Greater Melbourne Area
Bestselling author, speaker, and mentor. For over two decades, I've helped founders and leaders navigate transformation, turning complexity, friction, and stalled change into clarity, capability, and measurable performance. I've worked across technology, mining, pharma, government, and professional services, designed leadership programs for universities and enterprises, and partnered with C-suite executives and high-growth teams to turn strategy into results. My Predictive High Performance™ System has helped hundreds of experts move from contribution to strategic influence, including creating pathways for neurodivergent talent and building cultures where people don't have to leave parts of themselves at the door. But the longer I did this work, the more I saw what the frameworks couldn't explain. The leaders who created lasting change weren't the ones who pushed harder. They were the ones who became more coherent — more aligned between who they were and how they led. The breakthroughs that lasted never came from another strategy. They came from something deeper reorganising within the person. That became my life's work. My bestselling book, Emergent, taught a generation of leaders how to ignite movements inside organisations. My new book, Ascendant: How To Reshape Reality From The Inside Out, goes deeper — into the hidden architecture beneath identity, performance, and lived experience, and how reality reorganises around the coherence of who you are. Through the Resonance Map™ and Auren Method™, I help founders, leaders, and high-achievers move from performing their lives to inhabiting them. This is inner work as precise as it is profound. I work with people who are: • High-performing on the outside, but sensing a deeper misalignment beneath the success • Ready to lead from coherence rather than pressure • Done with surface-level self-improvement and ready for something that genuinely holds What becomes possible: ✅ Clarity beneath the noise — in how you think, decide, lead, and live ✅ Sustainable performance that doesn't cost you yourself ✅ A way of moving through the world that finally feels true If that resonates, there are a few ways to go deeper: 📖 Pre-order my new book, Ascendant via the link in my profile header 🎤 Book me to speak at your event (private message me here or visit my website for details) 🧭 Take the Resonance Map™ – a precision diagnostic that reveals the hidden patterns shaping how you think, decide, and live. E: [email protected]
I lead Altitud3, a practice helping founders and organisations unlock performance across three dimensions: people, systems, and self. My work spans executive coaching and mentoring, strategic advisory, and system-level transformation, alongside a deeper body of work on coherence, identity, and what truly drives lasting change. The throughline is consistent: performance becomes durable when people, the systems they work within, and their sense of self come into alignment. The deepest, most lasting change tends to require all three. Key contributions: - Designed proprietary frameworks, including the Predictive High Performance™ System for enterprise leadership, and the Resonance Map™ and Auren Method™ that underpin my latest book, Ascendant. They embed scalable capability and help people move from technical contribution to strategic influence, and from performing their lives to inhabiting them. - Partnered with C-suite leaders and high-growth teams across tech, mining, pharma, government, and professional services to drive retention, lift engagement, and deliver measurable transformation. - Developed market-relevant programs for universities and enterprise clients, bridging academic rigour with commercial outcomes, and creating pathways for neurodivergent talent to step into leadership. - Authored two books. Emergent, on igniting movements inside organisations, and Ascendant, on how reality reorganises around the coherence of who you are. Together they translate two decades of practice into frameworks leaders and individuals can apply.
Led the launch and growth of DraftFCB’s regional Digital Innovation & Insights division, focused on emerging technology, social media forensics, and behaviour-led brand strategy across Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Key contributions and achievements: • Established and led the regional Digital Innovation & Insights division, delivering emerging technology strategies, social media forensics, and behaviour-led marketing solutions. • Directed multi country digital transformation initiatives, integrating creative, data, and technology platforms to support high impact campaigns for clients in secure and highly regulated sectors. • Represented the agency as a keynote speaker at industry events, collaborating across APAC, Oceania, and the agency’s global networks. • Led pitch strategy and new business development, securing multi-market projects and positioning the agency as a leader in the use of emerging technology across APAC.
Led the regional digital innovation portfolio across Oceania and AsiaPac, collaborating globally within the Young & Rubicam Brands network to deliver cutting-edge campaigns and strategic solutions for government and enterprise clients. Partnered with global “creative rumbles,” mobilising multi-disciplinary teams from across continents to solve complex brand and technology challenges in high‑intensity sprint formats. Key Contributions: • Led technology‑enabled transformation initiatives for major government and commercial clients, integrating enterprise systems, data flows, secure digital experiences, delivering measurable outcomes. • Directed regional digital innovation and engagement strategy across major government and commercial accounts, driving integrated campaigns that enhanced client performance and market relevance. • Collaborated globally through Y&R creative rumbles, co-developing award-winning ideas and emerging technology solutions with top creative, technology, and production talent worldwide. • Represented the agency at industry events, speaking on the future of digital, technology-led creativity, and the commercial impact of innovation during the advent of social media. • Managed full P&L and cross-functional teams spanning strategy, creative, and technology to deliver high-value digital outcomes. • Secured and led marquee accounts, including Department of Defence, Sensis Yellow Pages, Cricket Australia, Sony Corporation, AGL, and NAB.
Designed and delivered curriculum for Swinburne’s Master of Arts (Communication) program, with a focus on preparing students to lead in complex, technology-driven communication environments. Leveraged deep industry experience to bridge academic research with practical, commercially relevant applications in brand strategy, corporate communication, and leadership in emerging media. Key Contributions: • Created and facilitated postgraduate curriculum integrating digital innovation, leadership, and applied communication strategy. • Equipped students to navigate organisational change and transformation, embedding commercial and industry perspectives into all coursework. • Mentored postgraduate students through applied research projects, fostering career readiness and leadership capability. • Enhanced Swinburne’s reputation for contemporary, industry-relevant programs, attracting students seeking leadership pathways in communication and media.
Served as senior faculty within RMIT’s School of Creative Media, designing and delivering curriculum for the innovative Master of Arts (Virtual Communication) program—a postgraduate course positioned at the intersection of digital innovation and business transformation. This program was designed to equip graduates to lead in emerging media and technology-driven markets, bridging academic research with real-world commercial application. Key Contributions: • Developed and delivered core curriculum exploring online brand architecture, international corporate communication, and digital media leadership. • Brought real-world commercial expertise to an academic environment, complementing a faculty of predominantly PhD-level academics with industry-led perspectives. • Mentored postgraduate students through major research projects, linking creative technology with measurable organisational outcomes. • Helped position RMIT as a leader in emerging media and applied digital innovation, attracting fee-paying students seeking career pivots into future-facing industries.