UMAR KHAN

About

I run two healthcare companies in two of the most heavily regulated markets in the country. Independent Life Disability Supports is a registered NDIS provider. LeafLine Clinic is a medicinal cannabis telehealth practice. I am the Managing Director of the first and the CEO of the second.

I am also in my third year of law at Monash. That is not a hobby beside the work, it is part of it. Both companies answer to a regulator before they answer to me, so I decided to learn the frameworks they live inside well enough to read them in the original.

Most of what I do is unglamorous by design: registration scope, clinical governance, the documents that decide whether a vulnerable person is looked after properly or quietly let down. I build the compliance first and the growth on top of it, never the other way around.

I work in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi as often as in English, so I can earn trust directly with the communities most providers only reach through a translator. I have been doing the real work since I was a teenager, and I am only getting started.

Before this

I didn't arrive at this. I've been building and working since I was a teenager: a first business of my own, real jobs while I was still at school, and a company running before my degree was finished. I set out wanting to study medicine, chose law instead, and never stopped shipping things in between. None of it was a plan. All of it was practice.