“The Wild Duck Collective” is a policy concept, started by Greg Eaton, as a means of linking a few like-minded professional colleagues who have as diverse an ethnic, cultural and experience background as you could possibly wish.

These individuals, selected on a project by project basis, are known to deliver superior client experiences in business renewal, product development, marketing and innovation, management and management mentoring, and across many industries.

The collective is named, tongue in cheek, in keeping with the popular idea (espoused by the likes of Apple and IBM) that wild ducks (as opposed to tame ducks) are those that think out of the box, get things done and happily move on to the next challenge.

George Bernard Shaw once wrote that “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.”

IBM boss T.J. Watson Jr. said in the sixties that “We are convinced that any business needs its wild ducks. And in IBM, we try not to tame them.”

The Collective’s evolving membership, curated by Greg, are almost always seasoned and highly experienced business and technology leaders, who will naturally and necessarily respect and trust each other.

Their experience, as said before, extends from technology development, invention, IP protection, R&D, design, manufacture, QA, marketing, sales and customer engagement to C-level management.

With mostly more than 25 years’ of serious hands-on experience each, the project selected individuals will all have a well demonstrated management capability and international product leadership across a wide range of sectors including medical devices, health, pharmaceuticals, software, instrumentation, electronics, mechanics, manufacturing, resources, mining, farming, utilities, chemistry, food, waste disposal and clothing.

Each curated project group, in keeping with the Wild Duck principles, will often include young and very talented individuals, whose inclusion benefits and expedites successful project conclusion.

Selected and curated members of each project group are all problem solvers – and they will not afraid to work at the “coal face”, to get things done.

Pivoting is also in a Wild Duck’s repertoire, with many successful business projects involving new directions and new markets.

Wild Ducks work intimately with organizations at all levels, as required, to achieve our client's goals, and the best part - no one will tame these particular wild ducks – ever.