AI changes the work. People decide if it works.
I turn people risk into your advantage.
• AI x Human Leadership
• Datacentres, community & the AI Era
• Founder Transitions and Executive Identity
• Slow AI: Design for the Future
• Building Teams and Surviving Start-Up Land
• Power, Legitimacy and Organisational Change
• Founder Transformation: Becoming a Good Ancestor
• AI x Human Leadership • Datacentres, community & the AI Era • Founder Transitions and Executive Identity • Slow AI: Design for the Future • Building Teams and Surviving Start-Up Land • Power, Legitimacy and Organisational Change • Founder Transformation: Becoming a Good Ancestor
KEYNOTES & TALKS
Talks that spark curiosity & inspire change.
Keynotes, panels and closed-door executive sessions alongside central banks, Professional Associations, the World Bank, Standard Chartered, European politicians, elite athletes, founders and business leaders.
Every session is built for your people and the decision in front of them. Designed to shift thinking and get the room aligned.
Board + Executive Briefings
Talk tech. Price in the people and community risks.
For boards and leadership teams making big calls on AI, transformation or growth.
Most risk registers track budget, timeline and technology. Few track people. I bring that missing risk into the room: how your people will respond, where resistance will surface, and what it will cost if you don't plan for it.
Candid, evidence-led and built around your agenda. You leave with clearer decisions and fewer surprises.
Firesides + Closed-Door
The conversation the public panel won’t have.
For conferences, summits, leadership offsites and podcasts.
A keynote that opens your event with energy and a point of view. An MC who keeps your program on time and your audience switched on. A moderator who keeps panels honest and asks the question the room is thinking.
Built for your audience, not recycled from the last one.
Keynotes, MC + Panels
Energy + engagement on stage. Honesty + insights on the panel.
For executive networks, investor groups and founder communities who want the real conversation behind closed doors.
AI projects rarely fail on technology. They fail on people. Public panels rarely say that out loud. Closed-door sessions do.
Off the record and small by design. Your guests say what they actually think and leave with something they can use.
COACHING & ADVISORY
For leaders everyone else calls brilliant.
One-to-One Coaching: You + Your leaders
Know your drivers. Own your values. Lead yourself first.
For CEOs, directors and senior leaders navigating high stakes change.
Cambridge-certified coaching for leaders including FTSE 100 executives, central bankers and founders. We work on the decisions in front of you, the patterns behind them, and how you lead yourself before you lead anyone else.
I also coach speakers to read the room, build trust and deliver talks people remember.
Private, candid and on your agenda.
New Venture Founders: The Culture Is You
Your habits become the company and your inner circle the standard.
For founders ready to step back and hand over well.
The hardest part of succession isn't choosing the next CEO. It's letting them lead. Too often the founder stays in the building, and the new CEO never gets to run the company.
I work with retiring founders to define their next role and redesign the organisation so the incoming CEO has real authority, clear decision rights and room to lead. You protect what you built by making sure it no longer depends on you.
Founder CEO to Good Ancestor
Your legacy: leaders judged by what outlasts them, at work and at home.
For founders building their first team or preparing to raise.
In the early days, there is no culture document. There's you. How you decide, react under pressure and treat people becomes how the company works. I work through the team conflict before Investors see it.
We work together to identify and shape your founder habits and your early hires and your story, so your team is an asset in the room, not a risk.
Meet the Founder
Hi, I'm EK. I'm Australian, born in Canada, and now based in Brisbane after living in six countries.
I'm a behavioural strategist, founder, investor and coach. I work with early-stage founders and sit as a non-executive director on the ASENTA family office.
I've led people strategy on four resources megaprojects worth $4B to $7B each. I've held executive and board roles, navigated exits and acquisitions, and led teams across 26 countries. My corporate career spans CIMIC, Downer, SNC-Lavalin, Booz Allen and S&P Global.
I've built and invested in four clean-energy tech startups in the US and UK. I've coached FTSE 100 leaders, central bankers, board directors, CEOs, athletes and founders.
I write about how people make decisions. I've published two books on mining and human resources, contributed to research and white papers, and write regularly on LinkedIn and Substack.
Learning and qualifications
Master of Service Innovation (Service Design, Data & AI), School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Queensland, Australia.
Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology and OHS), Griffith University, Australia.
Postgraduate Certificate, Psychological Methods in Executive Coaching, University of Cambridge, UK.
Certificate, Organisational Design and Strategic HR, ILR School, Cornell University, USA.
Postgraduate Certificate, Project Management (PMI), UNSW Australia