Mastering your strategic complexity
Geomastery Advisory spans the gap between geostrategic issues – and the challenges and opportunities presented by and through new and emerging technologies.
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Geomastery Advisory is a boutique strategic advisory firm based in Australia with a focus in the Indo Pacific. We have global networks and partnerships to bring a holistic and contextual view to your environment.
Our thematic specialisation is cyber, technology, policy and economic security—the dominant frameworks in decision-making in an increasingly risky and rapidly changing world.
We provide advisory, scenario development and workshops, awareness training and technology due diligence across a broad range of topics. We also help identify new opportunities for investment, linking resources and people with the smarts and potential of entrepreneurs and technologies.
We bring a combined 50 years of experience in technology, strategy, management and successful economic outcomes.
How we can help
Knowing the what, why and how against the when of broader strategic issues better positions you to anticipate and manage upside and downside risk, improving responsiveness, capability and resilience.
We can help you and your broader value chains better grasp what the geostrategic environment means for your business strategy, operations, regulatory compliance, growth plans and human-technology resource planning.
This includes understanding how events from distant places and industries influence, shape and change your today and tomorrow – as well as challenges much closer to your home base.
Better understand how and why the pace and complexity of changes across the geostrategic landscape affect you and your organisation
Contact us Contact usKnowledge leadership
GeoMissives is our weekly contribution to the global strategy and geopolitical commentariat, via Substack. We take an Australian-centric view on matters at home and abroad, shedding light on issues and challenges not often covered by other Australian sources as well as topical news that have missed different aspects of context.
Between staff writers with deep expertise and experience along with guest authors, a wide range of views are represented.
About us
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CEO
Lesley is one of Australia’s foremost experts in the intersection of complex systems, strategic policy and technology, with particular focus on cyber security, quantum technology and defence industry. In addition to being a co-founder of Geomastery Advisory, she is a founding member of Strategic Analysis Australia, an accomplished author, a mentor to CIOs, CISOs and CTOs and has extensive experience in strategy, policy, management, budget, information technology and research in the Australian Government, industry and academia.
Lesley has held senior roles in the Australian Government Departments of Finance, Defence, and the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Bureau of Meteorology, Digital Transformation Agency and the Office of National Intelligence. She has also held senior roles as an IT and management consultant in private industry and at two universities, including The Australian National University where she was the CEO of the Cyber Institute. As a result, Lesley has delivered large scale projects in complex technology and technical environments as well as providing significant contributions to Australian strategic policy, national security and materiel budgeting and capability risk management. She is also a regular contributor to strategic policy development in allied nations.
Lesley is a member of the audit committees of several Australian government agencies; and recently served on Australia’s Naval Shipbuilding Advisory Board. She has a PhD in information technology and complex systems, an MBA, a Masters in Defence Studies, a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science (Physics) and is an alumna of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Co-founder & Chief Economist
Co-founder & Chief Economist
Michelle is an economist, technologist and investor with an overlay of corporate law. In addition to being a co-founder of Geomastery Advisory, she is an adviser to Humanico and Cynch Security. Michelle is also the independent member of the Board of Essential Energy’s Risk and Cyber Committee, a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology’s Advisory Committee, the Australian Active Cyber Defence Alliance’s Advisory Committee and the Aspen Institute’s Global Cybersecurity Group.
Michelle has previously held roles as Partner with EY Australia; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Cybersecurity; Executive Director and CEO of AustCyber; Non Executive Director of the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre and Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre; Senior Adviser for Cyber Security at ANU National Security College; and various roles in the Australian Government, including at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, where she was instrumental to the delivery of the Government’s first national Cyber Security Strategy released in 2016, author of the nation’s first National Security Strategic Risk Framework and lead for three national security Budgets. Prior to Government, Michelle worked in strategy and risk in Australia’s food manufacturing and advertising industries.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Corporate Law, a Bachelor’s degree in Design (Visual Communications) and is an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.