There was a time when Matty Dixon would uncover himself routinely breaking down in tears on his drive to operate. Until finally a run of accidents, he had juggled engineering roles at energy services business Petrofac with a parallel profession enjoying rugby for Aberdeen Grammar in the Scottish Premiership. Then slipped discs pressured his early retirement from the game in 2014.
Dixon lost his perception of reason. “I was having difficulties with melancholy,” he says, but mainly because of “toxic masculinity” he would explain to himself to “just man up”. Eventually, he realised that he had to “deal with my challenges or it was lights out — I prepared my suicide”.
In 2017, he applied to the MBA at London Small business School to uncover a new