575 Consulting & Advisory
Enterprise Strategy · Post-merger Integration · Transformation · Governance & Risk
Capabilities
About
At 575, we work with organisations navigating growth through acquisition, technology change, or capital investment without losing the culture and community trust that got them there. That means working with you, not around you: building on the talent already inside rather than dispersing it, and holding creative tension where it earns its keep. We refine ideas until they're clear, agree the way forward together, then monitor and adapt as we go.
"Do you know where you want to go, but aren't sure how to get there?"
We partner with you to articulate a clear plan and agree what success looks like, then work alongside your team — plan, do, study, adjust — until it's embedded.
"Do you have doubts about a plan, program, or initiative already underway?"
We stress-test what's already in motion — schedules, risks, change readiness and culture — through structured assessment and observation, then translate findings into practical recommendations and support you through remediation.
Engagement Approach
Every engagement follows a double-diamond rhythm. We start broad to understand your context, people and constraints before narrowing to a clear diagnosis. Then we open up again, co-designing options with your team, before converging on a final, agreed outcome. Where a mandate calls for capability beyond a single adviser, we draw on a trusted network of specialist practitioners to bring the right expertise to the table.
Project Experience
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| Strategic integration options assessment | Led the strategic assessment of integration options across industrial, technical, and operational constraints. Following Executive endorsement, established the program governance and resourcing to deliver the Group's strategic objectives. |
| Regional operational integration | Program-managed the reverse integration of a regional business unit's employees (~200) and clients (~3,000) into a new national operating model and digital ecosystem, with direct governance, risk oversight, and Board and Executive reporting throughout. |
| Digital tenancy migration & cybersecurity uplift | Business Sponsor for the migration of a national digital tenancy across cloud environments, including partner procurement and a cybersecurity assessment and remediation program that brought >1,000 mobile devices under a single managed device policy. |
| Health hub design & delivery | Led a $25M integrated community health and education precinct end-to-end, from feasibility through business case to delivery, directing co-design across multiple service specialties and acting as commercial contract manager for delivery partners. |
| Multi-entity consolidation | Partnered with the Board Chair, Company Secretary, and CEO to consolidate and rebrand a group's entities, merging three corporate entities and 11 facilities into a single Group with combined revenue exceeding $1B. |
| Group Balanced Scorecard | Led the development of a group-wide quarterly Balanced Scorecard performance report for Board and Executive, co-designed through consultation with the Group Executive and key stakeholders to track delivery against strategic priorities. |
| Health service readiness | Established the PMO function for a major public health system transition, including facility decommissioning, implementing the project governance, data frameworks, and service workflows to enable a smooth, independent transition. |
| Nursing workforce reform program | Engaged by a state health department to implement statewide nursing workforce reform commitments. Developed the workforce allocation methodology underpinning a $101.6M funding envelope (400 FTE) and helped establish the monitoring and evaluation framework for the broader $220M+ program. |
| Site leadership capability & turnaround | Engaged on-site at a major resources operation to lift management capability and strategic execution within the site leadership team. Partnered with the Underground Mine Manager to develop a Mine Operating System and contributed to a turnaround from a budgeted $6M deficit to a $15M surplus. |
| Hospital revenue & governance reform | Provided funding and revenue advisory services across a state's public hospital network (16 Hospital and Health Services), identifying more than $45M in missed revenue through operational reviews, and supported a departmental transformation and governance reform program via a statewide taskforce. |
Further project experience available upon request.
Testimonials
"Dan has led multiple integrations, each with strong governance and risk discipline—and never lost sight of the change impact on clients and our people. He brings clarity to complex, multi-stakeholder transactions and I'd trust him to lead high-value integration work."
"Dan delivered our $25M Springfield Health Hub under budget while keeping strategy and innovation at the centre of every decision — and was just as valuable a partner in our broader community health strategy and advocacy work."
"Dan ran several strategic and complex programs for us — a hospital divestment, an entity consolidation, and a $25M capital development — often managing competing priorities across multiple stakeholders, while maintaining composure and attention to detail."
"Dan has a rare ability to look past the immediate numbers to where performance improvement, mission, and culture intersect. He leads with openness and enquiry and brings real rigour to complex problems."
Principal Profile
Daniel Axelson, MBA, AAICD
Principal, 575 Consulting & Advisory
0466 692 727 · daniel@fivesevenfive.com.au · linkedin.com/in/dbaxelson
Senior leader with a track record of delivering corporate development, transformation, and integration initiatives for large, mission-driven organisations. Dan has more than a decade of experience in regulated, complex environments spanning health, aged care, and the not-for-profit sector. Having led significant business transactions, post-merger integrations, and Board-level governance and reporting, he brings commercial acumen and strong governance discipline to every mandate.