Experience

10,000 Hours

• Australia
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• High-Stakes Facilitator, Speaker & Adult Educator :: Specialists in Dealing with Uncertainty.

  • Nov 2012 - Present

  ~ ~ ~ Loving my 24th year in adult education ~ ~ ~ Most days I am working in the business at the front of the room at a conference, offsite, or executive education session for the brightest talent from the best organisations across industry. Specialist experience with senior teams and bright cohorts who don't suffer fools. On the other days I am working on the business which means growing our in-demand team of seasoned professionals who want to work with the best content shaped by bright colleagues and the latest from the science of expertise and the complexity sciences. Also spend time with our Chairman shaping our proprietary, adaptive, sophisticated and compelling engagement model for the team. 10,000 Hours' clients hire us to help their senior teams to deal with uncertainty and complexity, to sell in complex environments, and to engage small and large rooms of stakeholders with compelling stories that work. 10,000 Hours colleagues join this purpose-led business because they want to work with smart people doing interesting things with fascinating organisations. If you're a smart seasoned professional B2B enterprise-grade sales professional or C-suite group facilitator with 10+ years experience honing your craft year after year, we would love to hear from you. Show less



Pod&Hive

• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  Pod & Hive. Dolphins play in pods. Bees work in hives. Teams who play together work together. Better. At Pod & Hive we are building our range of immersive online team simulations to help teams work together and play together. Grounded in robust organisational development theory, gloriously themed, and cloud-hosted - our simulations are for progressive and playful internal and external OD consultants and people leaders everywhere. Pod & Hive. Dolphins play in pods. Bees work in hives. Teams who play together work together. Better. At Pod & Hive we are building our range of immersive online team simulations to help teams work together and play together. Grounded in robust organisational development theory, gloriously themed, and cloud-hosted - our simulations are for progressive and playful internal and external OD consultants and people leaders everywhere.



Phuel / Oxygen Learning

• Co-founder & Joint MD

  • Nov 1999 - Nov 2012

  My entrepreneurial Act 1. Co-founded, built, grew, and sold Oxygen Learning / Phuel to ASX-listed STW Group. From 3 guys with a hunch and a handshake we grew it to 18 people in 3 offices delivering around 1,000 days of live facilitation, workshop training, and keynote speaking every year. I worked on the business finding, testing and scaling its content. I worked in the business doing 160 days on my feet in front of clients every year for 13 years. We sold the business to John Singleton's STW Group over 6 years from 2005 to 2011. A richly textured and glorious commercial experience. Show less



SaaS Start-Up Train Smash!

• Angel Investor, Sales & Marketing, Motivated Idiot.

  • Jan 2010 - Jun 2012

  Smoked six figures of hard-earned in a SaaS platform business for brain training. If you take everything we know today about Lean Start-up and minimum viable product and invert it you get the catalogue of mistakes I made. I worked with wonderful passionate driven people on what proved to be really bad idea. Deep and precious entrepreneurial scar tissue carried proudly today. Smoked six figures of hard-earned in a SaaS platform business for brain training. If you take everything we know today about Lean Start-up and minimum viable product and invert it you get the catalogue of mistakes I made. I worked with wonderful passionate driven people on what proved to be really bad idea. Deep and precious entrepreneurial scar tissue carried proudly today.



RogenSi

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Feb 1997 - Nov 1999

  Then the youngest guy they had ever hired. I learnt about equine quarantine, freight on shuttlecocks, and sourcing thousands of volunteers as I had the unique pleasure of teaching presentation skills to the people organising the 2000 Sydney Olympics and Paralympic Games. It was a fabulous experience and I loved it. Today when people ask me "So, where did you cut your professional speaking teeth?" I say, "Rogen." Then the youngest guy they had ever hired. I learnt about equine quarantine, freight on shuttlecocks, and sourcing thousands of volunteers as I had the unique pleasure of teaching presentation skills to the people organising the 2000 Sydney Olympics and Paralympic Games. It was a fabulous experience and I loved it. Today when people ask me "So, where did you cut your professional speaking teeth?" I say, "Rogen."



Mitsubishi Electric

• Japan
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Manager

  • Feb 1995 - Jun 1996

  Excitement was a new 4-head Multi-System VCR and teletext being included in the 78 inch CRT TV. And we had just seen early versions of DVD players costing $4,000. Not to worry, we still had a good collection of Laser Discs. It was pitching to Brashs, Harvey's, Clive Peters, Retravision, Joyce Mayne, and the emerging JB. Back in the glory days when you could not put a plasma in your trolley next to your mineral water and bananas! Learnt a great appreciation for channels, supply chain and margin compression. Oh, and SPIV's... Show less



Colgate Palmolive

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate

  • Feb 1994 - Jan 1995

  White station wagon, staple gun, bin wrap, planogram printout and gondola ends! A glorious experience in the tough world of FMCG retail. Although looking back when compared to today - we had it easy! An off-location display was only a couple of footy tickets away, and extra facings were easy to come by if you relayed the whole category at 6:30am on a Monday morning. Years later, I still can't stop myself from facing up the stock as I wander past oral care and hard-surface cleaning! White station wagon, staple gun, bin wrap, planogram printout and gondola ends! A glorious experience in the tough world of FMCG retail. Although looking back when compared to today - we had it easy! An off-location display was only a couple of footy tickets away, and extra facings were easy to come by if you relayed the whole category at 6:30am on a Monday morning. Years later, I still can't stop myself from facing up the stock as I wander past oral care and hard-surface cleaning!



PwC

• Professional Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergrad Auditor

  • Feb 1990 - Jan 1994

  Bank-recs, wages, and Lotus 1-2-3 on a Compaq mono-coloured semi-portable PC - A wonderful start to working life from the commandeered client meeting room on site at the audit. Learnt a tremendous respect for the accounting profession and the at times delicate tensions in assurance work. Bank-recs, wages, and Lotus 1-2-3 on a Compaq mono-coloured semi-portable PC - A wonderful start to working life from the commandeered client meeting room on site at the audit. Learnt a tremendous respect for the accounting profession and the at times delicate tensions in assurance work.