Fiona’s love of writing began at a young age and continued into her early years of high school. She was renowned for writing plays and cajoling her friends into performing them with her.
She commenced her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and became a qualified chartered accountant despite being told by a senior partner, ‘You are a very extroverted young lady. The personality of a chartered accountant lies within certain parameters and your personality does not fit within those parameters.’ Although grossly insulted at the time, she came to view this as quite a compliment.
Fiona gained post-graduate qualifications in marketing while working across the eastern seaboard of Australia and, internationally, as an ‘agent of change’ for companies such as GE Capital Finance, The Brisbane Lions and Wunderman Cato Johnson. Caught up in her career, she completely lost touch with her creative spirit.
‘…You are a very extroverted young lady. The personality of a chartered accountant lies within certain parameters and your personality does not fit within those parameters.’
Fast forward 20 years… on the advice of her ‘shrink’, she started to write her story to help her deal with the emotional aftermath of her journey through cancer. She rediscovered a deep and abiding passion for writing. She consequently decided to step off the merry-go-round of corporate life and set up her own consultancy.
She currently lives in on the Gold Coast and works with small to medium enterprises to minimise their growing pains.
Fiona is currently working on her second book A Risk of the Heart. Her blog focuses on the issues of dating as a forty-something single. It provides endless entertainment for both her married and single friends who vicariously live through her exploits and learn from them.
Her two favourite foods are ice-cream and chocolate.