
Founder at acidlabs
Canberra Area, Australia

Founder at acidlabs
Canberra Area, Australia
Stephen develops strategy, drives corporate and cultural change, provides mentoring and delivers on bringing a strategic focus to his clients’ web presence with a focus on user experience, collaboration and community.
He helps clients with user experience strategy and design, with online communications internally and externally including business-to-client outreach, and with building organisational expertise with practices and tools that foster collaborative, innovative organisations.
He leads his clients on the journey of change needed to place people at the center of business, helping to change their capacity to retain, distribute and share knowledge and in helping them communicate in a more human way with their clients, customers and stakeholders.
Having spent 12 years in the Australian federal public sector, he is passionate Government 2.0 - reform of government to bring openness, collaboration, empowerment and public engagement to policy-making and program delivery.
He has extensive experience in government and private enterprise and has expertise in corporate communications, social media and networking, knowledge management, web strategy and project management, information architecture, user experience and business analysis.
user experience design, public speaking, social media, social networking, web strategy, business analysis, enterprise 2.0, government 2.0, knowledge work, innovation, collaboration
(Non-Profit; Public Policy industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Working with a range of public and private sector clients to bring powerful digital experiences to their staff, clients and users. Providing strategic advice and developing and implementing programs for collaboration, community building and engagement inside and outside client organisations.
Projects include:
- communications strategy for internal and external channels
- web strategy and implementation including web project management
- business analysis
- social media strategy and implementation for marketing, collaboration and knowledge sharing
- change management and evangelism
- strategy, training and mentoring on collaboration and knowledge work
- knowledge sharing, mentoring and dissemination strategy and implementation
- development and implementation of strategy to support cultural change around collaborative enterprises
- user experience design including information architecture, user testing and information design
business communications, knowledge work, knowledge economy, social computing, web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, digital strategy
Web Standards Group, IIM National Conference 2007, Coworking , BarCamp, Social Media Collective, Office 2.0 Conference, DataPortability, E2EF Conference, Oz-IA 2007, Creative Skills Training Council, LinkedIn Bloggers, St Clare of Assisi School Council, Web Directions, WebDU