Hi, I’m Steven.

My life’s purpose is to practice shoshin - the beginner’s mind.

To meet all things as if it is for the first time, to create with a child’s freedom, to learn with an empty mind.

Here’s a bit more about me below.

have you ever said this?

“It seems like we are all working incredibly hard. That said, I’m not sure we are working the same or the right direction.”

“We’ve got the ideas in the company. But we can’t seem to get things beyond that stage, get everyone contributing, make an idea real.

“Wouldn’t it be great to get a second opinion - better yet, hands on guidance - from someone who’s kicked off innovation programs, injected energy into companies?”

“We need to find an actual better, more productive way to work. The last agile coach did not succeed. We only have one chance, so we want to get it right.”

If the answer is yes to any of those, contact me.

some things I have done

Chief Executive Officer

  • No Moss Co, a management and technology consultancy, Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Star, winner multiple Good Design Awards

  • Cause Corps International, the world’s largest micro-volunteering platform, with 8,600 volunteers in a dozen global locations doing 20,000 acts of good collectively.

Chief Operating Officer

  • Comet CX, an AI and Salesforce consultancy.

Director of Agility

  • Oceania: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Velocity Frequent Flyer, Air New Zealand, Australian Special Forces, Optus

  • Asia: Riot Tencent (Hong Kong), Globe Telecom (Manila), Etihad (Abu Dhabi)

  • US: Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Macquarie Bank

Lecturer

  • Australian Institute of Management Data Science

  • Academy Xi Artificial Intelligence

  • University of Melbourne, University of Technology Sydney Entrepreneurship, Modern Ways of Working

Author & Illustrator

  • The ABCs of AI, www.remarekids.com

  • Various speculative fiction, fantasy and poetry works.

who I am

Melbourne born and raised to refugee parents from Vietnam, who are themselves children of refugees from China, I grew up the eldest of 20-odd cousins (just counting the ones in Melbourne).

My mother showed me the importance of knowing who you were and where you came from; my father gifted me with his love of people and talent for words.

My 爺爺 yeye - paternal grandfather - demonstrated to me with his life the fulfilment that comes from serving others with an open heart, and how good life can be if you let yourself have simplicity and happiness.

I live a life of service and artistic creation. By supporting leaders in their endeavours to make work more human, I spend that abundance in writing poetry in the forests of Hakone, teaching the next generation about how to treat other humans well, and writing stories about the ways that better worlds could be.