About Martin Blake
Martin Blake has over 30 years' professional services advisory leadership experience in complex local and global operating environments. He also has a lifetime of experience as a sailor, during which he has learned myriad life lessons about leadership and teamwork, strategy and planning, business consulting, passion and adventure. With the wind in his sails and the ocean in his blood, iHelm sees Martin bring these together to connect beautiful minds to shape the future of Australia so that we can create a better world for the next generation. Martin believes in Thinking Big, Starting Small and Scaling Fast.
About iHelm
Innovate | Educate | Mentor
There are moments in life when you look around you, see your team in-sync, collaborating, driving towards a common goal; when the enterprise, the machine is humming, when the rigging is taut and the wind is in the sails; when the knowledge, the data, the plan come together beautifully.
It takes hard work, passion and dedication. But it’s worth it because these are the moments when big things happen. When goals are achieved. When a vision becomes reality.
Martin Blake, founder of iHelm, has been fortunate enough to experience many such moments. In his 30+ years’ professional services advisory experience in complex local, regional and global operating environments, Martin has attracted, selected, developed and led high-calibre leadership teams that deliver exceptional business transformation outcomes. He has built a trusted network of talented and influential leaders in business and public office. And during a lifetime of sailing – sometimes in the most hostile conditions imaginable – Martin has learned life lessons about leadership and teamwork, strategy and planning, passion and adventure. He considers himself lucky to bring the insights he has gained to his leadership of iHelm.
Drawing on Martin’s varied professional and life experiences, iHelm brings together talented individuals within his trusted network to connect people, develop impactful strategies and provide support to not-for-profit enterprises.
iHelm works with passion and dedication to give back to the community and create a better Australia for the next generation. The organisation prizes stepping away from instinct and spending time on the bridge looking out at the horizon to spot emerging trends, new attitudes and new latitudes. It values high-quality connections for their inspiration, vitality and energy.
iHelm believes in playing to strengths and working with partners who are strong where it is less so. iHelm thinks of the world not as a change curve but as a possibility curve – where incredible things happen when we are open to new possibilities.
At the heart of iHelm are the following core values:
Passion and dedication – we believe it is important to give back to the community
Future focused – spending time on the bridge looking out at the next horizon to spot emerging trends
High-quality connections – we believe in connecting HQCs which create vitality, energy and mutual value.
We believe that value can be created, and have greater impact, when outside knowledge, intellectual property and research are integrated into its innovations and propositions. iHelm brings together beautiful minds with bold ambition to shape the future of Australia so that we can create a better world for the next generation.
At iHelm we believe that with the right minds, passion and dedication, no challenge is too great, no opportunity too remote.
iHelm. Shaping the Future of Australia.
