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Our work is built on the conviction that the hard parts of any business problem are human.

Customers choosing whether to stay with you. Teams working out what to build next. Leaders deciding what to change and what to protect. AI tools succeeding or failing in the hands of the people meant to use them.

Technology and strategy matter, but they only matter when they serve the people and the work that produces results. Everything we do starts there.

Our second conviction is about what we choose not to do. Most consulting effort goes into the wrong things - scoped too broadly, delivered with confidence, and disconnected from the decisions that actually move the business. We’d rather do less and have it count. That means starting with a clear diagnosis, scoping work to the choices that matter, and being willing to say when the work in front of us won’t shift the dial. That discipline at the start is what makes the work worth paying for at the end.

We work as a single global practice across Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and the United Kingdom. This means the same senior people with the same standards, wherever the engagement is.

That practice spans four connected disciplines: strategy and innovation, human-centred experience design, data, analytics and AI, and technology and engineering. Together they cover the full arc of a transformation - from diagnosing what actually needs to change, through to building the things that deliver it.

We are part of Elemental Concept, a global technology consultancy bringing together leaders in AI, customer experience, change, and engineering. The combined group gives our clients access to senior expertise across the full breadth of digital and AI transformation, in whichever market they operate.

About Elemental Concept

We are Elemental Concept, a global technology consultancy with deep roots in customer experience through our New Zealand practice, Purple Shirt. Together we give clients access to senior expertise across AI, customer experience, and engineering - wherever they operate.

The leadership team

Steve Alexander

Chief Executive Officer

Aung Win Myat

Chief Technology Officer

Blake Lough

Chief Experience Officer

Chris Green

Head of Strategy

Gaven Henry

Chief Information Officer

Alok Ashtikar

Head of AI

Our latest work

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