I am a creative leadership consultant, coach, and social researcher of creativity and innovation management in organizational contexts. My past roles have included entrepreneur, designer, and innovation strategist across numerous sectors, and this underpins my academic research. I am interested in social dynamics as the key mechanism that propels complex innovation and change agendas today.

Combining extensive practical knowledge with established theory gives my work deep scientific insight. From a transdisciplinary viewpoint, it explains how social dimensions and interaction between people are fundamental to both creative processes, and the predictability of change from innovative outcomes. I use a diversity of interpretive skills and analytical techniques in making this new knowledge explicit, objective, meaningful, and valuable to organizational leaders as tangible reflections of their own abstract thinking. It facilitates vital space for critical deliberation and hypothesizing of ideas in advance of action, thereby refining decision options. This is an immersive design-thinking approach to business leadership, facilitated by an expert confidant.

Analysis, problem-finding and problem-solving draws upon diversified technical skillsets and creative strategies. I use many combinations to customize approach to each challenge. In a consulting environment negotiation and stakeholder management enables empathy, and academic rigor in ethics and integrity enables trust and confidentiality—the foundations of rapport in my client relationships. I regard these qualities as socially dynamic in the explication of ideas, and this shapes a collaborative environment for coaching and advisory engagements.

From a historical career perspective, I have held senior and leadership positions in high-level stakeholder engagements internationally, gaining experience in cross-cultural negotiation of trade and project delivery, and intellectual property transfers.

My entrepreneurial initiatives have delivered joint ventures, created new technologies, and won industry awards and nineteen research grants. I have contributed trained thought-leadership, design-thinking and human-centred approaches to products, technologies, environments, services, and business cases that span Australia, USA, Japan, and Europe. I have been advisor to a state economic department and an appointed member of a federal think tank on collaborative innovation.

My early applied design work, all industrially produced, is represented in the WA state gallery; has featured in books and publications and has been exhibited at design festivals and galleries in Australia, Japan, USA, South Korea, France, Spain. Selected works showcased in Australian embassies in Tokyo, Madrid, and Seoul as cultural exports and in 2013 I was commissioned by the Australian Prime Minister to design and produce commemorative pieces for the Japanese Prime Minister’s state visit.