Nicole McMahon is the Founder and CEO of Digitech Consulting Group, partnering with CEOs to drive future-focused strategic outcomes and innovation. She is a highly experienced visionary CEO, providing advice, strategy, and influence to create and shape markets and drive transformative business outcomes across government, healthcare, and business.
Starting her career as a research scientist and journalist, Nicole pivoted into ICT over 20 years ago, recognising its importance for Australia’s domestic and global success. Today, she embraces emerging ICT capabilities that provide disruption and strategic opportunities to ensure organisations can thrive into the future in a digital economy.
Nicole has a proven track record of driving strategy, transformation, and growth for iconic organisations within health, ICT, critical industries, and governments, including Telstra, Hewlett-Packard, and Medibank Private (1800RESPECT). She spearheads outcomes at a whole-of-organisation level and through roles in specialised areas including corporate affairs, government relations, chief of staff, sales leadership, marketing, product, and general management.
Known for identifying and shaping new markets and new government policy initiatives, Nicole finds areas of transformational growth and operationalises the implementation for organisations from an industry and capability lens. Her ability to think outside-the-box and solve problems has been pivotal to her success.
Nicole values translating government policy into strategy, and leading complex high-impact projects. She finds it incredibly rewarding to successfully drive complex national programs from concept to outcome over multiple years, as well as remediate and turn around projects in decline.
Her sound understanding of emerging technology and cybersecurity and its application to government, critical infrastructure, and businesses underpins her future-focused strategic thinking and growth mindset. Nicole’s distinctive coaching and mentoring style is tailored to executives, senior leaders, and teams, and she enjoys coaching young women and people from diverse backgrounds.
More information can be found at www.digitechconsulting.au and www.nicolemcmahon.com