Turning ideas into experiences.

Hey, I’m Marcus. As an Advisory Board Certified Chair(^tm), I help you create the options needed to solve important problems in your business. Working closely with the Chair or CEO and starting as ‘a ‘Board of 1’ we shape the scope of the problem and then bring together the internal and external expertise to bring your opportunities to life.

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Results you CAN measure.

Years of Experience

Transformations Delivered

Countless Innovations

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Solving Puzzles

My Approach. Problem solving isn’t just focusing on one approach. I don’t just make things happen — I bring simplicity to complexity. Because clarity wins. Every time.

More than meetings and endless talk.

Services

Executive support comes in many forms. From helping you frame out strategy across the organisation, assisting in specific challenges or opportunties to holding up a mirror to you and your team on the effectiveness of your and their leadership

There are many challenges staying across what challenges you. Can you do it all? Can you do it alone?

Let’s Collaborate

Operating in todays environment is challenging. Understanding the opportunities and risks and the frameworks under which you operate give you many choices. Understanding which choice will work for you takes an iterative approach in creating, evaluating and dismissing options.

Strategy Faciliation

Insight driven

Real world options

Achievable

Leadership is a lonely journey. Often times you are challenged in ways that are new: new for you , new for the organisation. Having the ability to show up everyday to support your team and your clients whilst dealing with governance and regulation requires a resilient mindset.

Leadership Audits

Mentoring and Support

Building Team Dynamics

Trust and growth across your people

Personal and Team resilience

M&A activities, internal innovation, operational efficiencies and the adoption of AI and Digital requires a future oriented lens. That lens can be applied through targeted Advisory Boards or alternatively by helping you deliver projects with extreme governance that applies to both traditional and agile methods

Advisory Boards

Digital and AI transformation

Extreme Program Direction

Delivering Change is complex and challenging. With the large number of initiatives across organisations one change program will cross over onto others often with different approaches and expected impacts. The right strategies and people oriented approach enables change to be delivered with minimal impact.

Change Strategies

Workforce Planning

Team Coaching and Mentoring

No fluff. No guesswork.

Advisory Process

Whatever the challenge there are ways and means of overcoming those really big problems. Advisory Boards can help you shape the choices.

1. Initiation

The Initiation stage involves setting the foundation by clarifying the purpose of the advisory board and establishing its scope. Organisations need to identify the challenges or opportunities that require external insight, such as market entry, innovation, or project support. A defined Advisory Board Charter is developed at this stage, outlining objectives, roles, boundaries, and expected outcomes, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy from the outset.

2. Recruitment

Once the purpose is defined, the Recruitment stage focuses on selecting the right advisors. Using the framework, leaders consider diverse skills, experience, and networks that align with the identified objectives. Advisors are not chosen for prestige alone but based on their ability to provide independent, practical advice. Formal engagement agreements are set in place to clarify expectations, confidentiality, and remuneration, thereby building trust and setting the tone for collaboration

3. Operation

The Operation stage emphasizes how the advisory board functions in practice. Meetings are structured, purposeful, and collaborative, guided by the pre-established charter. Advisors provide insights, challenge assumptions, and offer strategic opportunities, while management remains responsible for decision-making.

4. Renewal

An Advisory Board has a purpose. Once that purpose is met. The charter needs to be redefined. The Renewal stage ensures the Advisory Board remains relevant. At defined intervals, performance and alignment are reviewed, with adjustments made to membership, scope, or processes as needed. This stage reinforces the advisory board’s value and sustainability over time.

Let’s Work Together.

Contact

Whether you’re ready to kick off a project, want to collaborate, or just want to learn more about how you can best leverage the capability of advisors and advisory boards — I’d love to hear from you.

I typically respond within 24 hours (unless I’m deep in thinking mode). Let’s chat.