Gavin's first seven years were in the Air Force, as a communications and information systems controller on computerised weapons systems. Nothing there ran on enthusiasm. It's where he learned to work out what actually matters before touching anything.
Then came 20 years running technology inside business, including digital transformation work at Mars and Motorola, followed by startups he built and scaled from nothing. Budgets, boards and deadlines attached to all of it, which is why his keynotes come with an order of work rather than a list of tools.
Now he runs his own business on a team of AI agents, and works with leaders across Australia who want the plan as well as the inspiration. A keynote changes how a room thinks about what's possible, and a workshop sends them home with their first agent scoped and its job written down.
Home is Ballarat, west of Melbourne, and the work runs across the country: keynotes and workshops in most capital cities, a book on AI for small business written in the weeks after ChatGPT launched, and a program that takes solo operators through building their first agents. Between events, the agents that run Gavin's own business keep the site, the CRM and the writing moving.
