I build healthcare companies where the rules are hardest.
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.
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 started university meaning to study medicine, pivoted to law, and never stopped shipping things in between. None of it was a plan. All of it was practice.
My first company, started as a teenager: a youth agency that connected other teenagers with real freelance work. I registered the ABN and built the website myself. It was where I learned that shipping something beats planning it.
My first work inside the disability sector, running marketing for an NDIS provider while I was still at school. It is the thread I came back to and built a company on.
Years of VCE chemistry and Victorian classrooms. The discipline of explaining a hard thing simply, over and over, until it lands.
Reviewing AI model outputs against legal and safety standards. The same judgement I now build agents to carry across both companies.
Third year, and the path I chose over medicine. The lens I now read every framework my companies live inside through.
Managing Director
A registered NDIS provider delivering daily support across fourteen registration groups: personal care, behaviour support, nursing, allied health, and community participation. Delivered in first languages, and to the standard the paperwork promises rather than the one the sector settles for.
CEO
A medicinal cannabis telehealth practice. Clinician-led consultations for patients across Australia, built to operate inside the TGA framework from the very first script.
For Independent Life, for LeafLine, or for the thing that does not exist yet.
umar@independentlife.au© 2026 Umar Khan
