For more than 25 years, I have worked with business owners, executives and leadership teams on strategy, business performance, distressed company turnarounds and exits.

My focus now is Strategic Diagnosis & Coherent Action Design: helping founders, CEOs and small cap boards identify their real challenges, make clear strategic choices and design coherent actions that actually solve the challenges.

Strategy is creative problem solving in the here and now, not about filling out consultant's templates with 'winning aspirations' and 'financial goals'. If only it were that easy.

It has taken me many years of consulting to wake up to this.

Influencers include Peter Drucker, Richard Rumelt, Roger Martin, Gary Hamel, and my creative problem solving mentor, and friend Min Basadur.

Industry experience:

• Family owned businesses.

• Manufacturing - vehicle assembly.

• Food processing.

• Healthcare (aged care, private and public hospitals).

• Professional services.

• Software and tech services.

• Venture capital.

• Scientific services (agriculture).

• Medical research.

• Livestock farming - broad acre.

• Building & construction.

Qualifications & Accreditations:

• Bachelor Accounting & Finance - Macquarie University (Sydney).

• Diploma of Management - AGSM (Sydney).

• Commercial Mediator - Australian Commercial Disputes Centre (Sydney).

• Certified Basadur Integrator, via Basadur Applied Innovation (Toronto, Canada).

• Value Investing Certificate - Columbia University (New York).