Denis is a creative and strategic thinker, with broad general management, sales, and leadership experience. Denis’ specialist advisory practice works in the corporate and not-for-profit sectors, covering governance, strategy, and risk. His specialist expertise is behavioural governance. Denis’ ground-breaking PhD research identified that the joint board and executive operating as a “Third Team” is the team that influences and affects organisational performance. While external factors, such as compliance and regulation, contribute to performance. It is an identified combination of behavioural characteristics and attributes of the Third Team, which allows the board to influence the executive, who impacts organisational performance. Importantly, these behavioural characteristics are unique to
each of the corporate and not-for-profit sectors.

Denis is a creative and strategic thinker, an accredited company director and chair, board advisor and educator with deep expertise in corporate governance, strategy, and effective board practice. Denis speaks and writes on topical board matters and undertakes governance research. A dynamic thinker, his insightful guidance has proved invaluable to the fortunes of a wide range of enterprises across five continents.