After discovering a gap in the tertiary education system more than 10 years ago, Ehssan resigned from a successful technical academic role to dedicate his life to people development in technical organisations and universities. The discovery sparked a desire to integrate his extensive engineering knowledge and experience with evidence and experience-based human factors critical to performance, effectiveness and wellbeing. With renewed passion and purpose, he developed and facilitated the first student leadership program at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Engineering that bridged the gap. He also developed and delivered leadership subjects for engineers and project managers at the University of Sydney, UCLA Extension and Osaka University in Japan.

Ehssan has earned a reputation among some of the world’s leading organisations and universities for his depth of understanding and knowledge around the challenges they face, particularly in relation to keeping engineering and technical professionals and teams engaged, fulfilled, effective and productive. Examples of the organisations and educational institutions he has supported include 3M in Australia, Engineers Australia, NTT Data Corporation in Japan, the University of California, Sydney University, the University of Technology, Sydney and Osaka University.

Aside from his professional pursuits, Ehssan is a talented cartoonist who enjoys writing and illustrating books and articles on wellbeing, effectiveness and engagement. He also loves spending time in nature.