Steve Wood is business consultant, with a pedigree in leading and facilitating business growth type projects – strategy, marketing and performance. He is the author of eleven books – and counting.

He is a Certified Management Consultant and Member of the Institute of Management Consultants. He holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management (one of Europe’s leading business schools) and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

He has worked overseas and in Australia to plan and deliver business growth projects.

Over the past 35+ years he has identified and captured valuable growth opportunities, win new business, generate increased profits, launch new products, and start new business locally and internationally.

Steve has work with a large number of companies to deliver these types of projects, and more…..

• Helping business leaders to strategically plan and grow their business – Doubling business in less than 5 years; Kick-starting of plateauing or declining sales.
• Financial evaluation of M&A deals.
• Competitor profiling and evaluation to decide in which new businesses to invest.
• Preparation of business cases for new products.
• Preparation of strategic and business plan for use in obtaining growth funds from banks or investors.
• Established a not-for-profit charitable foundation in 2006 to provide an educational scholarship.

Qualifications:

• GAICD, Australian Institute of Company Directors
• CMC, Certified and Registered Management Consultant
• MBA, Cranfield University
• CDipAF, Certified Diploma in Accounting & Finance
• BSc, Mechanical Engineering with German
• Retired – Chartered Engineer, CEng MIMechE

Specialist Expertise:

• Strategy –  Business Strategy and Business Planning
• Marketing –  To create customer value – find, attract, win customers
• Performance –  Optimising people, processes and resources to maximise outputs and profits

Professional Memberships:

• Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants

Author:

• “Leadership For Growth”, 2026, Wood
• “Success Know How – 2nd Edition“. 2025, Wood
• “The Four Aces”, 2025, Wood
• “The Profitable Notebook”, 2024, Wood
• “Practical Tools to Grow Your Business”, 2024, Wood
• “Permission to Dream?  Permission Granted”, 2022, Wood
• “Dr. Zhivago Visits Paris”, 2021, Wood and Ortscheid
• “How to Make More Money Than You Know How to Spend”, 2020, Wood
• “Tell Us Where It Hurts”, 2019, Wood
• “The Money Tree”, 2018, Wood
• “Dominating Your Niche”, 2015, Wood etal. 
• “Success Know How”, 2015, Wood
• (All available via Lulu.com and Amazon.com)