CHAPTER 2

The Winding Road of My Middle Career Years

From London to Monaco, Then Back Home to Toronto

After a couple of years working at the National Youth Theatre, a coincidental meeting with a former colleague from Canada, took my career full circle back into the banking world. I went to pitch a corporate sponsorship opportunity for the charity at a tier-1 private bank in London where I bumped into a colleague I worked with in Toronto after my MBA. He was interested in what I was doing and curious about my day-to-day activities. We met several times to discuss this, and I hadn’t realized this at the time, but I was discretely being assessed for transferability of skills and the potential to succeed in a new intake program that was being introduced ...

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