Eight years ago I made a high-stakes career change. It felt like stepping off a cliff, it felt like madness — one of the gutsiest decisi…

Helen Wiseman is an experienced non-executive director and audit committee chair for national and internationally listed companies, including with boards listed on the ASX and the JSE. She is a chief executive mentor, with 30 years of business and leadership experience; a chair and facilitator for a peer group of chief executives at The Executive Connection; and co-founder of Imalia, an online financial and insurance services business.