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Workshop Facilitation Tips - Reconnecting and the Power of Good Workshops
The majority of people have returned to the office for some of their working week, and organisations are now looking at longer-term...
Apr 28, 20222 min read
The Great Resignation, Tips for Emerging Micro-Businesses and Solopreneurs
Covid visited our home this week, like many others this year. We are all ok. The isolation served me well. I roamed in the front of the...
Apr 21, 20222 min read
Bringing It All For Coupa in Las Vegas - Keynote speaker
Last week I ran a workshop with eighty of Coupa’s most senior client executives from North America. We spent two and half hours during...
Apr 14, 20222 min read
Google's Research Found Five Attributes that Make Teams Effective - Project Aristotle
Google completed a study on effective teams several years ago and found these five factors contribute significantly to a team's success....
Apr 7, 20221 min read
Directors - What Should Be Within Your Cyber Strategy?
In December 2021, changes were made to Australian Directors Standards, requiring clear stepping stones that demonstrate an ongoing uplift...
Mar 17, 20223 min read
Solving Over Selling - Small Business Learnings
My wife and I wake on most mornings at six am and visit our favourite coffee shop, as do many other people. Over the past three years,...
Mar 10, 20222 min read
Pointless Work in a Digital Ecosystem is Still Pointless
Last week, an organisation contacted me enquiring about what technology would enhance their customers' experience. It is similar to...
Feb 17, 20221 min read


$40 Million of Ransomware Paid for a Cyber-Attack - as a Non-Tech Exec, What Can You Do?
In March 2022, CNA Financial in the US paid a record $40 million in ransomware for a cyber-attack due to malware linked to a Russian...
Feb 10, 20222 min read
The Nuances in Assessing Critical Systems, Networks and Data for Cybersecurity
Cyber-attacks are asymmetric in nature, with hackers having low risk, defenders high risks and an impossibly large surface area to...
Dec 16, 20212 min read
Cyber-Attackers "Greatest Hits" and How to Prepare
Cyber-attacks continue to increase, and the organisations being targeted are changing. Forty-three per cent of all Cyber-attacks are now...
Dec 9, 20212 min read
How We Can All Be More Cyber Educated
Many people are Cyber aware, but not Cyber educated, that is why I completed a 100 course with Harvard remotely on the topic! Here are...
Dec 2, 20212 min read
The Three Optimistic Strategic Initiatives, Plus a Non-Negotiable
I am offering 60-minute consultations to organisations to discuss their strategic initiatives (more about this below); feel free to...
Nov 25, 20212 min read
What Can We Learn From Australia’s Most Popular Political Leader?
‘Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.’ – Constance Wu In 2019, while appearing on the...
Nov 18, 20212 min read


What is the Metaverse? What is Facebook's involvement?
‘The next major technological platform for creative expansion of the mind will be cyberspace, or more specifically the Metaverse, a...
Nov 12, 20213 min read
The MACRO Consequences of Our Low Level of Trust?
"If you want to change the world, the go home and love your family." - Mother Teresa Our interconnected, changing world has seen more...
Nov 5, 20212 min read
The benefits beyond emissions for NET ZERO (originally published in CEO WORLD)
'Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.’ – Lord Robertson The Australian...
Oct 29, 20212 min read


It is freedom eve, why does our family have anxiety?
Melbourne is almost out of lockdown, but I can't help but feel that some of us will be still in it. I am a positive person. I am that...
Oct 21, 20213 min read
Facebook this is not the first time, we all should again consider our actions (CEO WORLD)
‘There’s a dark side to everything.’ – Prince Over the last five years, we have seen a shift from political parties from a traditional,...
Oct 15, 20212 min read
'Finding A Better Way' in our highly interconnected and interdependent world
‘If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.’ - Larry Dixon Systems thinking explores how the world is...
Oct 6, 20212 min read
How a late-night in Spain originated in Finding A Better Way
"The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking." - Peter Senge We were on...
Sep 24, 20213 min read
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