Meet Darshana

I've been a competitive swimmer since I was nine. My early relationship with the breath was shaped by performance: rhythm, endurance, control and recovery.

That relationship carried me through more than two decades of international business, leadership and entrepreneurship. I've lived and worked in five countries and travelled to close to a hundred, building a career shaped by different cultures, industries and ways of working.

Much of that career has been in supply chain and logistics, where I've led businesses, large teams and complex global portfolios. Today, I lead the global high-tech business of a major logistics group, working with companies at the forefront of the infrastructure powering an AI-driven world. Alongside this, I work with Singapore's business community and government on leadership development, contributing to initiatives that prepare leaders to navigate complexity and change.

I've also built something of my own. I co-founded a school in India inspired by Norwegian pedagogy and built it from the ground up, an experience that shaped how I think about leadership, learning and creating something from an idea.

There came a point in my life when capability and perseverance alone were no longer enough for me. Breathwork offered me a different way of understanding myself, one that went beyond performance and the instinct to keep going. It changed my understanding of the breath and opened up a wider inquiry into how we experience our lives, what shapes our responses and how much of ourselves we bring to the way we live and work.

I have trained in conscious connected breathwork with Alchemy of Breath, and alongside this, my work with leaders, teams and learning communities continues to shape how I think about human capacity and the influence we have on others.

Fifth Field grew from where these experiences meet. In business, in building, in sport and in my own life, I keep returning to the same question:

What becomes possible when we understand ourselves more deeply and learn to meet life more intentionally?

That is the perspective I bring to the work at Fifth Field. I am based in Singapore and work with individuals, organisations and learning communities locally and internationally.