I’ve spent my career navigating the complexities of banking, energy, and fintech. Here, I break down the issues that actually matter—cutting through the corporate noise to share honest thoughts on what it takes to align stakeholders, accelerate decisions, and drive genuine progress.
A New Zealand bank was auto-decisioning less than 1% of business lending applications. That meant almost every application needed a human to review it. Contact centre staff. Credit analysts. Manual touchpoints at every step.
I once stepped into a high-stakes solution rebuild—a total 'redo' after a vendor delivery had failed business acceptance testing. The biggest gap? The delivery team failed to understand the ripple-through impacts...
Stop drowning in spreadsheets and endless alignment meetings. Learn how one visual, high-impact framework helped five executives prioritise 29 projects in under 20 minutes.
This was my first adventure race, inspired by reading ‘Are you trying to kill us?’ about 20 years of adventure racing in the Coromandel NZ
If you understand about 50% of what needs to be done, when do you make a call it’s OK to back yourself to move forward and learn the rest as you go, vs seeking more clarity?
That great feeling when your solution design hits the spot.
Top networking tip when you move to a new city
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