strategy & leadership advisor, facilitator and mentor

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Welcome to the home of Dr David Blyth (DDB). Let me outline what I do, and introduce myself.

My clients are typically grappling with one or more strategic challenges:

  • making sense of an environment that never stops shifting;

  • getting executives, the broader leadership teams and boards genuinely aligned around strategic intent & priorities

  • translating intent into outcomes, which turns out to be harder than it looks

I work with executives, boards and senior leadership teams as advisor, facilitator and mentor. My practice draws on early career executive experience, a decade as a board member and more than twenty years of working with executives across resources, infrastructure, professional services and the public sector.

Add to this, 25 years teaching business strategy on MBA programs and doctoral research into the barriers to transformational leadership: what holds leaders back?

My measure of a good engagement? It’s much more than just the immediate outputs.  It’s the quality of the conversations — and whether they continue after I've left the room. In a world where AI can generate a strategy document in minutes, the rigour and depth of the conversation will increasingly become the real differentiator. For leaders and for advisors.

My promise: expertise; experience; energy. At the intersection of aspiration and pragmatism. 

The short (2 ½ minute) videos below offer insights from thought leaders in strategy.