Deliver your vision, no matter the obstacles in your way

Steve is an expert in digital strategy and innovation, business transformation and culture management. He has enjoyed a working career full of twists and turns involving many disciplines, industries, countries and is well known for his leadership skills, creative thinking and capacity to instill positive cultural change. Steve is available to serve you and your organisation in at least three types of roles:

Non-Executive Director/Chair

Steve brings to a Board table the perspective of someone who has been client and consultant, banker and borrower, CEO and corporate coach, director and chair. That breadth — across digital strategy, business transformation, financial structuring and organisational culture — means he can engage meaningfully across the full range of issues a modern Board faces.

His particular value is at the intersection of technology and culture: helping boards ask the right questions about digital transformation and AI adoption, and holding management accountable for the human dimensions of change that strategy documents consistently 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 to be assessed or executed. He brings 25 years of multi-disciplinary experience across digital strategy, innovation, organisational culture and change, combined with the direct, candid perspective of someone who has sat on every side of the advisory relationship.

Engagements range from focused strategic reviews to longer-term advisory retainers. The common thread is practical, senior counsel that helps leadership teams move from clarity to action.

Keynote Speaker

Steve's keynotes draw on an unusual combination: 25 years of consulting and advisory experience across digital transformation, leadership and culture — and a parallel life as an adventurer, author and Porsche touring writer. 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 the challenge of leading organisations through unfamiliar terrain. Steve is listed with Saxton Speakers and Celebrity Speakers Australia.

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