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The record distinguishes between positions and appointments held by the principal and work commissioned through Praxis Global. The first establishes the experience on which the practice draws. The second records work undertaken through the practice.
Appointments, partnerships and business development held by the principal. Engagements carried out through the practice are listed separately below, and are not counted here.
Convening across institutions, University of Pretoria.
Institutional and governance roles. These are not client engagements of the practice. They establish the experience on which the practice draws.
Carleton University
Leads the development of the University's next institutional strategy within its 2042 centenary horizon, reporting to the President. Accountable for the governance and strategy architecture, for the integrity and quality of the process, and for its progression through Senate endorsement to Board of Governors approval in April 2027.
Halfway River Group of Companies
Founding director of a community-owned corporate group holding a diversified portfolio of operating businesses. Chair of the CEO compensation committee; member of the audit and finance, strategy, and board renewal committees. Annual revenue has grown from approximately $1 million to approximately $40 million over the period of the directorship.
Brinkman Reforestation and Brinkman Living Infrastructure
Strategic oversight of a private company group in reforestation, ecological restoration and living infrastructure, where long-term value is shaped by carbon, biodiversity and land-use policy. Compensation and strategy committees.
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Built and led a distributed education network across more than twenty-five post-secondary institutions, with partnerships spanning Indigenous communities, governments, corporations and philanthropy. Recruited and led a team of seven. More than CAD 3 million raised in scholarships and endowed bursaries, including a CAD 2.5 million endowment from the Joyce Family Foundation. Recognised with the Government of Canada's Deputy Minister's Recognition Award for Collaboration and Partnership.
Segal Graduate School of Business, Simon Fraser University
Full profit and loss accountability for an executive education business of approximately CAD 2 million in annual revenue, a team of fourteen, and fifteen to twenty custom programmes a year. Authored the Integrated Consulting Methodology and the Integrated Learning Methodology. The unit received the Canadian Council on Learning Award for Excellence in Learning in 2009.
Clients spanned mining and resources, energy and utilities, technology, engineering, insurance and financial services, professional services, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, in Canada and internationally.
The work ranged from single workshops to multi-year programmes: a customised graduate diploma and MBA in sustainable business delivered on mine sites, a corporate university management series built over eight years, integrated leadership development spanning two levels of management, and action learning projects sponsored and assessed by client executive teams.
Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
Established a new senior leadership portfolio spanning organisational culture, faculty and student experience, academic policy and external engagement. Member of Faculty Executive.
Accountable for faculty-wide hiring governance across all permanent and contract appointments, including the search and selection frameworks themselves and their integration with institutional academic policy. Served on the selection committees for the Robbins-Ollivier Award for Excellence in Equity and the university's student research award in the same field, and guest edited a journal special issue on the subject.
Live production · Accenture · Abraxas Consulting · University of Westminster
Founded and ran a live production company for a decade as an owner-operator, carrying contracting and capital risk. Production and tour management from clubs and theatres through to arenas, stadiums and festivals, for artists including Tina Turner, Rush, Radiohead, ZZ Top, Tom Jones, Elvis Costello and David Byrne. That work became the empirical basis of the Cambridge doctoral research.
Senior Manager and Global Lead for the music industry within Accenture's communications, media and entertainment practice from 2000 to 2002. Led digital transformation and platform strategy engagements for multinational clients across Europe, Asia and North America, including digital content and rights management strategy through the sector's disruption. Clients included Cisco, AT&T, Warner Music Group, SAP and BUMA/STEMRA.
Founder of Abraxas Consulting, working on platform strategy and digital transformation.
Earlier, Senior Lecturer and Director of the MA in Music Business Management at the University of Westminster from 2002 to 2006, where he established and chaired an industry advisory board, alongside a visiting lectureship in MA Arts Management at City, University of London.
Work commissioned from and carried out through Praxis Global, listed separately from the roles above so that the relationship in each case is clear. Two of these situations are set out at length in practice.
Named framework · Consumer and startup market
Taking an established differentiation framework from workshop delivery into a commercial structure: product architecture across price tiers, a publishing route, a digital assessment path, and the sequencing between them. Engaged and underway.
Corporate capability building
A thinking and capability programme codified, packaged and taken to market, reaching CAD 100,000 in first corporate deployment revenue with further deployment contracted.
Behavioural matching platform
A proprietary matching methodology packaged into a market-facing product suite, deployed in institutional settings, positioned for an enterprise channel, and merged with a second venture into a single commercial entity.
Education and workforce technology
Repositioning a long-running platform build from education operator to capability infrastructure for institutional investors. Full investor narrative produced and in circulation. Federal grant and accelerator applications developed around the platform architecture.
Private higher education, United Kingdom market entry
Co-developed the proposition, market analysis and business architecture for a private higher education group targeting entry to the United Kingdom sector, structured around institutional partnership, educational technology and consulting delivery. Included sector analysis of demand, existing provision and changing skills requirements, an operating model across delivery units, and a partnership route into accredited provision.
Client not named
Naming, value proposition and brand identity; an investor document taken through multiple review cycles; and the operating scaffolding of entity structure, advisory cadence and financial introductions. Investor conversations are live.
Two owners, sector not disclosed
Facilitation of a development partnership structured across two owners, covering the ownership model, technical scenario framing, pre-feasibility coordination and the funding pathway. Current.
Reports commissioned by external organisations and delivered in an institutional capacity. Included because they show the diagnostic method applied to a client question, and because the clients can be named.
Procurement survey reports on Indigenous procurement in Canada, with a second survey this year. Commissioned reports on urban reserves and a set of accompanying case studies.
2023, 2026Report on the British Columbia Indigenous housing shortfall.
2021Co-produced a documentary following a leadership exchange that placed Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal executives inside each other's workplaces.
2011