about humanity, faith and progress. I was desperate about the fact that humans haven't really evolved since becoming human: we are still egocentric beings driven by our survival instincts, unable to solve the great challenges of our time together. Fiction is where I ask what could change that.

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I am a spiritual agnostic with some experience of Buddhist retreats, and I love cooking, cycling and sailing. I live in Hamburg and Alicante.