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Hi, I'm Ewan Blyth


Impact Entrepreneur, Investor in Change  & Walking the Wilder Path 

01   THE EXPECTED PATH   


HE FOLLOWED IT.

FOR A WHILE.

Engineering degree. 

International consulting. 

Leading design teams on major infrastructure projects across India and Southeast Asia. The credentials were real and the work was genuinely challenging.

But competence without purpose has a ceiling — and a voice I'd been ignoring for years grew too loud to push back down.

So I left. 

Not recklessly. Deliberately. 

That decision began years of purposeful exploration that took me from boardrooms in Kuala Lumpur to the earth's furthest edges.  Literally.

02   Time in the wilderness   

cold places.

it turns out.

After retraining and upskilling, I found myself leading guests into the world's most remote environments. Antarctica. The High Arctic. Remote Pacific islands. 

For over a decade, I guided 10,000+people to the polar regions safely and  undertook and self-filmed, a two-week sea kayaking expedition in Antarctica that became an award-winning documentary.

I was also a founding industry assessor of the Polar Tourism Guides Association — helping build the professional standards for an entire industry.

Those years didn't just build resilience. They built a particular kind of leadership: calm under pressure, clear in complexity, and deeply human in the hardest moments.

03   when the expeditions stopped   


A different kind of work began.

When COVID grounded global expeditions in 2020, I didn't pause. I turned toward something I'd been thinking about for a long time: building something that genuinely serves people.

The direction became clear through experience I'd rather not have had. Over several years my family navigated a series of life transitions — a parent's move to aged care, an estate to manage, an in-law's downsizing — each involving property that needed to be sold in a time of overwhelm.

What struck me every time was the gap. Families were expected to manage enormous emotional weight alongside enormous logistical complexity, with almost no professional support that could carry the full burden.


My co-founder had lived the same experience. And out of that shared understanding, Harrington Road was born — not as a property company, but as the service we wished had existed for our own families.


If you were to look for a definition of an INFJ (Advocate) on the Myer-Briggs test, you may find me.  Tasmanian, in my happy place in the wilderness, a kitchen or anywhere close to a spreadsheet and usually found with multiple layers of merino clothing attached to me. 

As a young professional… 

...I had an urge to cast away my engineering career and do, well, I actually had no idea.  But I just knew that my purpose wasn't fully being served, and despite how many times I locked the inner voice in the cupboard under the stairs, it kept escaping.  Despite the valuable skills being gained from learning my craft in consulting engineering, finally, I attuned to my inner voice and took heed. 

But the world has a funny way…

...of offering up what is needed.  Cold places it turns out.  By chance I found myself chasing a passion - wilderness.  After re-training and upskilling, here I was leading guests on remote journeys through vast wild places.  And what could be more remote, vast and wild than Antarctica.  A decade later, the wild still calls my name and I listen.  At times. 

It turns out my advocacy personality also needed to be heard… 

...and so I turned to the entrepreneurial stage, a stage where I felt the freedom to pursue that which fulfills the soul.  Always with a challenge, always with questions, rarely comfortable. 

HARRINGTON ROAD

Australia's only end-to-end property and life transition service.

Helping families navigate downsizing, aged care transitions, and deceased estates with dignity, clarity, and better financial outcomes. No upfront costs. Fees recovered at settlement.   VISIT HARRINGTON ROAD



WHAT I STAND FOR.

 

BUSINESS SHOULD SERVE PEOPLE & PLANET, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

 

LEAD WITH CALM. INVEST WITH COURAGE. BUILD WITH CARE.



 

SYSTEMS MATTER. PEOPLE MATTER MORE.


 

THE WORLD GETS BETTER WHEN BOLD VENTURES ARE BUILT WITH CARE.


THE EWAN FACT CHECK

All the important stuff

Adult beverage of choice

Negroni 

Tropical vs Mountain vacation 

Either will be fine thanks

Childhood employment choice

Garbage collector

Favourite Excel Function 

So hard!!  Ok, VLOOKUP

Morning must have

Meditation session

Travel Must-have  ​

Ear plugs  ​

Stance on neapolitan ice cream   ​​

​Ban it now   ​

favourite rant topic   

Financial literacy   

least favourite exercise   

Lunges   

To travel forward or back 100 years   

Always going forward  

Adult beverage of choice

Negroni 

Tropical vs Mountain vacation 

Either will be fine thanks

Childhood employment choice

Garbage collector

Favourite Excel Function 

So hard!!  Ok, VLOOKUP

Morning must have

Meditation session

Travel Must-have  ​

Ear plugs  ​

Stance on neapolitan ice   cream   ​​

​Ban it now   ​

favourite rant topic   

Financial literacy   

least favourite exercise   

Lunges   

To travel forward or back    100 years   

Always going forward