TAKE THE NEXT STEP UP
We can guide you to the summit
FINDING THE BEST PATH
When you’re busy leading your business, it can be difficult to decide where to focus next. Which part of your business is going to drive your next successful step and what should you do with it?
The change that will move your business forward could be in your product or service model, business structure or team management. It might be your readiness for future growth, customer acquisition & targeting strategy, cost control or supply chain management. From the very first step with us, Audeamus Consultants will help you identify and implement change to drive your success far and fast and find new ways of beating your competition.
We are a group of highly experienced business leaders based in Japan, the UK and Australia with decades-long success in global and regional roles. We’ve led companies, sales, marketing, operations and IT across multiple industries including technology infrastructure, energy, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, software development, retail and data analytics. We’ve managed large complex organisations across Asia and Europe and have launched 6 successful companies of our own. Each of us has over 20 years’ experience in our respective fields.
Our brains can help power your business onwards and upwards.
No STANDARD TEMPLATES
No COOKIE-CUTTER ANSWERS
PRACTICAL ADVICE FROM SEASONED EXPERTS
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PIECE OF MIND
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go"
-T.S. ELIOT
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Sustained value from the first step
PRAGMATIC, CUSTOMISED ADVICE
Most consulting firms take months to create and deliver a set of proposals that are largely based on standard templates. They often assign junior consultants who have no experience of working in your industry or overcoming the challenges that you are facing.
We are all seasoned professionals who can draw on the knowledge that we have distilled over decades of successfully leading organisations through rapid growth and change. We quickly deliver practical advice that can keep your business a step ahead of the competition.
We can support you and your business, whatever the challenge. From start-ups to multinational enterprises, from business development to operations, from marketing to technology - we have a wealth and depth of real experience that can help you and your organisation reach the next summit.
Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.
- DOUG SCOTT - CLIMBER
Delivering piece of mind
You are not alone...
your journey to the top
Custom-made solutions to drive success
THE SHERPAS
To help guide you through the most challenging terrain
JO WILKINSON
Strategy development
Jo
WILKINSON
Financial Planning
Mentoring
Operational excellence
Education Marketing
Jo is a versatile leader and entrepreneur, who leveraged the experience that she gained over 10 years on the Asia Pacific leadership team of a Fortune 50 company to start three successful businesses. She has turned around struggling product divisions, built sales teams to acquire new business and implemented transformation projects covering thousands of people, multiple IT systems and hundreds of processes in order to accelerate growth.
Jo started her career as an engineer designing specialist materials for the aerospace industry but soon decided that she wanted to build a career managing and leading teams across all business functions. Her first managment roles were in manufacturing operations, logistics and supply chain in the UK. After moving to Japan she spent 5 years learning Japanese and working for Japanese companies, including Honda, then continued to broaden her business perspective with executive leadership roles in sales, marketing, IT and operations at a global technology company.
Sue is a pragmatic and innovative change expert who has spent 30 years planning and delivering complex projects that have helped businesses of all sizes reduce costs and drive growth. She has managed large, international teams delivering multi-million dollar project portfolios at Global Fortune 50 companies as well as set up operations for start-ups from scratch. She has a broad range of skills, from strategic planning through to hands-on project delivery, and her experience spans multiple industry sectors.
Sue started out managing supply chain and operations teams at a manufacturing company before moving to Accenture where she scoped and delivered large-scale, complex change programmes for a number of multi-nationals. Managing transformation across multiple industries and business functions gave her an in-depth perspective on how P&L improvements can be achieved through implementation of the right IT tools aligned with process and organisation structure changes.
SUE
CURRIE
Project Management
Supply Chain
IT Management
Six Sigma
SUE CURRIE
Process Engineering
DAVID WILKINSON
Sales management
David
WILKINSON
Business leadership
Start ups and business development
Data centres and IT
Payments sector
David's combination of technical expertise and commercial acumen has made him a successful leader of enterprises ranging from start-ups to regional businesses for global technology companies in Japan & Asia.
Over 25 years, he has used his sales, strategic planning and P&L management skills to navigate companies through rapid growth, acquisition and transformation. He has built and managed talented teams across sales, marketing and strategy functions and used his knowledge and experience of negotiating multi-million dollar contracts to build a strong client base in a number of sectors including enterprise, technology, financial services and payments.
David's core strength is the creation and execution of sales strategy. His success is based on building strong client & partner relationships and on coaching his team to identify, qualify and close sales opportunities.
Jack is an astute and agile strategic and commercial leader with more than 25 years’ experience across a wide variety of companies and organisations. He has supported established market leading companies in significantly growing their businesses, reinvigorated successful turnarounds and launched, built and sold start ups.
Beginning his career in advertising and marketing services in Australia, Jack progressed quickly into more specialised fields such as strategic planning, business development and marketing strategy and communications operating in categories including industry, finance, health, Government communications and consumer sectors such as food, nutrition and technology. Some of the global companies Jack has supported include Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Pfizer, Sony, Eli Lilly, WPP, Interpublic Group, Novartis, GSK, Nestle, Toyota and American Express as well as Ministries of the Japanese and Australian Governments.
JACK
BLAKEY
Brand Management
Business Strategy
Communications/PR
Omni-channel Marketing
Business Leadership
JACK BLAKEY
KARSTEN
KLEIN
Risk Management
KARSTEN KLEIN
Financial Services
IT Operations
Crypto & Blockchain
Cyber Security
After two decades working for financial institutions in London and Tokyo, Karsten has deep expertise in financial risk management, operations and systems. He also has extensive experience of building and leading cross-functional teams. Karsten's knowledge of risk analysis and governance, coupled with his industry-leading expertise in blockchain and related security technologies, has proved invaluable to clients across a range of market sectors including the nascent cryptocurrency industry.
Now that cyber attacks across all industries are becoming more frequent and data protection requirements more stringent, the bespoke security solutions, risk management and governance processes that he designs and implements are critical to the success of companies of all sizes. He has recently developed solutions for companies in the retail and services sectors as well as a new cryptocurrency exchange.
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing"