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// High Impact Group
We work with boards, executive teams and advisory firms on the decisions AI is forcing right now. Not a generated document and a handshake — a facilitated engagement, deliverables reviewed and signed off by a named person, and someone still in the room when the plan meets the organisation.
You formed your view on AI eighteen months ago. That view is already outdated. Roles are broader, expectations are higher and the gap between the leaders who adapt and the ones who wait now shows up in the numbers.
High Impact Group
// What We Do
Organisations that need to work out what AI means for them, and advisory firms that want an AI strategy line without building one. Every engagement is scoped and priced individually, and starts with a conversation rather than a proposal.
// For Organisations
You already suspect which parts of your business AI reaches first. The work is establishing that on evidence, getting the leadership team to agree on it, and turning it into something the organisation can execute.
The flagship engagement. A full AI strategy your board can sign off, built on researched evidence and a facilitated workshop with your leadership team.
Our bespoke consulting wrap. Chris works alongside your team from start to finish, typically over two to three weeks.
Public sector work, built for Australian conditions rather than translated from a commercial framework.
// For Advisory Firms
Advisory firms, independent consultants and delivery firms who want to put AI strategy in front of their own clients, under their own brand, without building the capability from nothing.
An internal playbook for your own team: what you sell, to whom, who delivers it and what it costs you to run as a business line.
We set the firm up, configure your branding and run the delivery-standards session with your delivery leads.
You sell the strategy engagement to your client. We build it behind your brand and never appear to the end client.
A defined term, a success measure and a conversion agreed at the start. Nothing payable during the pilot.
// How We Deliver
High Impact Group operates Mireto, an AI disruption intelligence platform. It is a separate product, with its own site and its own terms, and it does the research, the scoring and the drafting. What you engage High Impact Group for is the work around it.
We charge for being in the room, for judgement, and for the accountability of a name on the sign-off.
Visit Mireto// Who We Work With
A typical engagement requires:
We don’t take on engagements where the client isn’t ready to move.
// Founder
Chris McLaren has been on both sides of the decision for twenty five years. Most people advising boards on AI have never built it, and most people building it have never run the organisation that has to live with the result.
He spent fifteen years as a Partner at KPMG across Australia and the United States, leading the transformation of business units measured in billions. As Chief Customer and Digital Officer for the Queensland Government he ran a $675 million, 1,850-person group accountable for digital, customer, cyber and critical infrastructure for the state. Under that tenure Queensland’s digital readiness moved from ninth to fourth, a $200 million Digital Economy Strategy was launched and his team built Australia’s first public sector AI platform.
He has been interim CEO of a US technology company, chaired the North American Advisory Board of UTS and teaches executives at Duke Corporate Education. He studied digital transformation at MIT, holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours and the AICD Company Directors Course, has published two books, and was recognised as a Public Sector Innovation Leader in 2024.
That record is the standard the practice runs to. Every engagement starts from the conviction that career produced: AI restructures organisations, and the constraint shows up long before the technology does.
The bottleneck is leadership judgement, not technology.
Every engagement is scoped individually and starts the same way: a direct conversation about what you’re facing. No pitch deck, no sales process.