Steve Atkinson is a partner of Reos Partners, Melbourne. Steve’s focus is on working with clients to co-design, facilitate and build multi-stakeholder interventions to innovatively tackle complex problems and achieve unprecedented aspirations. His recent assignments include scoping a national scenario building assignment with Adam Kahane for the country of Thailand, designing a national scenario dialogue for Indigenous Australians, initiating a change lab intervention for finding new ways to tackle systemic problems in the child protection sector, and working to create a new global benchmark for innovative environmental and social sustainability practices within the construction industry. He is also working on Aboriginal health system reform in Australia and has recently worked on two scenario projects in South Africa relating to the future of healthcare and the socio-political and economic future of South Africa.
Steve brings to the Reos team twenty years experience as a management consultant having working on key strategic assignments for numerous corporate and government institutions in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong and USA. Steve has worked for two international consulting firms as well as building and leading his own consultancy for fourteen years specialising in organisational strategy, change management, leadership development and work culture transformation.
Steve holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and a Master of Arts (Organisational Psychology) degree from the University of Melbourne. He has also completed the Oxford Scenario Programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. Steve is an Alumni member of both the University of Melbourne and University of Oxford.
Steve is a registered psychologist and is a non-executive Board Member for the Australian Community Support Organisation (ACSO).