Andrew Olivier
Exploration. Energy. Magic.
Originally trained as a Prehistory Archaeologist, Andrew is fascinated by Time, Evolution and our Human Journey.
Andrew believes Néos Delta is also focused on time; our changing times.
Career Highlights
Managing Partner and Founder ‘The Working Journey’ which is a bespoke international consulting company that uses time, complexity and ambiguity as central organising principles. He works with High Potentials leaders globally and has performed capability reviews and career predictions/projections with well known Public and Private Leaders. He is an entrpreneur and a trustee and elder for eco-villages in South Africa and Australia and is the author of several books. Based in South Africa and Australia.
Decorated Officer in the Marine Corps and Flag Lieutenant to Chief of Navy.
The value of service: discipline and teamwork.
CEO and Founder Third Foundation Systems (software company).
Innovation and consumer interfaces.
CEO Brunel Institute of Organisation Studies Australia and New Zealand
Focused on the work of Elliot Jacques and others.
How walking the Camino birthed a new kind or organisation
Sitting alone in the vast, cold, drafty Franciscan cathedral, having just finished walking the 800 kilometres of rugged country of the Camino de Santiago, Andrew opened a sliding door.
Spain. June 2024. I had just walked the Camino and was sitting alone as a chill wind howled through the soaring, empty, sombre space of St James Cathedral in Santiago. Although, I find religious spaces lack spiritual energy and are dark relics of a distant, unpleasant past, outside the buzz of the Camino De Santiago continued, the joy, tears, laughter of the three thousand pilgrims who arrive daily.
I sat there for over an hour, bum on that stony bench and thought about all the roads that had led me to this cold, dark place. A strong spiritual awareness had pervaded my entire life journey: white magic, dark magic, manifestation and revelations, all have been present, but no, organised religion was not for me thank you. I decided to meditate.
While in that land of meditation limbo, I had a profound mystic experience. It began with the Franciscan Cross, which represented the custodians of Christian sites in the Holy Land. It glowed golden yet dripping red. A single word came to me. Discipline. Followed by other jumbled words which became clearer as I later sketched out my vision.
But the thing that was most clear was that my life was about to change.
Since stepping out of the MD role and becoming divorced, I had lurched from one thing to another. Starting this, starting that, wanting to do this, oh no, rather that. I had become undecided, vacillating, unable to commit, unable to follow through. Now here, in the most unexpected place came the answer. You know what to do. You have known for twenty-three years. Act. Be disciplined.
I wrote to a group of special people I had come to know through my Working Journey. I asked a simple question, would you like to join me in a circle committed to making a difference? A birthing circle for transformation, a midwife to the new. And so Néos Delta came to be.
