Rigorous thinking. Human delivery.
I work at the intersection of systems, people and AI, where clarity and alignment create momentum.
Lisa Walton | Systems strategist, co-designer, delivery partner.
20 years across Deloitte, PwC, and elite sport. Olympian. General Manager.
Based in Sydney, Australia, with Aotearoa New Zealand roots.
Available for advisory, strategy and delivery partnerships
Why this work matters
Most complex initiatives don't fail because of a lack of ideas.
They stall when alignment breaks down across organisations, priorities, and delivery teams.
The work isn't just designing the strategy. It's making the strategy hold across the people and systems responsible for delivering it.
Understand the system. Design the future. Deliver what works.
2) NSW Office of Sport - Sport Plus
Two pieces of work for the NSW Office of Sport. Run My Way, where lived experience reframed the problem. The Aboriginal Outcomes Strategy, where the system needed stewardship, not more programs. Making sport part of a bigger impact. From participation to leading indicators of equity, wellbeing and community connection.
↗ Sport Plus framework, positioning sport inside Closing the Gap
↗ New vision, strategy and program of work for the Aboriginal Outcomes team
$1.3M secured for Run My Way through the Play Her Way partnership
Selected Work
1) Systems Design - NSW Gov Agency
Working with NSW Regulatory Environment to diagnose internal experience requirements.
↗ Build process flows along a connecting spine of workflow
↗ Identified key pain points and co-designed future state
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3) NSW Government (DPHI) - NSW Planning Portal
Brought together 232 councils, policy and delivery teams to create a unified approach to the planning portal, turning resistant stakeholders into a shared process that prioritised real user needs.
↗ 98% council satisfaction and a prioritised delivery roadmap
4) Paralympics Australia - Brisbane 2032 Pathway to the Games
Built the strategy for the road to Brisbane 2032 across national roundtables, board alignment, commercial models and a delivery roadmap. Designed with Paralympians, coaches, corporate partners and the executive team.
↗$283M in federal investment secured
5) NSW Department of Education - Whole-of-System Digital Strategy
Led a multi-disciplinary team to design the digital strategy for NSW public education, aligning technology investment with user needs across 1M+ students, teachers and staff. Interrogated competing platform architectures (Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, Apple) to build a strategy that the whole system could stand behind.
↗ 1M+ users across four platforms, aligned under a single strategy
6) HBF Health - East Coast Market Entry
Led a small, ninja-style team to deliver an integrated brand, performance, media, and experience launch for a WA health insurer entering the saturated East Coast market. Aligned specialist functions that usually run in silos, delivering under pressure. Included the award-winning Quokkas campaign.
↗ 325% revenue growth
How I work
The work I’m brought into usually sits across organisations, systems and communities.
Often, there is a real opportunity, new funding, policy focus, or leadership ambition, but not always a clear path to move it forward.
Every engagement starts by mapping the real system, the politics, the people, and the constraints before designing anything. Solutions are built with the people who use them, tested fast, and scaled based on evidence.
I use AI as a force multiplier for sharper strategy and faster prototyping, not to replace thinking, but to extend it. You pay for the strategy. The AI handles the heavy lifting of synthesis and prototyping, compressing what used to take weeks into days, without losing the rigour.
ABOUT THE NAME
Not a shot. A shift.
In hockey, the upright reverse is a strike taken from the reverse side of the stick, upright, composed and controlled. Most players drop low. This shot stays tall, redirecting force with precision instead of power.
It’s about reading the game differently. Using intelligent redirection, reading the system, staying calm under pressure, and finding the angle others miss.
That's the philosophy behind the consultancy. It's a strategy that moves through people with thoughtful courage and surprising agility.