• "Entrepreneurship was essentially all I knew because it was all I had seen. Every morning, my brother and I would start our day at the family business and end our day there after school."

  • "You can spend a lot of time contemplating the leap [OE], but my advice is to take it because professionally, personally, and life wise, it is the best gift you can give yourself. You will be outside your comfort zone, you will grow, and you will be immersed in new cultures"

  • "I realised what I truly loved about business was seeing the end to end. In consulting, advisory, or assurance, you are in and you're out of a client, not seeing the whole value chain."

  • "The last three roles that I’ve had were newly created roles. It shows that you can’t predict the future, and you never know what new opportunities might pop up today that didn’t exist yesterday. You must have the flexibility and agility to take a chance and go for something that isn’t prescribed on a map and make it your own."

  • "Innovation is key, specifically looking at opportunity spaces and problems to solve where Fonterra has a fundamental right to win."

  • "It is critical to grow your core, which usually accounts for 70-80% of growth."

  • "For growing the core, you know your business and markets well, but for extending or building a new core, you just don't know what you don't know, so you must use different levers."

  • "Dairy will continue to play a vital role in the global food system due to all the micro and macro nutrients naturally within milk."

  • "Every organisation has proprietary data and structuring that data to be useful for AI must be an organisation's superpower."

  • "Every market is very different. Innovating in China requires an extremely different approach compared to how you would innovate in the United States, Europe, Japan, or Korea, for example."

  • "To innovate well, you must create the right culture - one that fosters creativity, psychological safety, and growth. Culture is everything."

  • "I would say when you are in the thick of a difficult situation, you feel it is a lowlight, however when I look back, they are often the most pivotal moments of either learning, growth, or changing direction. They needed to happen."

  • "I was actually the first person on the Fonterra executive team to have a child while in the role. In hindsight, it has made me that much stronger and more effective as a leader as it forced me to understand my boundaries and the most critical element: time."

  • "My advice for anyone wanting to get into governance is that it must be aligned to your mission. If it genuinely aligns, you’ll find a way to make it work; otherwise, it will quickly become a task."

  • "The braver you are, the luckier you will get."

  • "I may be doing different things or have lived in different places, but what I stand for and believe in hasn't changed and probably won't change."

  • "Regardless of what you do, baseline financial acumen is critical and will really serve you."

  • "The only limitation to what is possible is your mindset."