How I Work

FROM IDEA TO COMMERCIAL PRODUCT

For founders, teams or businesses shaping new ideas, exploring opportunities, or rethinking how things should work.

Clarifying the problem, cutting through competing ideas, aligning stakeholders, and shaping a product, service or system that holds together commercially.


Typically used when:

  • You want to explore emerging technologies such as AI, new opportunities, or early-stage ideas but aren’t sure which are worth pursuing and where the value lies
  • There are multiple ideas, opinions or priorities competing for attention and you need clarity on what matters most
  • You need to excite and align founders, leadership teams, stakeholders or investors around a shared direction
  • You want to create something new, improve something existing, or challenge how a market currently works
  • You need to rethink or improve an internal system or operational process

Outcome: clarity on what matters, alignment around a shared direction, and confidence in what to build, improve, or invest in before committing significant time, money, or resources.

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STRATEGIC PRODUCT & GROWTH LEADERSHIP

For leadership teams needing clarity, alignment and confident decision-making on product and growth.

You bring me in when the big calls matter. To cut through noise, challenge assumptions, align stakeholders, and focus on the decisions that genuinely move the business forward.

Typically used when:

  • Product direction feels unclear or contested
  • Growth has plateaued and priorities are drifting
  • You need experienced judgement without committing to a full-time executive hire
  • Teams are busy but impact is slipping
  • Boards, investors, or leadership teams need an independent voice to challenge strategy, test assumptions, and strengthen decision-making

Outcome: clarity on direction, alignment at leadership level, and decisions that create momentum and measurable progress.

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Strategic Technology & Partner Selection

Helping organisations make better decisions about technology, partners, suppliers and key hires.

Many organisations only make these decisions a handful of times. I help leadership teams cut through sales pitches, assess options objectively, and reduce the risk of expensive mistakes.

Typically used when:

  • You’re making important hiring decisions and want independent input on roles, candidates, team structure, or whether an external partner may be a better fit
  • You’re evaluating technology options and need help deciding whether to buy, build, subscribe, integrate, or customise
  • You’re selecting and assessing agencies, suppliers, technology vendors, or strategic partners
  • You need an experienced, independent voice to challenge assumptions and reduce risk before making a major commitment

Outcome: greater confidence, reduced risk, and better long-term decisions.

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My Sweet Spot

You’ve heard the saying “Jack of all trades, master of none” — but most people leave off the ending:
Often more useful than master of one.” The real point is about being able to connect the dots. That’s where I do my best work.

In startups and growth-stage teams, progress doesn’t come from perfect specialism. It comes from people who can move between strategy and execution, see the whole system, and make good decisions in messy, fast-moving environments. After more than 20 years building and leading businesses, I’ve worked across design, product, technology, sales and storytelling.

Where I really come alive is in shaping smart, connected products. Products that sit at the intersection of design, UX and emerging technology, built to solve real problems, scale intelligently and feel meaningful to the people who use them.

That’s why my work today focuses on the future of AI and connected experiences. I help leaders cut through the hype, avoid the expensive mistakes, and create technology that actually works for humans.

A NEW WORLD OF AI & Connected ProductS

Future-ready strategy for leaders exploring what’s next in intelligent, human-centred experiences.

AI, data and connected systems are changing what products can do, how people interact with them, and how businesses create value. I help teams make sense of that shift and turn it into practical, commercial advantage.


What this typically involves:

  • Identifying where AI, data and connected devices can create real business and user value
  • Designing experiences powered by automation, real-time data and adaptive systems
  • Applying human-in-the-loop thinking so technology supports people rather than replacing them
  • Advising on real-time AI and data infrastructure approaches to enable predictive, asset-level decision making
  • Exploring new interfaces like voice, sensors and ambient computing as growth enablers
  • Prototyping, testing and validating ideas before scaling them

This is where I thrive. Helping leaders turn emerging technology into products people genuinely want to use.

Let’s build what’s next. If you’re ready to move faster, avoid the pitfalls, and create technology that scales with purpose, let’s talk.

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