10 Consultants and Experts Share Their Strategies for Success in 2025

Complexity often defines business nowadays, so the right consultant can mean the difference between incremental progress and transformative growth. Expert consultants bring more than just advice; they deliver perspective, strategy, and actionable solutions drawn from years of specialized experience. Whether it’s navigating market shifts, refining operations, or unlocking new revenue streams, consultants have become indispensable partners for organizations striving to stay competitive.

Here are some of today’s leading expert consultants who combine deep domain knowledge with practical insights to help businesses solve problems, seize opportunities, and move forward with confidence.

Tiffany Julie

“Success in 2025 will belong to the founders who align energy, identity, and strategy to scale without burnout,” shares Tiffany Julie, a high-performance coach and creator of the Results Mastery Formula™. She helps entrepreneurs unlock next-level growth by aligning mindset, energy, and execution. Her clients aren’t just scaling revenue; they’re expanding their capacity, resilience, and self-leadership to thrive in today’s fast-paced landscape.

Her story is a powerful example of what’s possible when internal mastery leads. On her 32nd birthday, Tiffany suddenly lost her eyesight. Doctors said it was irreversible. But through neuroplasticity, subconscious rewiring, and bio-hacking, she regained 20/20 vision. Even more remarkably, she built a 7-figure business while navigating blindness and has since generated over 8 figures in revenue across multiple ventures. Her method blends neuroscience, quantum performance tools, and success psychology to help founders grow from the inside out.

As the demands of entrepreneurship evolve, Tiffany teaches a new model of performance grounded in identity alignment rather than hustle. “Success now requires more than strategy,” she says. “It requires stamina, clarity, and an identity strong enough to hold what you’re building.”

To create momentum this week, Tiffany recommends starting with a 3-minute nervous system reset before deep work blocks, identifying one energy-draining task to delegate or rework, and journaling each morning with the question: Who do I need to be to lead powerfully today? These small shifts unlock exponential results when practiced consistently.

For founders ready to grow, Tiffany offers a blueprint for sustainable success. Book a high-performance coaching consultation today.

David Deane-Spread

Most CEOs know what to do during a crisis. The challenge isn’t the plan; it’s executing under pressure when teams fracture, trust erodes, and market confidence wavers.

David Deane-Spread understands this intersection of strategy and human psychology better than most. Drawing from 26 years leading Metattude and a background in covert operations, he’s built a practice around what he calls the “ABC Practice of Leadership.”

Unlike traditional consultants who chase growth, Deane-Spread deliberately limits his focus to five non-competing organizations at a time. The aim is for the client to become the employer and provider of choice in their demographic, valuing the organization beyond mere financial metrics. His engagements run deep, typically 6-24 months, working exclusively with companies committed to fundamental change, not quick fixes.

His methodology, honed through training covert operators for high-stakes missions, centers on three pillars: awareness, adaptability, and trust. Through his Attitudinal Competence, Effective Leadership Behaviour, and Conversation Competence frameworks (hence ABC), executives learn to lead effectively regardless of the conditions. 

The results speak louder than marketing ever could. Metattude operates entirely on referrals, a testament to outcomes that matter: reduced churn, improved alignment, rebuilt trust, and measurable capital returns. Some client relationships span decades and are now even intergenerational.

For scale-ups navigating rapid growth or established companies facing disruption, Deane-Spread’s approach offers something rare: leadership development that actually prepares executives for the moments that define careers and companies.

Connect with David Deane-Spread on LinkedIn to explore how The ABC Practice of Leadership can transform your leadership approach.

Emma Allen

Emma Allen’s career in property investment has been shaped as much by her personal experiences as by her professional expertise. Before founding Active Property Investing (API), she worked with some of the most established names in the industry, advising clients across Australia and abroad. What struck her, however, was how often property was treated purely as a transaction rather than as a vehicle for long-term financial growth. That gap between investment theory and lived outcomes is what she set out to address.

API was built to support time-poor professionals who want to grow wealth through property but lack the resources to navigate the process alone. The firm’s work goes beyond sourcing and acquiring properties: it focuses on research into the economic, environmental, and social dynamics shaping local markets, and on coaching clients to improve their financial literacy alongside their portfolios. By positioning education at the center, Allen has challenged the stereotype of hard-sell real estate, reframing property as a pathway to empowerment.

In 2025, her focus is on guiding investors through a market where limited supply and severe shortages can’t keep pace with population growth and migration—pushing prices higher. Anticipated interest rate cuts and government incentives for first-home buyers are set to fuel demand further, adding momentum to an already strong and resilient market.

Her advice: be strategic. Prepare your finances early, know your parameters, and work with advisors who understand the landscape. Most importantly — act now. The window before the next boom is closing.

For Allen, property is never just about bricks and mortar. It is about building resilience and choice for individuals and families. Through API, she continues to carve out a model where integrity, expertise, and client confidence shape the future of property investment in Australia.

Simon Popley

Under pressure, most leaders look outward at strategy decks, change plans, and stakeholder maps. Simon Popley starts inward. As the founder of Coaching Leadership, Simon has spent the past decade helping leaders recalibrate how they lead and how they think, especially when the rules are unclear, the pace is fast, and the stakes are high. With a background that spans senior executive roles, mental health, and coaching psychology, he works at the edge where personal insight meets systemic complexity. His focus isn’t on giving leaders answers; it’s on sharpening the questions they ask themselves.

Simon’s approach is deliberately unglamorous. There are no silver bullets and no corporate theatre. Instead, he guides leaders through structured, evidence-based coaching that leverages individual reflection, psychometric assessment, and team-based inquiry. It’s a triangulated model that creates space for real shifts in self-awareness, decision-making, and how leadership shows up day to day. Many of his clients come in feeling stretched thin by transformation or volatility, and they leave with a deeper understanding of their own leadership instrument and the ability to tune it under pressure.

Coaching Leadership doesn’t traffic in overconfidence or performative growth. Simon and his team work with people who are serious about doing the hard work of developing themselves, their teams, and ultimately, their organisations. It’s not fast, and it’s not always comfortable, but it’s the kind of leadership development that lasts.

Matt Garvey

Matt Garvey has spent more than twenty years inside the engine rooms of business in IT, organisational development, and talent strategy, watching first-hand how culture and leadership can either power growth or quietly erode it. Over the past decade, Matt has run his own consultancy, sharpening a skill set that blends technical understanding with human insight. Recently, he added formal coaching credentials, a Certificate IV in Workplace and Business Coaching, and ICF Level 1 accreditation, to deepen the work he’s been doing informally for years: helping leaders see themselves clearly, navigate high-stakes change, and lead teams that are both values-aligned and high-performing. 

That dual lens of systems and people is what underpins DEI Tech Solutions, the company he co-founded and now co-leads. The business is built around a belief that organisational performance is inseparable from the lived experience of its people. Its work spans leadership development, cultural strategy, and talent management, with a focus on measurable impact: leaders who adapt and inspire, cultures that stick, and workplaces that attract and retain the right people.

DEI Tech Solutions takes a whole-system approach to leadership growth. Its framework acknowledges that the demands on leaders today are not purely technical or operational; they’re physical, emotional, and purpose-driven. At its core, DEI Tech Solutions isn’t in the business of producing “better” leaders in the traditional sense. It’s about developing leaders who lead better because they live better and are capable of sustaining both performance and themselves. 

Judith O’Callaghan

Digital transformation is often described as open-heart surgery on a living organisation; it’s complex, high-stakes, and unforgiving of error. For Judith O’Callaghan, Founder and Principal of Northpoint Integrity Services, the analogy rings true. With decades of experience guiding large-scale enterprise change, she has witnessed first-hand how costly missteps can derail even the most well-funded initiatives.

Her career has spanned senior leadership roles overseeing ERP implementations, operational overhauls, and transformation projects across industries where precision and foresight are essential. Time and again, she observed a troubling pattern: organisations investing millions without fully understanding their starting point, their risks, or their readiness. The result was predictable—budget blowouts, missed deadlines, and outcomes that fell short of expectations.

Northpoint Integrity Services was founded to break that cycle. At the core of its approach is “Phase Zero,” a disciplined methodology of discovery, analysis, and planning that precedes major transformation investments. Much like diagnostics before surgery, Phase Zero examines the organisation’s operating model, vision, and ERP landscape to identify hidden risks and opportunities. The process delivers a roadmap that reduces uncertainty and equips executives to make informed decisions with confidence.

Considering that fewer than half of enterprise digital initiatives succeed, O’Callaghan argues that preparation is not optional but imperative. Transformation becomes a true business enabler only when pursued with discipline and rigour. For leaders facing the rising complexity of technological change, Phase Zero is the difference between chance and strategy.

Katriel Healy

Katriel Healy has spent the past decade honing her expertise in organisational development, psychology, and business strategy, advising Boards and Executive Teams through some of their most complex moments of change. Her career has spanned workforce redesign, DE&I, leadership development, and cultural transformation; always with a throughline of aligning people strategy to real business performance.

A certified Organisational Coach, Healy works with leaders on the human side of transformation: decision-making under uncertainty, navigating resistance, and building cultures that can sustain momentum. Her approach is shaped by a belief that transformation succeeds when strategy, brand, and employee experience move in lockstep.

As co-founder of EthicAI, she applies that philosophy to one of the defining challenges of our time: how organisations adapt to AI without losing sight of ethics, capability, and culture. EthicAI positions itself between two dominant but insufficient models: the slow, dependency-driven consulting approach of the Big Four and the tool-focused execution of digital agencies. Instead, it helps organisations redesign roles, structures, and systems before technology forces the issue.

Through its Model Method, a co-created, iterative approach, EthicAI works with CEOs, CPOs, and government leaders to embed ethical risk assessment, build AI-era leadership capability, and prepare workforces for structural change. Projects have included creating the world’s first ethical benchmark for large language models and bringing MIT’s EPOCH framework for AI leadership to Australia.

For Healy, the goal is leaving clients feeling stronger, clearer, and ready to lead in a world where technology moves fast, but sound judgment must move faster.

Yiya Sun

For Yiya Sun, artificial intelligence is about solving real problems for real businesses. As the founder and director of Optimise AI Consulting, she has built her practice on helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Australia integrate AI in ways that are accessible, ethical, and directly tied to outcomes.

With an MBA, corporate leadership experience, and certification in AI business strategy from UC Berkeley, Yiya combines strategic acumen with a human-centred lens. She specialises in identifying where AI can genuinely improve operations, whether by automating repetitive tasks, streamlining workflows, or uncovering efficiencies that allow teams to focus on higher-value work. This ability to bridge innovation with everyday practicality has seen Optimise AI recognised in the National AI Centre’s Trusted AI Directory and nominated for the 2025 Australian AI Awards.

What makes her work stand out is a clear focus on usability. Yiya doesn’t just advise, she walks alongside clients to test use cases, build confidence, and integrate AI into existing systems without disruption. Her clients don’t just learn about AI, they start using it.

For Yiya, success is measured in tangible wins, such as processes made easier, staff time reclaimed, and businesses empowered to adapt with clarity. Her focus on tailored, human-first AI adoption has carved out a distinctive role: showing that digital transformation can be both intelligent and accessible.

Narrim Segeal

Narrim Segeal brings to Clout Business Brokers the perspective of someone who has been on both sides of a business sale. Having owned three companies himself, he understands the pressures and priorities of business owners preparing to exit. That background informs his focus on building long-term relationships with clients, where trust and transparency shape every stage of a transaction.

Clout’s approach is deliberately different from the traditional brokerage model. Instead of relying solely on public listings and waiting for buyers to surface, Narrim leads with proactive outreach. He specialises in off-market transactions, a space where opportunities are more exclusive but also more complex to navigate. His method is less about broad marketing and more about headhunting and identifying potential acquirers who may not even be looking but are strategically aligned. From private equity groups to high-net-worth individuals, the process hinges on his ability to make compelling introductions and quickly establish credibility.

This consultative, off-market strategy has positioned Clout as a discreet yet effective partner across sectors like allied health, manufacturing, distribution, and services. By focusing on sourcing the right buyer rather than the widest audience, Narrim helps his clients secure strong sale outcomes while avoiding the disruption that can come with a public listing. The result is a business brokerage model built not just on price, but on relationships, discretion, and a disciplined process that opens doors most sellers wouldn’t otherwise reach.

Genine Lopes

Genine Lopes brings more than two decades of executive-level experience in HR and WHS, navigating environments as varied as corporate boardrooms and frontline operations. Her expertise spans interpreting complex employment instruments, designing people strategies, and guiding leaders through the often-uncomfortable conversations required to resolve workplace issues. 

Before founding Unique Workplace Consulting, Genine applied her expertise within large corporations. That experience sharpened her understanding of the pressure points leaders face: the need to protect brand and reputation while also unlocking performance through people. Today, she channels that insight into supporting small and medium businesses that lack the scale for in-house HR teams but still face the same risks and cultural challenges as larger organisations.

Unique Workplace Consulting operates on the principle that HR is about compliance, prevention, culture, and trust. The approach blends advisory services, HR business partnering and custom HR projects such as workplace investigations, delivered by a small, consistent team that knows each client’s business inside out. By embedding fairness and clarity into every process, the consultancy helps leaders avoid reputational damage and create workplaces where people feel seen and valued.

Genine’s credentials, a Master of Safety, Health & Environment, postgraduate studies in business, and membership with the Australian HR Institute, add depth to her lived experience. But it is her people-first lens, shaped both professionally and personally, that defines her approach: HR as a safeguard, but also as an enabler of resilience, growth, and sustainable business outcomes.

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