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Our team
We are a team of strategists who relish a challenge. Our sharp-minded team utilises innovation, customer-centricity and business model strategies to help support you and deliver value to your organisation. Founded by Dr. Jeffrey Tobias, our team has a combined total of more than 100 years of industry experience. Read on to discover our combined experience or visit our careers page to learn how you can join our expert team.
Dr. Jeffrey Tobias
Managing Director
Jeffrey is an accomplished innovation thought leader and strategist, drawing expertise from the academic, government, entrepreneurial and corporate worlds. Jeffrey’s experience includes growing and leading major Australian corporation, seven years spearheading innovation globally in Cisco’s thought-leadership team and leading The Strategy Group since 2003. Jeffrey is one of Australia’s most prominent experts in the field of Innovation, customer-centricity and business model transformation, regularly presenting to boards and leadership teams across the country.
Jeffrey is also Adjunct Professor and Fellow at the Australian Graduate School of Business at the University of New South Wales. An active angel investor, Jeffrey Tobias is on the boards of various well-known startups.
Jeffrey’s corporate background includes engaging strategically with large corporates such as ANZ bank, Westpac, Telstra, Woolworths, Baker McKenzie, Mirvac, Stryker and Perpetual. He has extensive experience with both state and federal governments in Australia and overseas.
Jeffrey holds a B.Sc (Hons), University Medal and Ph.D from the University of New South Wales.
Pierre Schaupp
Director
Pierre is a senior strategy, CX & innovation strategist. His main area of expertise lies in leveraging customer & market insights to help build better products, services and experiences for organisations. He has in-depth experience creating and embedding customer experience and innovation capabilities within organisations, including new frameworks, tools, talent, governance & funding mechanisms.
Pierre has more than 10 years of experience in business strategy, customer experience and innovation working for major Australian and international organisations in financial services, utilities, the public sector and media.
Pierre is passionate about managing cross-functional teams of people with different backgrounds (researchers, UX/UI designers, engineers, strategists, business consultants, etc.) and reconciling customer desirability with technical feasibility and commercial viability.
Katherine Larish
Head of AI and Founder of InsightWise
Katherine has spent the past decade blending digital intelligence with human intelligence to deliver value for organisations and communities. Previously, Katherine led KPMG’s Smart Cities Practice after completing a Master’s at the University of Oxford. Katherine worked with all levels of government and a range of private sector players to develop Smart City strategies, implementation roadmaps and viable business cases. Subsequently, she joined me&u, an Australian start-up as the Global Director of Growth, leading the company’s successful launch in the UK and US. Then, after spending a year managing multi-million dollar projects in the NSW Government’s Smart Places team, Katherine joined The Strategy Group as Head of AI and founded and built the start-up InsightWise. Katherine adopts a human-centred approach to AI, focused on blending the power of people and AI to solve complex problems. InsightWise is an AI-powered research platform turning data into wisdom and generating insights on demand.
Marcus Naoum
Manager
Marcus has a background in Innovation, Strategy, Service Design, Customer & Employee Experience and Experience Design. He joined The Strategy Group in 2021 where has worked with our diverse portfolio of clients, utilising leading edge human-centred and design thinking frameworks and approaches, to help them develop their strategies and capabilities for growth. He also has an entrepreneurial flair having co-founded a clothing brand.
Marcus has a deep passion for strategic thinking, exploring customer goals and needs, and working with others to solve complex problems through the adoption of a human-centred approach, ensuring all stakeholders involved have a voice in order to create easy, effortless experiences. He has extensive experience leading the design and development of strategies, customer journey maps, design-thinking workshops, and innovative frameworks with clients across a wide range of industries to deliver value.
With a diverse educational background, having graduated from the University of New South Wales with both an Architecture and Commerce degree, he is well-placed to develop creative solutions whilst maintaining a deeper business acumen by integrating an empathetic and deconstructive approach to problem solving.
Liam Hoffman
Delivery Manager
Liam has an adaptive, analytical and creative skillset that combines a deep understanding of human psychology with experience design and strategy. He excels at solving complex problems and creatively communicating strategies that deliver valuable, scalable, and desirable experiences for customers and employees, and more efficient and effective processes for organisations. Liam has led a range of projects with many diverse organisations of varying sizes, including Medical Technology, Mental Health, Retail, Local and State Government, Education, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Aged Care, Construction and Media.
Specialised in user research, UX, service design and strategy, Liam always approaches engagements with a human-centred design approach and an empathetic mindset, ensuring clients feel understood and their customers and employees feel heard and valued. Liam’s depth of experience in qualitative and quantitative research and his eye for creativity and design provide organisations with a robust and pragmatic way to make evidence-based decisions that create lasting change and value. Liam strongly believes in the power of iteration and co-creation and always strives to bring key stakeholders along the journey to create buy-in and alignment.
Ultimately, Liam’s motivation is to deliver valuable experiences and innovative strategies that align customer needs with organisational aspirations in a way that’s easily communicated, sustainable, scalable, and memorable for all parties.
Jessica Wu
Senior Design Strategist
Jess is an up-and-coming service designer who provides a specialised value-add to The Strategy Group using her knowledge in service design methodologies and a generalist background in public sector consulting. She is proficient at navigating through ambiguous and complex problems, where she has supported clients with her research and analysis skills to produce concise and actionable insights while liaising with internal and external stakeholders. Jess has worked with a range of clients across numerous subject matter domains.
Jess is a highly adaptable and capable consultant who will fit into any space she is placed into to create value. She leverages her T-shaped combination of specialist human-centered design expertise and her varied base of client experience to tailor highly contextualised solutions so that they are fit-for-purpose, evidence-based and innovative. As a designer, she is driven by her deep curiosity to discover the unknown and to explore outside the confinements of traditional thinking and ways of working. She strongly believes in bringing her clients along through this highly engaging experience to enable them in achieving their desired objectives.
Jess possesses a double major in Finance and Management and holds a Certificate in Service Design.
Poppy Triscott
Senior Strategist
Poppy is passionate about human-centred design and its potential to create huge value for our clients. She has delivered a variety of digital transformation programmes across multiple industries, taking a design-led approach to help businesses create customer-centric experiences and help solve strategic business problems. Her strong communication and storytelling skills enable her to guide clients along the experience strategy journey and engage and empathise with their customers.
Poppy began her career in London as an analyst at Cognizant before moving into the design world at US-based creative agency Wongdoody, and subsequently Accenture Interactive. She brings her 6+ years of professional experience to help The Strategy Group’s clients define their customer experience strategy and reach their strategic goals.
Poppy is driven by her interest in human behaviour and psychology to enhance customer experiences and improve people’s lives through digital design. She enjoys employing a curious, creative and people-focused lens to her work to deeply understand our client’s customers and design innovative solutions to meet their needs.
Poppy possesses a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Southampton.
Alycia Wolf
Strategist
Alycia has experience in business management and consulting, bringing a creative and pragmatic approach to her role. Having studied design thinking throughout her academic life, her human-centric focus allows her to immerse herself in problem solving and to find value in diverse contexts. Alycia has a strong skillset in data analysis and transformation and a passion for innovation and consulting.
Alycia is experienced in navigating problem areas and creating actionable and feasible solutions, using human centred design methods to reinforce her approach. Her academic background in Business and Creative Intelligence and Innovation has given her unique experience in co-design and solution implementation.
Jasmine Zammit
Strategist
Jasmine has experience in data analytics, project management and strategic problem-solving, leveraging a unique set of valuable skills and knowledge. She is driven by her empathetic mindset and desire to integrate valuable change for all stakeholders in her position at the Strategy Group.
She is passionate about crafting solutions that are underpinned by human-focused design, creativity, and innovation. Jasmine offers the capability to translate complex trends and comprehensive research into actionable insights and recommendations.
She has an academic background with a Bachelor of Business (Management and Finance) and a Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation, studying at the University of Technology, Sydney and Oxford Brookes, England. She has engaged with a diverse range of industries, including government, start-ups, small-medium enterprises, and larger corporations. Thereby, providing Jasmine with practical experience in co-creation and proficiency in story-telling communication.
Karen Goodman
Chief Financial Officer
Karen is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of experience in tax & management accounting. She brings a wealth of experience from both a commercial and tax perspective, providing strategic leadership in all aspects of financial and business management.
Karen’s strength comes from her ability to apply provide insight, driving key strategies and decisions that maximise company values. She operates as a collaborative partner with the executive team in planning, refining & implementing corporate growth strategies & policies.
Karen has a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from the University of New South Wales.
Stacey Morava
Operations Manager
Stacey comes from a family of entrepreneurs and has been involved in the start-up and the successful selling of many businesses she has created in different industries together with assisting a number of businesses reach their full potential.
Stacey’s strength lies within growth and development and building solid relationships with all her clients together with her ability to manage strategic partnerships whilst building a strong and credible reputation within the industry and amongst her peers.
Stacey holds her Cert IV in Small Business Management, Diploma in Business Real Estate Management and a Certificate IV in Marketing Essentials and Public Relations.
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