Thirty years of leading teams through change.

David Taylor is not your typical consultant.

He joined iiNet (now Vodafone Australia) in 1999, in the early days of the internet, when most businesses didn't have a website. That turned into a 16+ year career, where he rose from programmer to Senior Development Manager, eventually leading teams of 17+ staff across multiple cities, overseeing systems that generated $900 million in revenue and served 750,000 customers.

At Vodafone / iiNet he didn't just manage. He built. He created a DevOps function from scratch when the term barely existed. He established a Revenue Recovery team that clawed back $6 million in a single year. He introduced continuous improvement strategies that cut operational incidents by 50% even as headcount shrank. He led PCI DSS compliance for payment systems processing hundreds of millions of dollars. And through it all, he mentored developers into team leads, building succession plans and loyalty that lasted well beyond his tenure.

But corporate life had a ceiling. In 2016, David founded Mindsheep, a digital marketing and lead generation agency working with Australian businesses across real estate, trades, retail, and professional services. He built a team of developers, marketers, and strategists across the Philippines and Indonesia, and learned firsthand the challenges and opportunities of building remote, cross-cultural teams. That experience later led to Island Teams, an offshore staffing company for digital nomads and expats that he ran from 2023 to 2024: a demographic he understood because he'd become one himself.

In late 2023, he co-founded a digital content marketing agency, grew it rapidly, and exited successfully in just six months. The acquiring company retained David as a leadership consultant for the next 18 months. During that time he mentored two successive CEOs and the wider team, ran leadership training workshops at a company retreat in Thailand, helped build the agency's AI content creation systems, supported recruitment, and managed cross-cultural teams across Europe and the Philippines, building proper organisational foundations in a rapidly scaling business.

Today, David sits at the intersection of everything he's built: deep technical roots, real leadership experience at enterprise scale, a track record of building and selling businesses, and a genuine obsession with AI. He's founder of Mindsheep Labs, co-founder of AgencyMetrica and Stellar Voice Agents, founder of Mindsheep Learn and Mindsheep Marketing, and CTO of GroupFound. Earlier, as co-founder of AI to the World, he was an early adopter, putting AI chatbots and practical tools in front of businesses before most had started. He spends his days helping businesses of all sizes figure out how AI fits into their world, not someday, but now.

His specialty is the part most leaders find hardest: bringing teams through the AI transition without losing them along the way. AI doesn't just change what gets done; it changes who feels safe doing it. Getting that right is the difference between an AI transformation that compounds and one that quietly stalls.