EMPLOYEE: Tom Grundy (aka The Buddha of Banking)
POSITION: Daily Email Scribe and Transformative Coach
REVIEW PERIOD: 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025
NOTABLE 2025 ACHIEVEMENTS:
*** Sending 233 daily emails on topics like fulfilment, productivity, stress, the world of work, navigating the 9 to 5 and daily domestic life at Fort Grundy (Rating: Met Expectations)
*** Wrangling interviews for this newsletter with work/life/fulfilment heavyweights Paul Millerd, Khe Hy, Jenny Wood, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Simone Stolzoff and Ankush Jain (Rating: Exceeded Expectations)
*** Running 23 Mindset & Clarity workshops for my esteemed banking colleagues. A slight step down on the 30+ I ran last year
but the cool thing here was having colleagues I’d never met from teams I’d never heard of popping up out of the blue to ask me to run a workshop or speak at their offsite. Word around the watercoolers seems to be spreading... (Rating: Met Expectations)
*** 121 of my banking colleagues joined my in-house mental wellbeing forum, The Mindset & Clarity Beach
Bar (Rating: Exceeded Expectations)
*** Landed a place on a 15 month Executive Leadership Coaching Apprenticeship, generously sponsored by my employer (Rating: Exceeded Expectations)
*** Navigated first time
fatherhood and 3am poonamis alongside all the above (Rating: Exceeded Expectations)
So there we have it. My 2025 Performance Review.
There’s just one final part before I wrap up the year.
See, no performance review is complete without feedback from my key stakeholders.
I have two quick questions for you before I close the books on 2025:
*** What email from 2025 stuck with you or shifted something for you?
*** Are there any workplace challenges you'd like me to tackle in these emails in 2026?
Feel free to hit reply
and let me know. I'd genuinely love your feedback.
In the meantime, happy new year and here's to 2026. There's lots of exciting stuff on the way and you can bet your bottom dollar I'll be writing all about it in this newsletter.
To fulfilment,
Tom
p.s. this email inspired me to make a 2025 Highlights post on LinkedIn.
If you'd like to check out a few more highlights from my year and see photos of me in action (leading a workshop and rescuing Baby Grundy from a sticky situation), you can find the LinkedIn post right here