Your Strategic Partner in Technology Transformation
Senior executive expertise in AI strategy, technology, cyber risk, education, and team empowerment.
Services
Strategic Technology & Transformation
Partnering with leaders to define forward-thinking technology strategies, navigate innovation, and drive realistic business transformation.
Technology Operations, Risk & Compliance
Ensure your technology operations are secure, resilient, and compliant through expert risk management, infrastructure assessment, and hands-on implementation.
Capability Building & Training Programs
Empowering your teams with tailored training programs that build critical technology skills and foster a culture of innovation and security.
Strategic Technology & Transformation
Strategic Direction & Executive Advisory
Partnering with your leadership team to set a clear vision, ensuring technology investments are directly aligned with your most critical business objectives. Our focus is on creating a pragmatic and powerful roadmap for sustainable growth and market leadership.
Executive Advisory: C-suite level guidance to navigate complex technology decisions.
Technology Strategy Development: Crafting comprehensive, long-term technology plans that drive business value.
Change Management Leadership: Steering your organization and its people effectively through transformational change.
Innovation & Opportunity Assessment
Cut through the noise of emerging technologies to identify and capitalize on genuine opportunities. By focusing on practical application and tangible ROI, we turn the potential of AI, automation, and other innovations into a distinct competitive advantage.
AI Strategy & Development: Demystifying AI to find where it can create the most impact for your business.
Innovation & Emerging Tech Guidance: Your expert guide to the evolving technology landscape.
Automation & Use Case Assessment: Pinpointing and validating the best opportunities for automation to boost efficiency and performance.
Transformation & Strategic Execution
Providing the senior leaders oversight to manage your most critical initiatives, modernise foundational technology, and ensure your strategic vision is translated into successful, measurable outcomes.
Technology Modernisation: Addressing legacy systems and technical debt to build an agile, secure, and scalable foundation for the future.
Program & Project Management: Providing expert leadership for strategic initiatives to ensure they are delivered on time and on budget.
AI: Opportunity, Education and Guidance
Cut through the AI hype with a cost-effective, tailored, educational workshop. Practical experience with advice and assistance to implement your own AI solutions.
With experience delivering products and solutions that leverage AI, I partner with you to:
- Deliver one-off or ongoing workshops and education programs to your teams or entire organisation
- Present to senior staff the relevant opportunities, costs, risks and developments as AI evolves
- Create low-cost proof-of-concept AI solutions
- Assess the viability of new and existing initiatives
Partnering with businesses to help you navigate change and achieve your leadership and technology goals.
Technology Operations, Risk & Compliance
IT Resilience & Operational Excellence
Ensure the core of your technology is robust, scalable, and expertly managed to support your business operations without interruption. My focus is on building and maintaining a high-performance technology foundation that you can rely on as you grow.
Architecture and Infrastructure Assessments: Evaluating the health and future-readiness of your technology backbone.
IT Operations and Infrastructure Consulting: Expert guidance to optimize the performance and efficiency of your IT systems.
Software Development (Prototyping and POCs): Creating targeted operational tools and proofs-of-concept to solve specific business challenges.
Cyber Security & Integrated Risk Management
Protect your business from the inside out by proactively managing cyber threats, privacy obligations, and technology compliance. My approach integrates security into your operations, safeguarding your data, reputation, and customer trust.
Cyber Risk and Organizational Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating technology risks across the entire organization.
Privacy Consulting & Compliance: Navigating complex data privacy regulations to ensure you meet your obligations.
Authentication Strategy & Solutions: Implementing modern, secure methods to verify user identities and protect sensitive access.
Technology Compliance Management: Managing adherence to standards like ISO27001 to demonstrate security posture and meet industry requirements.
Staff Development and Management
I am passionate about empowering people. Engaged, positive people and teams uplift organisations and make then stand out. My cost-effective approach can help you develop your leaders and solve the most difficult of problems – people problems.
We listen to you to understand your people goals and challenges. We work with you, leveraging our expertise, to address your short and long term challenges including:
- Staff/Team performance management
- Staff/Team mentoring
- Holistic staff development incorporating both technical and soft skills.
Procurement Assistance
CoSchool supports your procurement activities with specialist tech expertise that is always independent. We can help you have greater confidence with your hardware, software and service procurement activities.
Designing IT solutions and choosing the best technology products and services can be nuanced. Technology solutions almost always cost more and deliver less expected. We have expertise and experience to help including:
- Designing and procuring managed services
- Procuring fleets of hardware such as laptop and desktops
- Understanding technology sectors such as public and private cloud
- Modelling total-cost-of-ownership to assist with decision making.
Capability Building & Training Programs
Workforce Empowerment & Skills Development
Elevate your team’s performance by identifying skill gaps and delivering targeted, hands-on training. My programs are designed to build a more confident, capable, and security-conscious workforce, creating a strong foundation for future growth and innovation.
Talent Development & Team Capability Assessment: Pinpointing strengths and opportunities to build a high-performing technology team.
Custom Training Packages: Tailored learning programs designed to address your team’s specific needs.
Team Development Workshops: Interactive sessions focused on practical skills and collaborative problem-solving.
Cyber Risk & Technology Risk Training for Teams: Equipping your staff with the knowledge to act as your first line of defense against threats.
Leadership Briefings & Strategic Foresight
I prepare your leaders and teams to navigate the future with confidence. These high-level briefings cut through the complexity of emerging technologies, providing the strategic insights needed to anticipate disruption, lead change, and make informed decisions.
Innovation & Emerging Tech Briefings: Concise, high-impact sessions for leaders on what’s coming next in technology.
Navigating AI & Emerging Technology Disruption: Strategic training focused on harnessing disruptive technologies for competitive advantage.
Transformation & Strategic Execution
A winning strategy requires flawless execution. I provide the senior-level program oversight to manage your most critical initiatives, modernize foundational technology, and ensure your strategic vision is translated into successful, measurable outcomes.
Technology Modernisation: Addressing legacy systems and technical debt to build an agile, secure, and scalable foundation for the future.
Program & Project Management: Providing expert leadership for strategic initiatives to ensure they are delivered on time and on budget.
AI: Opportunity, Education and Guidance
Cut through the AI hype with a cost-effective, tailored, educational workshop. Draw on my practical experience with advice and assistance to implement your own AI solutions.
With experience delivering products and solutions that leverage AI, I partner with you to:
- Deliver one-off or ongoing workshops and education programs to your teams or entire organisation
- Present to senior staff the relevant opportunities, costs, risks and developments as AI evolves
- Create low-cost proof-of-concept AI solutions
- Assess the viability of new and existing initiatives
About
Built to Empower Organisations and People
"True innovation happens at the intersection of business strategy and technical capability. My work is to build that bridge and deliver the outcome."
“Ken Emeleus is a senior technology executive with over 20 years of proven success leading digital transformations and ICT operations across the government, education, start-up, and not-for-profit sectors. As an expert in translating complex technical requirements into tangible business outcomes, he has a distinguished track record of delivering significant results.”
Leadership
An accomplished leader. Ken has built successful teams in education, government and technology fields by helping people and businesses overcome challenges to achieve their goals.
Ken has held a number of senior executive leadership roles in public
and independent organisations including at SCEGGS Darlinghurst and the
NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) and as the founder of CoSchool and the Yumi Halivim Project. Senior roles include Founder, CIO,
Director ICT, Director PMO and Head of Services Development.
He has delivered leadership programs, and has mentored many professionals in business and education settings.
Education
Ken has worked extensively across education from STEM teaching to senior leadership roles. Ken has taught Software and Computing, Electronics, Design, Technology and Mathematics.
Ken has worked across, secondary and tertiary education including in both public and private institutions.
Ken has designed and built risk management systems in business and cyber spaces. He has created and delivered risk awareness programs to educate staff and effectively control key business risk. He has provided leadership expertise to Boards, Senior Executive Teams, Audit and Risk Committees (financial) and Technology teams.
Technology and Risk
Ken has built and delivered high volume, time sensitive web applications, mitigated DDoS attacks, coded in many languages, achieved ISO27001 certifications, deployed and managed data centers, private and public cloud, managed large laptop programs, developed and deployed risk-based approaches to service delivery and much more.