The strategy is rarely where it breaks down
It comes undone in delivery — in the culture, the politics and the human realities a plan never fully captures. That’s the work Steve does: helping Boards and leadership teams get strategy through the terrain, not just onto the page. He’s available in three kinds of engagement.
Non-Executive Director / Chair
Steve joins a Board with the perspective of someone who has sat on every side of the table — and now sits as director and chair. That breadth, across digital strategy, business transformation, financial structuring and organisational culture, lets him engage meaningfully across the full range of issues a modern Board faces.
His particular value sits where technology meets culture: helping Boards ask sharper questions about digital transformation and AI adoption, and holding management to account for the human side of change that most plans underestimate.
Strategic Advisor
Steve works with senior executive teams at pivotal moments — when a transformation programme is stalling, when a strategy needs stress-testing, or when an M&A opportunity needs assessing or executing. He brings more than two decades across digital strategy, innovation, culture and change, and the candid counsel of someone who has been the client as often as the adviser.
Engagements range from focused strategic reviews to longer-term advisory retainers. The common thread is practical, senior counsel that moves leadership teams from clarity to action.
Keynote Speaker
Steve’s keynotes draw on an unusual combination: decades of boardroom experience, and a parallel life as an adventurer, author and motoring enthusiast. The result is stories that are analytically rigorous and genuinely memorable — grounded in both boardroom reality and the hard-won lessons of extreme environments.
He speaks on digital transformation and AI adoption, leadership in uncertainty, organisational culture and change, and the expedition lessons that apply directly to leading organisations through unfamiliar terrain. Steve is listed with Saxton Speakers and Celebrity Speakers Australia.
