Matt Burdis

Product and Design business leader

Direction, vision and strategy that drives business success

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Leadership for multi-billion-$ companies, startups & SMEs

Driving change for household brands and new products alike

Proven track record across B2B, B2C and B2B2C

10+ years of experience leading teams and businesses

Methodology

Leveraging a wealth of experience and expertise to create clarity in direction and vision.

Over my career I have developed methodologies and frameworks that have transformed businesses, teams, and product development processes.

Below you will find a selection of frameworks, these frameworks are most successful when tailored for specific business contexts, but also provide off-the-shelf value in many tough environments by establishing clear foundation logic.

The Testing Mindset: driving success through intentional decision-making

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The Holistic Business: multidisciplinary teams and a unified customer experience

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Rational and Irrational: combining qual and quant for informed strategy

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Leadership values

Below is a selection of my core principles for business and team leadership. These expand and change based upon specific contexts, but are all focused around providing logic, purpose and vision to guide businesses and teams to success.

Responsive, rigorous strategy

Maintain rigour over short and long term, balancing evolving customer and business needs and proactively anticipating change to maximise business sustainability.

Process efficiency and efficacy

Create processes, systems and operations to increase repeatability of successes and scale with certainty.

Meaningful innovation

Foster a continuous improvement culture at all levels (including individual), to drive meaningful innovation guided by data-driven frameworks.

Transformational collaboration

Harnessing multidisciplinary teams and interdepartmental/cross-organisational collaboration to achieve optimal outcomes through diversity in thought, opinion and expertise.

Empower and nurture expertise

Know your team, leverage their skills and knowledge through involvement and autonomy. Develop team through guidance and mentorship. Hire to complement and complete.

Inspire, motivate, evangelise

Increase team moral and drive through communication, advocacy, accountability and shared ownership of vision and strategy.

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Career overview

Direction, vision and strategy that drives business success

Executive-level, product, design and business leader with a proven track record of driving scalable and sustainable growth, revenue and innovation across businesses of all sizes.

My experience spans a number of leadership roles across business founder, business leader, product leader and design leader, encompassing multiple industries and business types. As well as wide-ranging roles in agency, freelance and consulting environments.

Contact

Want to work together? Get in touch below:

(no marketing/soliciting/mailing lists)

For full time roles

work@mattburdis.com

Consulting and project work

projects@mattburdis.com

Talks, mentorship, other requests

requests@mattburdis.com

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