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Blind (3% vision) Paralympian, 3x World Champ Surfer, World Champ cyclist, previous World Record holder, speaker, executive coach & family man

I was born with full vision but lost 95% of my vision when I was five. The doctors and my teachers said I had to leave my main stream school and go to a school for people with disabilities, they said I would never play sport and they said any career aspirations were basically over. My parents kept me in the main stream school, they enrolled me in sport and instead of saying Matt can’t do that, we said, let’s try it and if Matt can’t do it then let’s find plan B. We never really had to look at plan B as with a desire to achieve, a desire to prove I was not disabled and a lot of Aussie mongrel we found a way.  

I’ve now been a professional athlete for over a decade, I’ve been fortunate enough o be sponsored by some of the biggest global logo’s in sport. Despite being blind, I’ve allways had a clear focus on my goals and my why. As a cyclist my why was to prove to myself and the world that with the right mindset, behaviours and work ethic you can become a world beater. My why in surfing is because I absolutely love everythng about surfing and to be able to comete in the sport that I love is an absolute bonus.

As an athlete, speaker and executive coach, I’ve worked with some of the largest Australian and global buseinss’s including Hewlet Packard, Tesla, . Garmin, Westpac Bank, Shimano, Pepsi co, Billabongg, Lendlease and Optus. I’m currrently the Chair of the Macquarie Business Park Community Partnership and an Executive Board Member of Blind Sports NSW. I love my day job which is heading up Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility for Optus Enterprise. I’ve had a very exciting and had a very wide experience base to draw from and thrive on the opportunity to help others.