Our Founder

Howard Thomas

Principal

Howard has a unique ability to make the complex clear for his clients and audiences.

He combines an in-depth technical background with a wide-ranging business experience but is probably best known for his engaging style of presentation, leading to an increasing demand for his speaking engagements and courses.

He is formally technically accredited as a Chartered Professional Chemical Engineer and Fellow of Engineers Australia.

He started, developed, bought into and sold businesses, but never ran the businesses. His interest has always been in performance improvement.

He founded TAM with the future in mind. Employing knowledge workers 100% of the time is expensive and inadvertently leads to the very complexity we need to avoid. Full time employment will be increasingly rare as the knowledge economy continues to develop.

If we reward knowledge workers in proportion to the value they add, they can find a work life balance that does not depend on 100% employment whilst complimenting the core business of their clients with access to wider expertise.

Finally, Howard believes that advantaged people have a duty to help those less advantaged than themselves, but it must be in a sustainable way, and he founded Carnegie Spirit in 2009 to promote these ideals.