Who We Are continued, Credentials on Paper, 
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Education (the ego's list)  

• Masters of Business Administration, graduation within top 5 of class (Arjay Miller Scholar), 1995 from Stanford University in California, USA

• Masters of Arts, Political Science, 1990 from the University of New South Wales, Sydney

• Bachelors of Science, with honours both in Biology and History, graduating in the top 1% of the class, 1989, from Duke University, North Carolina, USA--an A.B. Duke Scholar

• Two-year graduate diploma from Jansen Newman Institute, graduating in 2008

• Accredited in Levels 1 and 2 of the Institute of Executive Coaching

• Accredited in the psychometrics of Myers Briggs, FIRO-B, CPI 260, Benchmarks 360, Human Synergistics'  Lifestyles Inventory (LSI), Leadership Impact, Organisational Culture Inventory (OCI), Organisational Effectiveness Inventory, Group Styles Inventory

The fun stuff (in which some might say the real education takes place)

• Greatest adventure, Sailing our 32 foot sailboat, Moonpenny, to the Solomon Islands from Australia in 1995 (a 12-day sail in 40 knot winds)

• Favourite fiction, Shantaram,  by Gregory David Roberts, and anything by John Irving and Bruce Courtenay

• Favourite non-fiction, A Course in Miracles; Power vs. Force, by David Hawkins;
  Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth GIlbert

• Favourite music, Anything by the Indigo Girls or Joan Armatrading 

• Favourite sports hero, The Australian swimmer Susie O'Neil, whom I witnessed breaking the 200 meter butterfly world record in May 2000.  This was a record that had stood for 19 years from 1981 when American Mary T Meagher broke it.  The 19-year-old record was the oldest record in international swimming. My event was also the 200 meter butterfly, which I swam for 15 years competitively (considerably slower than Susie and Mary T ! )

• Family, Daughter Kate (10 years) and son Geoffrey (6 years)

• Interests, Buddhist study under Sogyal Rinpoche, the author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying , study of the new thought paradigms in emotional and soul intelligence, running, bushwalking, scuba diving, and meditation