Real challenges. Meaningful progress.
Stalled delivery. Unclear direction. Teams pulling apart. An opportunity that needs a stronger proposition.
These examples show how I investigate what is happening, bring people together and lead practical change. Look for the challenge that feels familiar — the methods can travel beyond the industry where they were first applied.
My experience spans senior leadership, consulting and hands-on delivery, working with boards and executives through to specialists, customers and employees.
What needs to change in your organisation?
Each example starts with the business need, shows how I worked and explains what changed.
Turning a Gaming Community into a Player Engagement Platform
From almost no interaction to 4+ minutes per visit.
An established gaming community wasn't delivering meaningful player engagement. FLP Catalyst provided product leadership, aligned executives, and led hands-on delivery to create a more purposeful, integrated player experience.
Personal performance metrics
Friend comparisons
Real-time comparisons with professionals
The Result
Average engagement rose to more than four minutes per visit/session alongside a substantial increase in daily, weekly and monthly active users.
Accelerating product development in uncompromising environments.
Supporting and speeding up the development of complex products across heavy industry, steam distribution and mining, where physical engineering and connected digital technology need to work together.
The Challenge: Maintaining clarity, transparency and momentum across complex product development projects.
The Contribution: Introduced a delivery mechanism to make project timelines, associated risks and work underway visible—helping teams understand where projects stood and what needed attention.
The Result
Products were delivered on time, within budget and in line with strategy. Teams had greater transparency and clarity around delivery, helping them know when to “put their pens down”, step back and refocus.
Gaming & Social Platforms
Heavy Industrial, Steam & Mining
Connected Consumer Appliances
The Smart Home Ecosystem: Integrating traditional physical home appliances with connected IoT architectures and user interfaces.
Mass Production Profitability: Adapting existing technology into new environments to maximise IP, optimising manufacturing bill of materials (BOM), and assembly processes for scale.
The Goal: Building a technology roadmap fit for purpose that meets the growth aspirations of the business and identifying opportunities for IP and progress towards being a technology leader in the field.
Sports Engineering
From Prototype to Podium: Optimizing high-performance equipment and data-connected wearable tech.
Elite Precision: Balancing mechanical aerodynamics, composite materials, and ergonomics under extreme conditions.
The Goal: De-risking product launches where fractions of a second or millimeter dictate market success.
Automotive Systems
Rigorous Compliance: Navigating dense regulatory frameworks, strict safety standards, and multi-tier supply chains.
Structural Mastery: Applying rigorous physics-based and finite element testing to protect mechanical integrity and safety margins under immense stress.
The Goal: Accelerating engineering cycles without compromising safety margins, structural performance or inflating production costs
Experience across different environments
My background includes the demanding engineering settings shown on this page, alongside sports engineering and professional coaching. The starting point is always your business need.
FLP Catalyst brings experience from a range of demanding technology-led sectors.
Facing a similar challenge?
You do not need to work in the same industry to face a similar problem. Tell me what is happening, what is at stake and what you want to change. We can explore how my experience could help.