Berst Consulting
Turn AI ambition into practical product, leadership, and delivery outcomes.
Berst Consulting helps organisations modernise product development, leadership, delivery, and operating models for the AI era.
AI-enabled opportunity discovery
AI is making it cheaper than ever to build. The real challenge is deciding what is worth building.
Bridging strategy into execution
We help teams close the gap between bold strategy and reliable delivery.
Customer-centric transformation
We help leaders make business priorities more customer-centric, differentiated, and measurable.
Product operating model design
We help organisations redesign product, leadership, and delivery for the AI era.
Data-driven decision making
We help organisations move from gut-feel to evidence-informed decisions.
Trusted by leading organisations
20+
Years experience
50+
Organisations served
5
Industries
3
Consultants
Services
Where we can help
From opportunity discovery to operating model transformation — we meet your organisation where it is.
Opportunity Discovery & Problem Diagnosis
Identify the highest-value problems to solve before committing to solutions.
AI Readiness & Transformation
Assess your organisation's readiness and design a practical AI adoption roadmap.
Outcome-Based Advisory Engagements
Embedded advisory that bridges strategy and execution over weeks or months.
Leadership & Team Assessments
Evaluate team structures, leadership effectiveness, and operating models.
Delivery Foundations Uplift
Establish the delivery rhythms, metrics, and practices that create reliable output.
Executive Coaching & Delivery Advisory
One-on-one coaching for product and technology leaders navigating complex change.
Product Operating Model Adoption
Redesign how product, technology, and business collaborate to deliver outcomes.
Product & Agile Governance Design
Design governance frameworks that enable speed without sacrificing oversight.
Workshops
Practical learning, real outcomes
Hands-on workshops that build the thinking, tools, and habits your team needs.
Product Strategy & Direction
Align leadership on product vision, AI opportunities, and strategic roadmaps.
Continuous Discovery
Build the habits, tools, and skills for ongoing customer and market discovery.
Leading Empowered Teams
Equip leaders to build autonomous, high-performing product teams.
Delivery Foundations
Establish the fundamentals of effective, predictable delivery.
Methodology
Thinking that drives results
Our approach draws on proven disciplines, adapted for the challenges and opportunities of the AI era.
How We Understand Customers
- Human-Centred Design
- Jobs to Be Done
- Product Management
How We Improve Organisations
- Agile
- Lean
- Systems Thinking
- Organisation Design
How We Lead in Complexity
- Intent-Based Leadership
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- AI-Native Product Thinking
Our Team
Experienced practitioners, not theorists
We bring decades of hands-on experience leading product, technology, and transformation across large organisations and high-growth companies.
Peter Lee
Founder & Principal Consultant
20+ years leading product, technology, and delivery transformation across finance, construction, and enterprise SaaS. Former CTO, CIO, CPO, and Head of Agility.
James Zhang
Strategy & Growth Consultant
Leadership coach and strategy advisor helping organisations build intentional capability and sustainable growth in complex environments.
Terry Haayema
Enterprise Transformation & Delivery Consultant
30+ years in agile transformation and enterprise delivery. International speaker, mentor, and President of the Sydney Agility Network.
Insights
Ideas worth reading
How to move from project to product
The shift from project-based delivery to product-led operating models requires more than renaming teams. It demands new structures, funding models, and leadership behaviours.
1 April 2025 · 2 min read
StrategyAI is making it cheaper to build — so why are teams still building the wrong things?
The cost of building software is collapsing. But the organisations winning with AI are not the ones building the most — they are the ones who figured out what is worth building.
15 March 2025 · 3 min read
StrategyWhy customer-centric strategy matters more than ever
In an era where AI lowers the cost of building, the organisations that win are those that deeply understand their customers — and relentlessly focus on the right problems to solve.
1 March 2025 · 3 min read
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