Working with Australia's top C-suite and Boards to lead the national agenda and avoid the disruption and political volatility of government electoral cycles to deliver commercial solutions that mutually benefit the company, as well as the communities and countries they operate in. I founded Provocate to help C-suites apply stronger commercial rigour to external, government and public affairs and link it intrinsically to the delivery of the company's market, competitor and EBITDA strategies.

Working as part of Government C-suite, alongside Federal Ministers, Prime Ministers Office, Department Heads, as well as stakeholder CEOs and media editors, to proactively drive and deliver some of the nation’s biggest health, sport and aged care reforms, as well as handling national and global issues and crises, including:- $6 billion medicine reforms package through Federal Parliament.- Zika Virus & Ebola outbreak national responses. - 6th national pharmacy agreement, incl. Introduction of the $1 pharmacy discount. - Securing equal female athletes travel rights as men.- Doping scandals: Russian Olympic, Essendon AFL, Cronulla NRL. - Legalisation of medicinal marijuana production and access.- Taking on global pharmaceutical giant over 50% consumer product price increase and winning. - Developing national medicines monthly PBAC listing announcement program.- National recalls, including contaminated berries.- Reviving stalled digital My Health record, now covering 90%+ of Australian population.- Gold, Silver, Bronze private health insurance consumer simplification reforms. - ‘Girls Make Your Move’ national exercise and health campaign. - MBS review of all 5700 Medicare items to modernise patient access. - 40,000+ public responses to private health survey - largest Federal Government response at the time. - Data breaches - National blood bank and Department of Health- Recognised by Change.org as a leader in engagement strategies with petitioners.

Working as part of Government C-suite, alongside Federal Ministers, Prime Ministers Office, Department Heads, as well as stakeholder CEOs and media editors, to proactively drive and deliver some of the nation’s biggest child care and vocational education reforms, as well as handling national issues and crises, including:- Productive Commission Inquiry into Child Care and Early Learning funding.- 2000+ record public submissions based on communications program. - Child care fraud taskforce launch, since netting $3 billion nationally with police. - Child care rebate reform nationally. - Union-related negotiations and strikes. - Addressing deficit of trade take up in schools.

Working directly to two Brisbane Lord Mayors to proactively drive the agenda for APAC’s then-largest local government, with over 1 million residents, 500,000 direct customers, 8000 employees and a $3 billion annual budget, to help deliver some of Brisbane, Queensland and Australia’s biggest positive reforms and issues/crisis responses, including:- 2011 Brisbane Flood and 2013 ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald immediate crisis response and rebuild. - CLEM7 toll tunnel - Australia’s longest and most expensive at the time.- ‘Golden Triangle’ CBD property development and construction boom, including race for Brisbane’s tallest tower. - 'Come Together' national economic development campaign post-flood letting Australia Brisbane was reopen for business. - 500 new buses and record annual patronage increase to 90 million Australia’s local government public transport network. - Sale of local govt tolling assets for some of Queensland’s largest toll roads.- Annual Christmas retail launch and public events. - Legacy Way toll tunnel and Go Between Bridge toll road. - New CityCat (ferry) build, replacement and refinancing program.- Rebuilding entire BCC Ferry Terminal network after floods while maintaining services.- Record graffiti reduction through co-ordinated graffiti crackdown with Qld Police and Qld Rail. - Halved number of cracked footpaths in Brisbane. - Australia’s largest waste collection and disposal program. - Sale of local govt tolling assets for some of Queensland’s largest toll roads.- Upgrade and maintenance of 5700km of local govt road network – Australia’s largest.- Tailoring targeted corporate messages to 500,000 homes every fortnight.- Fivefold increasing proactive media output to up to 30 per week.

Covering Federal, state and local elections, the Global Financial Crisis, key regulatory changes impacting business and company profiles for some of Australia’s most influential business, transport and logistics, agricultural and motoring industry magazines and websites, as well as the highly-respected and coveted Q400 listed of Queensland’s top private companies.