Our Story

Michelle is an accomplished consultant leading and delivering transformational business, IT and digital change.

Her specialisations include turning strategies into deliverable programs, business cases, benefit optimisation, and guiding and growing people to deliver change. She is known for designing pragmatic solutions tailored to changing environments taking people, leaders and boards on the journey of change. Michelle works with organisations to effectively scope and align work to promote and build adaptive cultures.

Michelle brings skills strengthened through industry leadership and extensive experience with premier consulting organisations, including Strategy&, AT Kearney, Deloitte and KPMG. She enjoys hands-on delivery and mentoring teams to achieve excellence.

Michelle currently serves as a Director on the Southern Rural Water Board and Chairperson of Knox Basketball, Inc., a large NFP sporting organisation.

Michelle holds a Bachelor of Science from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Michelle is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Nick is a successful technology services Executive, advisory consultant and non-executive director experienced in leading and growing businesses of all sizes across different industries thru the application of digital transformation.

Nick has developed a strength in understanding and communicating how digital can be adopted to accelerate the performance of businesses through effective cost management and/or driving growth.  This skill has led to him advising Boards, Executive management and IT divisions on the best way to transform.   

Nick has led several prominent ‘digital’ organisations, including as the Senior Managing Partner of Digital Transformation with DXC Technology providing advice to Executive management across multiple industries and Government, Head of DXC Technology’s ANZ Consulting Division, CEO of UXC Consulting which included consolidation of seven acquisitions into an integrated multi-faceted national consulting business, growing revenues over 400%, CEO and Group Managing Director for Adecco’s Professional Services Business, CEO of Freelance Global and co-founder and executive of CPT Global.

His advisory experience also includes assisting a Tier 1 bank on their single-biggest technology offshoring exercise and oversaw the end-to-end integration, strategic business planning for a telco and large-scale pricing and billing platforms.  He currently serves on several Boards.

He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (EDP) from Monash University and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Ferne is an energetic and authentic leader with vast experience in management consulting and program delivery in over 30 years experience from roles in Australia, Canada, the UK, Asia and South Africa.

Ferne has a proven track record of establishing and maintaining transformation and portfolio management functions along with improvements to operating models affected by operating excellence.   Ferne is highly proficient at delivery, often taking on those investments that are off track struggling to manage risks and outcomes in a complex environment of managing remote working teams.  

With meticulous attention to detail and an eye on the clock, Ferne will drive your program with the right balance of discipline and dynanism. 

David is an entrepreneurial and visionary technology growth executive, with more than 20 years of experience leading high-performance teams to drive change and business value through enterprise-scale systems and services.  He has personally led, co-led and significantly contributed to well over a quarter-$ billion dollars in revenue impact, working with clients across multiple industries. 

With expertise in applying strategic technologies such as AI, data, cloud and software services for the enterprise, David specialises in helping clients develop innovative business growth strategies, implement go-to-market, plan their digital transformation, and build new capabilities. David is also a recognised thought leader in higher education and digital health, with a track record of bringing cross-industry innovation to these sectors.

David’s leadership experience with global consulting and technology leaders such as IBM, DXC and Salesforce, includes major digital transformation programs, global first-of-a-kind initiatives, and delivering award-winning digital solutions.

He holds double bachelor’s degrees from Melbourne University, an Executive MBA from UNSW, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Danielle is our lead financial modeller, supporting clients in multiple industries. 

Danielle is a Microsoft MVP and the author of “Using Excel for Business and Financial Modelling” (3^rd edition, 2019) and “Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies” (2^nd edition, 2022) She is a LinkedIn Learning Instructor and in 2022 she was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the Financial Modelling Summit. Danielle founded the Financial Modellers’ Meetup groups which attracts participants from all over the world as well as a LinkedIn forum with over 160,000 members. An advocate for women in finance, she was on the Diversity Council for the ModelOff Financial Modeling World Championships and founded the Women in Financial Modelling online community.

She is a Master Financial Modeler (FMI), holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) and has taught management accounting subjects at the University of Sydney.

Jim is a strategic executive with a solid and successful drive to change programs and produce favourable financial outcomes. He brings has wealth of IT literacy and business acumen, which he draws on to successfully advocate business interests and outcomes to a diverse scope IT groups.

Jim has held executive roles with KPMG, IBM, SAP and ThoughtWorks. His clients range from prominent financial service organisations, logistics and public sector departments.

Jim holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science and Economics from University of Waterloo, Ontario and an MBA from University of Western Ontario.

Kevin is an experienced and pragmatic Chief Information Security Officer with over 20 years cybersecurity and risk experience.  His specialisations include; cyber risk assessments, developing cybersecurity strategy, capability development, and leading process and technology implementation.

He has held security leadership roles in big 4 consulting firms, the media sector, financial services, critical infrastructure, and hypergrowth companies.

He brings skills in aligning cybersecurity and risk strategies to business needs and goals, and  in communicating effectively to non-technical executives.

Kevin has managed organisations efforts in gaining security certifications and attestations such as ISO:27001 and SOC II, and was a member of the advisory group for the development of the Australian Energy Sector Cyber Security Framework.

A founding member of the Australian/New Zealand Chapter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and a past President and Vice President. He is also a past member of the APEC Privacy Sub Committee working group, and the National Consultative Committee on Privacy and Risk. Currently he is an advisory board member at Deakin University and a member of the Australian Information Security Association.

Experienced professional with a proven track record collaborating with hundreds of organisations across diverse industries, from Financial Services to Pharmaceuticals. Brings global perspectives and versatile competencies from working in Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, and Africa, with organisations of all sizes from seed-stage startups through to the world's largest companies. Offers well-rounded expertise, with significant consulting experience gained at ThoughtWorks and AWS, complemented by senior internal roles at Amazon, NAB, and Sensis.

Notable achievements include launching many of Australia’s first native mobile apps (Sensis, NAB) in a time before the iPhone, and authoring the book Understanding Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile (O’Reilly, 2017) about modern approaches to customer innovation and product management.

Stephen is an accomplished Transformation leader with 20+ years’ experience leading strategic change outcomes for large-scale, customer-centric organisations.   Each role over this period conducted in a highly collaborative manner to develop teams and establish trust across the organisation.

He has a proven track record establishing and leading multi-disciplinary project delivery teams to oversee the overall governance and management of strategic project portfolio’s. Stephen is well regarded as a change advocate with a passion for inspiring & motivating organisations to translate enterprise strategy into tangible outcomes that result in improved performance and exceptional customer experiences.

Stephen embraces an adaptive, humanistic leadership style, underpinned by a strong business & commercial acumen, enabling an effective and collaborative approach to managing relationships with diverse stakeholder groups at all levels of the organisation. Stephen complements his industry experience with extensive experience developing Project Management capability at post graduate level.

Imre is an internationally recognised thought and practice leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and Improvement.

His specialisations include enterprise-wide process and productivity improvement, Business Process Management (BPM) frameworks, strategic roadmap development, Enterprise Architecture, transformation program design, stakeholder engagement, operating model design, product portfolio review, change management, and program management.

Imre has over 30 years’ experience including leadership roles at Telstra, University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, Australia Post, Toyota, BHP, Telecom New Zealand, Ergon Energy, Greyhound Racing Victoria and Respect Victoria.

He is the author of Business Process Management – Insights and Practices for Sustained Transformation and Business Process Management: Strategies to Improve Performance.

Imre holds Bachler of App. Sci (Comp.) from Melbourne, Bachler of Arts (Soc. Sci.) from La Trobe, Post Grad. Dip. (Management) and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Deakin University.

Nick is deeply experienced in strategy execution, with focus on mobilisation and recovery of major projects.  Nick’s work extends multiple decades, as an interim executive and advisor, supporting strategy reset, operating model implementation, restructuring, M&A and divestment.  A particular strength for Nick is aligning boards, shareholders and executives on the course of action and measures for success. 

Nick’s professional experiences have been in Australia and across Asia, in Banking, Telecommunications, Energy and Sport. 

Nick is a company director, Non-Executive Director at Pony Club Australia, Vice President of the Thoroughbred Club of Australia, and Vice Chairman of the Melbourne Racing Club. 

Nick holds a Masters in Public Policy, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Certificate of Governance from the Governance Institute of Australia. 

Amro’s career spans over two decades in consulting, digital & technology advisory, and assurance, helping companies set strategy and deliver complex business programs, both locally and globally.

His experience covers multiple industries, including public service, health, logistics, consumer, utilities and FIS. Amro has led over ten complex programs, with budgets up to $500M; five of these were global transformation programs, with the largest spanning teams across six continents, 50 countries and 35,000+ employees. Amro has provided assurance and consulting services for initiatives up to $11B.

Amro is passionate about helping clients and continuously learning new products, domains and industry knowledge. His breadth and depth of experience allow him to quickly grasp the strategic issues critical to delivery success, rapidly build high-performing teams and identify the capabilities required to help organisations achieve desired outcomes.

Amro holds a Master of Project Management from the University of Sydney (IT & Engineering). He is a professional member of the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineering & Computer Society, Australasian Institute of Digital Health and Certified Practicing Project Professional.

Paul is an accomplished consultant specialising in commercial strategy and program design and management.

With executive level leadership and substantial consulting experience, Paul has a reputation for critical thinking and cut-through delivery in the most complex environments. His calm demeanour and focus result in influence at CEO and senior executive levels in large corporations.

His specialisations include developing complex business cases to support strategic investments, designing and leading enterprise level strategic programs, and advising executives on growth and productivity initiatives.

Paul has been a member of several financial services industry groups to bring about innovation in the industry. He has played a key role in establishing a financial services joint venture and advised on several M&A transactions.  His experience has been gained in Australia and the United Kingdom in organisations including NAB, Clydesdale Bank, AXA, SunSuper and Australia Post as well as numerous SME clients.

Paul has been a speaker at the annual CPA Congress event on the topic of successful strategic planning, and holds a Master of Business Administration degree.

Andrew specialises in designing and executing large scale business transformations partnering with executive teams to achieve their multi-year strategic goals.

With a rare blend of Consulting and Executive level industry experience spanning key leadership that include productivity, operating models, organisation design and transformation design and delivery he brings a practical approach to improving organisation performance through projects, programs and PMOs.

His focus in on ensuring teams are engaged and aligned on the outcomes and the change is sustainable but more importantly the transformation and its benefits will be accelerated.

Andrew has multi-sector experience including Telecommunications, Energy, Government, Manufacturing, Media and Financial Services.

Andrew holds Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and postgraduate in Business.

Vince is an experienced Executive Adviser, who helps clients design and lead their transformative programs for growth and efficiency.

Vince is also a Managing Director at Blue Ridge Partners.

His specialisations include transformative program design, business case development, governance, investment portfolio optimisation and building execution capability. His early career focussed bottom-line results through to business reengineering and technology integration. Later years on top-line growth, customer service, marketing and sales uplift, and transitioning business models to digital.

Prior to Capability, Vince was a senior member at Oakton and KPMG. His clients include prominent organisations in financial services, public sector, technology and logistics industries. He is a primary author of innovative methods and thought leadership for KPMG, CIO Executive Council and Capability.

He holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School, and Bachelor of Accounting and Bachelor of Computer Science from Monash. His certifications include PCP, CPA and GAICD.

Gerry is a leading advisor to Boards and Executives to help strategically improve their businesses through growth initiatives, mergers and acquisitions and other transformative change.

Gerry is also a Managing Director at Blue Ridge Partners .

His industry experience is predominantly in financial services and the public sector. He has led engagements to help transform a bank to increase growth whilst reducing the costs and later governed other major investments. For another major bank he developed an M&A approach for technology and operations. He was exclusively retained by Victorian Government to assess the quality of analysis to support business cases.

Prior to Capability, Gerry was the Managing Director of Group.Joy Consulting , Managing Principal Financial Services Consulting for IBM in Asia/Pacific, a similar role at AT&T and Global Finance Industry Leader for DMR Group.

Gerry graduated with honours from Melbourne University with a science degree in Geophysics and Mathematics.

Kerri has 20 years’ experience in Program, Project and Change management with a proven track record of delivering strategic projects on time and within budget.

She has led and successfully executed strategic business projects in highly competitive and complex environments across Australia and internationally. With extensive experience, Kerri has successfully managed teams and is comfortable in working in an environment of many stakeholders with often competing priorities to deliver a roadmap that achieve these common goals and sustainable outcomes.

Kerri’s success lies in a strong mix of competencies that blend a commercial acumen with business development expertise, a strong understanding of operations management, project management and change management frameworks.

Her experience sector-based experience spans Australia, the UK and Europe and includes public sector, Health, Financial Services, Telecommunications and FMCG.

Kerri holds an MBA from Macquarie, Bachelor of Economics from University of Western Sydney, and Grad. Dip. Secondary Education (Economics).

Jurek a specialist advisor working with Boards, CEOs and CIOs to identify and deliver significant business performance improvements.

Jurek’s enthusiasm for technology innovation and his engaging and straight forward style has developed a reputation for driving outcomes and building highly motivated and high performing teams.

Jurek is a published author of global IT standards and best practices and articles on shared services optimisation.

Prior to Capability, Jurek was a Partner with HunterPAC, Partner with Reveal Group, CIO of the Retail Bank at NAB, and Executive Roles at AT Kearney and Accenture. Consulting clients have been diverse and include MIT, Sensis, ING, London Stock Exchange, ABN AMRO Amex, Aristocrat, ANZ, Cathay Pacific, Telstra, Bendigo Bank, Greyhound Victoria and Respect Victoria.

Jurek holds a Bachleor or Arts (Business Administration/French) from Aston University.

Siddhant specialises in digital marketing and end-to-end management of digital asset delivery.

His expertise is in brand strategy, B2B and B2C marketing and digital solutions. Siddhant has hands-on operational experience in growing manufacturing, entertainment and e-commerce businesses having run and invested in four companies over the years. He compliments this with several years of consulting experience where he has worked with multiple companies in Australia across different sectors, focusing primarily on customer-centric marketing and digital engagements.

Siddhant is also the founder of Rose Foundation Nepal, a not for-profit that raises awareness about cancer and supports the treatment of underprivileged children battling cancer in Nepal.

Siddhant holds an MBA and Master of Marketing from Melbourne Business School where he was awarded The Director’s Grant for Excellence, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Kathmandu University.

Paul has over 25 years’ experience in program management, consulting, executive line management and delivery roles leading organisational improvement and directing business transformation programs.

Paul is recognized as a strategic, innovative, and passionate leader with the ability to develop practical plans, secure stakeholder engagement and deliver required business outcomes.    

Paul’s career includes executive positions with the Transport Accident Commission and consulting roles with Arthur Anderson, IBM and PA Consulting.  His extensive experience spans private sector, State and Federal Government agencies, and recent experience includes leading a global regulatory program for the National Australia Bank and providing strategic program management support to the operational rollout of the NDIS.  Prior to this Paul held executive leadership accountability for managing the transition of the Transport Accident Commission from Melbourne to Geelong, where he was awarded the Australian Institute of Project Managements’ National Change Management award.

He holds a Master of Commerce degree from University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Computing Science (Hons) degree from the University of Adelaide.