Carla Taylor

I was a CEO managing 3,500 staff across 130 sites when the diagnosis arrived. Stage IV cancer doesn't care about your strategic plan, your board commitments, or the fact that you're mid-way through the most complex restructure your organisation has ever attempted. It simply interrupts.

When I returned to the C-suite, I expected the challenge to be physical — managing fatigue, rebuilding stamina, getting back to speed. What I didn't expect was to find myself on the organisation's risk register. Not because of performance failure, but because I had survived stage IV cancer and someone had to account for the possibility that I might not stay well.

That moment changed everything. It gave me a lens that most leadership frameworks don't account for — the cut-through-the-crap clarity that only comes from having your professional identity stripped back to the studs and rebuilt from what actually survived.

Then COVID arrived. And suddenly the entire world was living under the conditions I'd already adapted to — uncertainty, disruption, the collapse of assumptions about what "normal" looks like. The deja vu was surreal. The digital acceleration that followed only deepened it.

MTMOT — Make The Most Of Today — exists because I discovered that these two experiences are not as different as they appear. Whether you're rebuilding after illness or navigating the AI shift that's reshaping every industry, the core question is the same: do I still have what it takes in this world?

The answer is yes. And everything here is built to help you prove it — to yourself first and foremost.