Adam Warden is a Global Transformation Executive with over 25 years of experience creating brand and shareholder value through advisory and operational roles across multiple sectors. He is skilled at working with Boards, management, and financial stakeholders to drive strategy and execution in large, complex enterprises, and has a proven ability to identify opportunities, influence and reach alignment with disparate constituents, build high caliber teams, and execute.
He has worked with a spectrum of clients in such industries as airlines, consumer goods, retail, automotive, banking, insurance, resources, and technology over his 25+ years’ experience focused on driving results from strategic investments for enterprises in Europe, Africa and across Asia.
Adam spent six years as a senior Partner at Bain & Co in Australia, an American global management consulting firm. Prior to that he founded and ran Accenture’s South African Strategy practice in the early 90’s, preceding which he helped establish Gemini Consulting in South Africa and the UK.
Adam helped establish United Decisions in 2001, a boutique software and consulting solutions business, to address a gap in the PPM market around Returns on Strategic Investment. During the development stage of the business, he continued his extensive consulting career taking on various Directorships and senior roles on a contract basis.
One of his recent roles was the establishment of Accenture’s Operations Strategy Practice across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, he was retained as the Group Projects Director for Willis International in London. He also took on a number of contract engagements for Bain & Co in the areas of Strategic Due Diligence as well as Enterprise Transformation engagements. His last role via Bain was the Group Transformation Director of Australia’s second largest Media groups, Fairfax, leading a highly successful and publicized transformation from a predominantly print to predominantly digital business.
Today, he has invested and participated in the establishment of various start-ups in the property, media, technology and digital arenas. He continues to sit on the boards of various investments and acts as a strategic advisor and executive coach in both Australia and the USA.