Our clients choose us for direct access to senior experience. Our specialist advisors and delivery partners are SMEs who have been in the room where decisions are made.
The team behind Futures Advisory
A hand-picked network of specialist consultants and industry partners that provide clients with the right expertise at the right time.
Unlike traditional firms with rigid structures and layered teams, we operate through a curated ecosystem of specialist consultants and trusted industry partners, giving our clients direct access to the right expertise at exactly the right moment. This model allows us to deliver tailored, high-impact solutions without the overhead, delays, or one-size-fits-all thinking of larger firms.
Our value comes from precision: the ability to connect businesses with top-tier specialists, domain experts, and implementation partners who understand their challenges inside and out. Every engagement is led by senior practitioners, ensuring strategic clarity, practical execution, and measurable outcomes.
Our Senior Advisors and Supporting Team
-
Karina Collins
Founder and Managing Director
Strategy, Leadership and Investments
Karina works alongside CEOs, boards and senior executives to develop commercial growth strategies, drawing on a background in innovation, technology and transformation. With experience in both organic and inorganic strategy and execution, she has operated across multiple sectors, including private, public, not‑for‑profit and small‑to‑medium enterprises.
With more than 25 years in professional services and consulting, Karina has established and led multiple consulting practices for leading professional services organisations, serving global, national and local clients.
Karina is also a co‑founding director of the Queensland Futures Institute, a cross‑sector partnership that pursues accelerated economic and social growth through collaborative public policy reform.
-
Tim Thomas
Director
Strategy, Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Tim brings expert general management and strategic leadership across Asia Pacific, with deep experience in financial services, professional services, international diplomacy and high-growth ventures. He has led market entry and new-venture initiatives across multiple international markets and managed large-scale operations. Skilled in turnaround and transformational programs, Tim drives strategy through to implementation.
His expertise includes distribution and marketing strategy, partnership development, and sales management, alongside regional and in-country business strategy formulation. Tim has extensive experience across bancassurance and alternative distribution channels, and across life insurance, retirement, general insurance and wealth management in both mature and emerging markets.
-
Kylie Sprott
Director
Strategy, Leadership and Communication
Kylie is a Director and Advisory Board Member, with over 30 years of demonstrated experience and achievement across a variety of industries. She provides strategic business advisory services both in Australia and the United Kingdom.
As an experienced business transformation leader, Kylie has worked across IT, financial services, engineering, environmental services, manufacturing, and legal services.She has specialist skills in business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business transformation, technology, people, culture and change management.
-
Adrian Renouf
Director
Strategy, Leadership and Policy
Adrian has over 40 years’ experience spanning the public, not-for-profit and private sectors. This experience includes senior line, executive management and CEO roles, as well as over 20 years as a strategy and management consultant working for clients across Australia with Big 4 firms and his own boutique consulting business.
Adrian’s areas of management and consulting expertise include corporate strategy and planning, organisational reviews, service redesign, cost reduction, performance improvement, financial turnaround, restructuring, business transformation, shared services and asset management. -
Phil Hoey
Director
Strategy, value management, business transformation
Phil has 20 years of global experience delivering enterprise-wide performance transformation, post‑merger integration and strategy setting. He has built a reputation for being outcome‑centric and pragmatic, taking a hands‑on approach and working seamlessly across stakeholder groups.
Phil’s expertise includes:
Performance transformation: cost reduction, stopping revenue leakage, improving efficiency and throughput, zero‑based budgeting, cost‑to‑serve modelling, and operating model design.
Post‑merger integration: pre‑completion strategy, synergy assessment and commercial due diligence, Day‑1 readiness, and 100‑day planning.
Strategy setting: growth and diversification, embedding ESG, and advising on energy transition initiatives.
-
Professor Brett Hayward
Director
Strategy, Leadership and Policy
Brett works closely with business, government and community sectors to help leaders deliver on their missions and create engaged workplaces that attract the talent that differentiates them from their peers.
Brett’s leadership experience led to an appointment as Industry Professor at the University of Queensland Business School, one of the leading business schools in the OECD. Previously he served as a Professor of Practice at QUT.
As an experienced CEO and senior executive, Brett brings a personal and practical understanding of leadership to his advisory and consulting work. He combines this practical perspective with research-informed insight, demonstrating how theoretical ideas play out in real-world organisational contexts. While he works with teams at all levels, executive teams particularly seek his guidance, valuing his direct experience with the issues they face daily.
-
Mandeep Sandu
Director
Digital strategy, transformation and execution
With two decades of international management consulting experience across Europe and the Asia–Pacific region, Mandeep brings deep sectoral knowledge and a proven ability to navigate complex cross-border engagements.
He specialises in crafting digital strategies and leading delivery teams to translate ambitious transformation agendas into practical, deliverable roadmaps. His approach balances pragmatic innovation with disciplined execution: he prioritises commercially focused solutions that unlock new revenue streams and operational efficiencies while managing risk and adhering to regulatory and cultural fit across markets.
He is committed to building stakeholder consensus, aligning executive sponsors, delivery teams, and external partners, to secure sustained investment and accelerate time-to-value. His work emphasises measurable impact, using clear KPIs and robust governance to track progress, refine interventions, and demonstrate tangible improvements in performance and growth.
-
Tory Rowley-James
Director
CX, Data, Digital and Technology
Tory is an innovative, commercially focused leader with over a decade of experience in top-tier consulting firms and industry. She specialises in delivering complex data, technology, and AI transformations across retail, financial services, and the public sector, with a particular interest in consumer markets and customer loyalty.
She has worked with global organisations to deliver data-driven strategy, modern e-commerce platforms, AI-enabled customer experiences, and scalable, sustainable technology infrastructures, including cloud-based CRM and next-generation bespoke e-commerce solutions. Throughout her career Tory has worked with a diverse range of clients including global retailers, Big 4 banks and Queensland Government.
Tory enjoys working closely with clients through a collaborative and agile approach to deliver practical, well vetted and lasting outcomes.
-
Elizabeth Jones
Analyst and project coordinator
Projects, marketing and business development
Elizabeth is a Marketing and Management graduate from QUT, currently contributing to strategic projects at the Queensland Futures Institute (QFI) and Futures Advisory. She specialises in marketing, communications, and stakeholder engagement, blending creative thinking with strategic planning to drive impactful outcomes for business, government and industry leaders. Elizabeth also completed a global exchange at Fordham University in New York, which deepened her focus on innovation and leadership.
Unlike traditional firms, our hybrid model gives clients access to senior talent and strategic thinking alongside a curated network of delivery partners, enabling rapid and percise mobilisation.
Our Delivery Partners
Financial Transactions (M&A)
InterFinancial, an Australian corporate finance advisory firm, combines reliable local expertise with genuine global reach. Clients receive personalised, responsive attention from senior, experienced advisors locally and internationally through InterFinancial’s exclusive partnership with Clairfield International. InterFinancial clients have the world within reach while retaining a dedicated local advisor available by phone.
Technology and Implementation
Davidson’s Technology Consulting services simplify the complexity of unique technology and business challenges. Davidson’s expertise across Digital Transformation, Data, Cloud and technology solutions providing meaningful and sustainable business and customer benefits.
Economics
Torch was founded in 2024 by Mitchell Malone and Ron Zubrik to establish a distinctive advisory experience for clients and staff. Based in Brisbane, the firm delivers services across Australia and into international markets, focusing on empowering informed decision‑making and investment to generate lasting impact for clients and their communities. This ethos is embedded in all activities, enabling the organisation, its clients and the wider community to shine.
Leadership Development
Sprott Methods, founded by Kylie Sprott, helps leaders navigate both the "how" and the "what" on their journey to becoming their best. Using a tailored combination of methods, Sprott Methods cuts through the noise to deliver exactly what leaders need to know.