digital advisory and solutions with a twist
Core Services
Your Confidential Sounding Board
Do you have a trusted partner with whom you can discuss sensitive or private digital/technology matters openly and honestly, without fear of judgment or breaches of confidentiality? This setup provides a safe space for individuals, especially leaders or executives, to express ideas, share concerns, and navigate challenges while receiving thoughtful feedback, advice, or fresh perspectives through active listening; all will help you think and act better. The main goal of this confidential sounding board is to help you work through complex decisions, gain clarity, and test ideas before taking action within your organisational environment, all with the support of someone invested in your success. Trust and discretion are essential, as these conversations often involve personal, professional, product, or strategic information that must remain private. This arrangement is designed for the long term, with a minimum commitment.
Fractional
Are you seeking additional leadership, change management, or expertise on a long-term, part-time, contract, or temporary basis? Whether you're in a transition period, scaling up, facing challenges, or requiring specialised expertise without the need or expense of a full-time executive, a fractional executive can offer the perfect solution. This approach provides flexible, cost-effective, high-level impact tailored to your immediate or ongoing needs.
M&A & Investment or Divestment DD
Operational due diligence is essential for validating your deal hypothesis and minimising risks. Technology and digital due diligence play a crucial role in uncovering innovation opportunities and determining the costs of achieving synergies. Whether through M&A or other strategic initiatives, there are numerous ways to create value through operational transformations, such as business restructuring, developing target operating models, process re-engineering, and organisation or technology-driven change. Have you thoroughly assessed your readiness by chance? Are you truly prepared to sell or invest? Do you know the optimum solutions to close any gaps, reduce risk or get the best price? If not, schedule an appointment—Chris has extensive experience in conducting due diligence and leading M&A projects, and can bring in proven partners for bigger transactions.
Broken Things
You know things are not how you want them. You suspect things could get worse. You can’t get a dispassionate, impartial perspective on risks and issues. You can’t see the path forward or get a range of options to consider. Your team are burnt out, hurt, stressed or quietly (or otherwise) quitting. If any of this sounds familiar, Chris can help.
Turnaround projects are initiatives to reverse and remediate a period of poor performance. The goal is to stabilise, address the root causes of problems, and set a path to recovery. Leadership plays a crucial role in turnaround projects, as strong, decisive management is needed to make difficult decisions, drive the necessary changes, and rally the organisation or project around a new direction. These assignments are such a buzz, learning time and growth opportunity for your team and business.
These projects are often time-sensitive and require a focused, results-driven approach to quickly restore stability, align the political landscape, harness energy and set the stage for long-term success. i.e. Don’t delay reaching out.
SOLUTIONS & PRACTICAL APPS
If required, Chris can act as a solutions integrator, bringing together various technologies, systems, and software applications to create a cohesive, functioning solution tailored to meet specific business needs. The role involves understanding the unique requirements of an organisation and then selecting, configuring, and integrating different components to work seamlessly together. Chris will involve companies and people he knows and can work with, in order to deliver proven results, so if you want something else, talk to procurement! Chris will start with the “Why” and seek to construct commercials aligned with incentivising all parties.
Other Services
Chris is open to other conversations due to his broad experience, where he feels he can add value, the chemistry is good, and the intent is positive:
- Consulting for Equity – Helping talented individuals and promising start-ups
- Non-executive and Advisory Board – Experienced with risk & audit including a digital perspective, as well as strong experience of board governance and business strategy
- Interventions – A short-term but interesting, ‘look see’ to meet specific business needs – frequently related to Target Operating Models and delivery culture relating to alignment with client needs
- Outsourcing – Chris has extensive experience in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), IT Outsourcing (ITO) and Resourcing (remote, augmentation)
- Sales Diagnostic - Chris will attend sales calls, have confidential and candid conversations with your clients, perform the role of "Innovative Solutions Director" and do anything else to help or challenge your growth engines
The fine art of
mixology
About Chris
Chris is a highly regarded and perceptive business, technology and digital mixologist, with a proven ability to implement strategic initiatives and drive successful transformations. His strengths in team leadership, talent development, and enhancing customer satisfaction, performance, and ROI make him a valuable asset to any organisation seeking growth. Chris is adept at translating complex issues into actionable decisions, balancing risks and opportunities, and fostering a culture of benefits realisation at the board level. His extensive experience spans multiple industries, much of which is headlined on his LinkedIn profile. Chris is recognised for his skills in building high-performing teams, driving innovation, and enhancing shareholder value.
Working with Chris is never dull. He is personable, calm, analytical, commercial, strategic, reflective, and supportive of those endeavouring to do the right things. In order to deliver the best results, Chris needs to understand the Why before the What and the How—which, while the intuitive approach, is not always fashionable.
Once there is clarity of outcomes – the heady art of mixology with people, process, technology and time can be performed. Mixology is the art and science of creating digitally enabled experiences. It involves not only the basic skills of digital design, such as pouring and mixing ingredients, but also a deep understanding of the user experience, techniques, and manifestation that make a great digital business or a great business digital. Chris is the digital mixologist who specialises in creating new and innovative digital solutions, often experimenting with different technologies, techniques, and approaches to craft unique and context-sensitive digital experiences. Digital mixology blends creativity, knowledge of digital tools, consciousness with people and an understanding of the technology behind combining different elements to create the perfect digital experience. Above all, Chris knows that many of the ingredients are what you already have, they often just need to be reframed and reorganised.
Testimonials
Cuts through the techie and gets to the point
Solution translation from the complex to the understandable
Establishes the optimal design of people structures to grow or repair
IT Strategy, Future proofing
Commercialisation of IT
Futurologist – seeing the future of IT and builds teams to make it happen
Distilling a cohesive approach
Innovative and strategic mindset
One of the brightest, creative and strategic thinkers I have worked with in my career
Game-changing innovative architectures
Knows how to optimise your software engineering function
Successfully manages strategic change and transformation
Builds team capabilities – different techniques in different situations
Judo wisdom
Broad view of the puts and takes of large development initiatives
Navigates complex challenges and teams
Unravels seemingly locked knots
Ability to cut through the mess and turnaround
Confidence to bring together the best team possible, listen to them and back them to deliver
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Shake Up Your Digital Strategy
In Digital Mixology, Chris Airey shows leaders how to blend data, technology, and culture to create transformations people actually enjoy—not endure. Ditch bland, cookie-cutter “digital” and learn practical ways to harness your team’s experience, build a supportive environment, and invest only where outcomes are clear. If you want differentiation over mediocrity, this is your recipe.