People.
Purpose.
Performance.

Overview

Matt is a Senior Well-Being Coach operating worldwide.

Focus

Matt works with exceptional humans who have or will have significant positive influence over vast numbers of people. His particular niche is what he calls “the inflexion point” - the tension and transition between Life 1 and Life 2.

Network

Matt has created MC², his global well-being network, connecting incredible humans across the world in a myriad of professions, industries, ages, and countries. He sits at the heart of this network, surrounded by a deep bench of other well-being coaches and emotionally intelligent individuals.

Platform

Matt has created his own digital well-being platform where network members can enter their Life 2 journeys for the future. Once accepted, members are connected with others and given more structure around the network's evolution.

Personal Background

Matt was born in Australia and has lived around the world, including Singapore, Japan, and Canada. He is now based in the south of New Zealand, at his property Edge of the World. Matt is an accomplished ultra-distance runner and lover of the well-being field. His passion is working on his own personal habits and energy, so he can better help others reach their potential.

Entrepreneurial Journey

Matt trained as an Accountant and first worked for Deloitte, before his career morphed into recruitment and search with Morgan & Banks and Hudson Global Resources. In 2008 he co-founded ChapmanCG, a global HR search firm, which became the no. 1 in its space in the world. Foreseeing a compromise on his future well-being, Matt sold ChapmanCG to Japanese-listed Will Group between 2019 and 2022. Overlapping with this journey, he co-founded global generalist recruitment firm Ethos BeathChapman, and background checking company Risk Management Intelligence (RMI). He also co-created Bawah Reserve, a luxury archipelago in the Anambas Islands of Indonesia, with Tim Hartnoll.

Life 2

After travelling to New Zealand for two close friends' wedding, Matt became fascinated with the country and bought Parihoa Farm, one of NZ's most amazing properties. From 2013 to his exit from ChapmanCG in 2022, he transformed it from a working farm to a well-being platform. Simultaneously he bought and created Edge of the World, his ultimate well-being property in the South of New Zealand. Life 2 for Matt involves living his best life around his well-being and being the best coach for his network.

Burnout and Recovery

Matt went through burnout between 2020 and 2024, and this saw him exit most of his projects and take a break. During this time he focused on his well-being and re-tuning his own purpose, to rediscover joy. Matt gives credit to this process for optimising his ability to help guide and facilitate transformational change in others wanting to redesign their lives.

What Does Coaching Involve?

A great coach is somewhat like a shepherd - guiding the coachee to achieve their own results, rather than lecturing or mentoring or advising. Matt has studied via Co-Active Coaching and is completing his International Coaching Federation (ICF) framework. Naturally, through his past work, Matt has coached thousands of global HR leaders. His style is highly trusted and well regarded, as he has always taken a long-term perspective.

Life 1 to Life 2

Matt describes Life 1 as everything before us that has made us who we are - our successes and our failures. Life 2 is everything ahead of us, and this path is based on assertive actions in the present. The intersecting lines of Life 1 and Life 2 collide to make what he describes as the metamorphosis, or our transformation point. This messy but exciting time is what he calls the inflexion point - and it is his area of focus.

Packages

Matt offers four packages: