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Andy Sheats

Andy Sheats

CTO Coach and executive mentor based in Melbourne with 30+ years in digital business leadership as CTO, CEO, and founder; former head of technology at Open Universities Australia.

Jul 6, 2026

27:00
Is that correct? And then you built from there.
27:03
Yeah, I mean, I'll start, I'll back up just a little bit.
27:05
You know, through my early 50s, I was actually attracted to doing more skiing and the coaching, none of that even registered.
27:14
It was actually, how do I quit my job and go hiking in the Himalayas for three months at a time? Coming out of COVID, the company that I worked at, you mentioned earlier, Open University of Australia, they had a series of workshops that, how would we reemerge from COVID? Ironically, right after the workshop, we locked down again.
27:30
But the facilitator there was actually really good.
27:33
He asked this question that was magic for me.
27:35
It was, can you describe your perfect average day? Not your perfect day, which is unachievable.
31:03
And so my second question is, now that you're working with CTOs, how obvious is it to you now that that experience you have is so valuable?

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