Vaughan Broderick

Wiley

Co-Author, Innovation in Action

Helping organisations become future-ready & thrive in constant disruption through field-tested human-centred innovation methods

- Customer insights
- Customer experience design
- Growth strategy
- Service design
- Lean innovation methods
- Workshop design and facilitation
– Human-centred design capability programmes

🔥 Highlighted Testimonials:

"The experience was so positive and impactful for us that we have asked Vaughan back on numerous occasions to assist us with designing services.  His expertise in design thinking coupled with an engaging personal style makes him a valued member of the team that is transforming our organisation." 
- Nick Scott, General Manager, Service Delivery, Brackenridge

"Vaughan facilitated our value proposition workshop as we were at a loss as to how to get started. Vaughan skilfully challenged our thinking through a range of activities and questioning, and we left the workshops feeling a sense of clarity, newfound enthusiasm and collective understanding. We would not hesitate to use Vaughan again in the future.” 
- Sara Luckman, Strategy Manager, NZ Young Farmers

"The group greatly appreciated the interactive nature of the program combined with the opportunity to think and reflect on how the practices and skills developed would benefit the public sector and challenges with which they are grappling. Thanks Vaughan, hopefully we can repeat this next year." 
- Dr. Chris Vas, General Manager Food Innovation Precinct, Western Australia

Founder - Innovation Lab

University of Canterbury

Lecturer - Innovation by Design - July 2023 - Present

- Teaching human-centred design to business masters students.

Guest Coach - Executive MBA March 2023 - Present

- Coaching MBA innovation students

Mentor - Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Mar 2021- Present

- Mentoring student founders to utilise design thinking and lean innovation methods

Impact Lead - Centre for Entrepreneurship - July 2023 - Present

Innovation Lecturer - Executive MBA Coach - Startup Coach

Festival for the Future

Guest innovation workshop facilitator at Aotearoa’s biggest leadership and innovation summit.

Guest Workshop Facilitator

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand

Authoring training content on Business Models, Value Propositions, Pitching & Storytelling, Strategy and Creative Problem-solving using a design thinking approach

Author - Strategy and Creative Problem-solving

Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury

Helping public sector organisations use design thinking to collaborate, innovate and create more insight driven, human-centric organisations.

+ Design thinking projects
+ Workshop facilitation
+ Design research
+ Prototyping and testing

Design Thinking Coach

Brackenridge Services Ltd

Helping to reimagine, redesign and implement service and system change to meet regulatory requirements, exceed client and stakeholder experiences and outcomes. So far, we have redesigned the assessment and transition process for individual service offerings that have resulted in reduced lead time, improved quality, reduced risk and increased customer experience and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:
Co-designing service and innovation
Stakeholder engagement and communication
Amplifying the voice of the customer
Change leadership and embedding new ways of working

Change and Innovation Project Manager

Consulting in the social services sector as part of my MBA (and post-graduation), I am leading the digital transformation of Life Storybooks for young people in care. This project requires multi-stakeholder management, the development and maintenance of key relationships across all levels, meeting and surpassing key project deliverables and the development of effective change leadership implementation strategies.

The project necessitated the effective use of design thinking, lean and change leadership methodologies to manage various stages of the project and included the establishment of the additional project supporting elements such as foundation and design principles, organisational structures and development specifications.

Innovation Project Manager

Sabbatical

Taking a year off to travel with my family provided a great opportunity for many amazing experiences together. The most valuable part was how we developed personally and as a family when confronted with challenges and obstacles that required adaptability, problem-solving, teamwork and coping skills.

World Traveler

Broderick Consulting Ltd

Broderick Consulting was in the business of helping clients achieve their financial goals. I founded and grew a successful business serving hundreds of clients throughout New Zealand until a successful sale was executed.

Founder and Adviser 

Innovation coach helping you & your organisation thrive in disruption | Teaching proven practical methods to help people innovate | UC MBA | Follow for posts about startups, innovation & leadership

Innovation shouldn’t feel like pressure without progress.

Yet many leaders I work with are stuck in exactly that space.

They’re expected to move fast—but don’t have time to think.
They’re leading innovation—but unclear whether they’re solving the right problem.
They’ve run strategy sessions and pilots—but can’t make the change stick.

I help leaders and teams slow down where it matters—so they can move faster where it counts.

My work focuses on four key challenges:

Understanding the real problem behind the problem (no more jumping to solutions)
Designing smarter decisions in complexity (move forward with clarity, not chaos)
Aligning teams and stakeholders (so change feels shared, not forced)
Implementing innovation that sticks (not stalls)

I blend psychology, human-centred design, and practical strategy to help people turn insight into action - especially when the stakes are high and the path isn’t obvious.

As an innovation coach, advisor and educator, I’ve supported 225+ teams across business, government, and education to design smarter decisions and lead real change.

I’m known as The Slow Strategist - not because I move slowly, but because I help leaders pause where it matters most. Before assumptions harden. Before decisions get baked in. Before “solution mode” derails the real work.

I’m the co-author of Innovation in Action: Unlock Curiosity, Creativity and Clarity with the DUCTRI Method, and I write a weekly newsletter read by 10,000+ professionals who want to lead with confidence - not chaos.

Earlier in my career, I founded and scaled a financial services business to 2,000+ clients and $500M in assets. Burnout led to a complete reinvention: I sold the company, travelled through 23 countries with my family, completed an Exec MBA, and retrained in human-centred innovation.

That reset equipped me with the real skills leaders need to thrive in a VUCA world: slowing down to think clearly, making human-centred decisions in ambiguity, and turning insight into action.

If you’re:
	•	Leading innovation on a complex challenge
	•	Building something new from scratch
	•	Or stuck trying to make change stick

…here’s how I can help:

1. Read by 10,000+ smart professionals each week
-> https://vaughanbroderick.com/newsletter/

2. Join 275+ smart innovators on the Innovation in Action book waitlist:
-> https://vaughanbroderick.com/the-ductri-playbook/

3. Workshops | Consulting | Speaking | Innovation Training
-> Let’s have a conversation: DM me

Research Associate

Co-authoring academic research papers on innovation and design thinking.

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Remote Work Leadership

As the founder of "Orion Coaching and Consulting" (aka Remote Work Leadership), I coach and train IT leaders & middle managers to employ Remote Work Leadership Strategies, insights and processes to produce belonging, connectivity and high performance in Remote Teams.

Founder

Barclays

• Achieving and maintaining the gold standard in engineering metrics by tracking the key metrics for code quality, capacity, developer productivity, platform stability, technical debt etc. 
• Optimizing the costs and leading innovation to maximize revenue generation.
• Empowering the teams by leading the skill upliftment, career development initiatives for them.
• Continuously improving the process and chasing excellence in technical delivery by regularly documenting and implementing the lessons learned after each release.
• Ensuring seamless delivery by implementing best practices in agile project management.
• Leading design and architecture reviews.

Vice President - Product Technology

vConstruct Private Limited

* Led a global multicultural development team of 10 developers while adding value to the clients by creating a ground breaking eCommerce application for PREFAB components leveraging cloud technology.
* Exemplified engineering excellence by leading an innovative development team in coming up with a high performance architecture for complex web apps.
* Received multiple appreciations from business and higher management.
[Tech stack: .net core, Azure cloud, PowerApps, Microsoft Dynamics 365]

Technical Lead

Calibre Mindware Programming Pvt. Ltd.

● Responsible for helping the team with technical / design issues. Participating in analysis, design, implementation, planning /
execution and monitoring the project and team performance. Performing code reviews and laying out coding guidelines.
● Guiding team with design decisions, helping them resolve critical issues, sharing project status reports to client and higher
management.

Associate Technical Manager

BNY Mellon

* Led a global multicultural development team of 12 developers while adding value to the clients of "Global Cash Flow" manager product by constantly improving the code quality, delivery, and product performance by conducting regular code and design reviews. 
* Applied the best practices of agile project management so as to continuously improve the process.
* Improved collaboration with the business team by creating successful partnerships. 
* Received multiple appreciations from business and higher management.
Multiple projects:
[Tech stack: C#, MVC, WCF, SQL Server 2012, SSRS, jQuery, Angular, PEGA 7]

Project Lead

Fasttrack Software Services Pvt Ltd

Acted as a Project Lead handing 2 projects - Project Tracker and LMS.

Senior Software Engineer (Project Lead)

Cognizant

Handled 3 projects and a team of 8 developers.
Collaborated with business client to understand the requirements and communicate the same with the team.
Ensure project compliance with company Software Quality processes.
Handle the tasks of providing technical leadership and guidance to other SW Engineers
Responsible for software design reviews, peer code reviews and software acceptance test activities on a regular basis
Worked as a developer-module lead for 12 months (SQL Server , JSP, ASP.Net, C#.net)
Organization; Perform responsibilities of designing, installing, coding, configuring, developing, testing, debugging, and documenting application programs by following program specifications

Responsible for code review, ensuring successful implementation of project and delivery.
Organization

UI Team Lead ( JP Morgan Chase )

Yardi Systems

* Worked on Vista framework, Credit Card Processing, rdSAP for UK social housing, X9 file processing etc.
* Module Lead for "Credit Card Processing".

Programmer-ii ( Module Lead )

ProSES Technology Inc

Worked as a web developer (asp.net) to develop a product for &quot;Critical Path Project Management&quot;.
Acquired knowledge on &quot;critical chain&quot; and &quot;critical path&quot; project management.

Software Developer

Gofloaters Flexi Work Visionary Jury 2024 | Remote Work Leadership Expert - Belonging, Bonnectivity & High Performance | Speaker | Best Selling Author | Seasoned Technology Leader

In a world that’s increasingly remote, disconnected, and fast-moving, I help tech leaders create something rare: teams that care.

For almost over 2 decades, I’ve moved from writing code to building cultures — leading distributed engineering teams that deliver results not just with efficiency, but with empathy. I’ve led global teams across banking, real estate, and consumer goods, turning ambiguity into clarity, silos into collaboration, and complexity into growth.

Today, I coach IT leaders to do the same. To build teams that belong, connect and deliver peak performance. To design systems that scale. To lead with intention.

I’ve shared these ideas as an Amazon bestselling author and speaker - because work doesn’t have to feel transactional. It can feel meaningful. It can feel human.
I believe remote work isn’t about working from anywhere. It’s about leading from a place of trust.

If that speaks to you, let’s connect.

🛠️ What I bring to the table:
– Engineering leadership in remote-first environments
– Architecture that scales and adapts
– Culture that drives performance
– Coaching that empowers leaders
– A lens that sees people before processes

Also: music, nature, and long walks where the best ideas show up.

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