PARTNER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR Â
Douglas founded ADAPTOVATE to help business teams rapidly scale innovation across their organisations so they can adapt, grow, and sustain success in global markets.​ 
Douglas has had global management roles within JP Morgan, News, and Macquarie and has worked as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group and Accenture as well as becoming a serial entrepreneur and investor. He has helped start-ups and large organisations successfully transform the way they work in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe.​ Â
Douglas has​: Â
Led executive teams in design sprints to solve large and difficult business problems, that lead to workable and testable prototypes and successful implementations​ 
Led large business transformations in retail banking, insurance, investment banking, media, telecommunications and public sector​ 
Supported start-ups and corporates from strategy to design of their business model, through rapid design sprints and implementation to scaled delivery​ 
Led corporate teams to change the way they work so that overwhelmed teams become high performing, collaborative and motivated to deliver valuable output everyday​ 
Led the turnaround of stalled transformation programs using a proven approach, based in agile execution and enterprise architecture, systems thinking and lean principles​ Â
