“Josh Klein is the quintessential hacker - a cross-disciplinary, pattern recognising polymath who takes his greatest joy from combining the unexpected and seeing the result work in new and better ways.”

Klein is a passionate hacker of all things. He examines systems, he takes them apart, and he puts different pieces together to produce something new and more effective. The list of things he hacks includes social systems, computer networks, institutions, consumer hardware, animal behaviour, and many more. Klein knows that the greatest innovations come from rethinking ordinary situations, or hacking; a do-it yourself movement with roots inside the engineering community.

Klein has relevant insight other consultants cannot match, with 15 years’ experience consulting to governments, corporations, and startups. His background has seen him spend serious time both in the trenches coding and cracking, and in the boardroom managing development and deployments. His emphasis on a hacker’s approach provides critical value in:
• Analytical systems thinking, procedures and processes to hold the executive team accountable,
• Solid technical knowledge to make on-the-fly assessments and reality checks,
• A realistic and insightful eye for when and how to utilise emerging technologies and implement new models.

Much of his consulting work is aimed at bringing increasing innovation to the organisation, be it a 5-person startup (as with incubators like La Laboratoire or IdeaLab, or through direct consultation as to Vinyl.is or and ScenarioDNA), a Fortune 500 (such as Pfizer, IBM, or AT&T), or a major geopolitical entity (such as the State Department, NSA, or the World Economic forum).

Klein frequently provides emerging technology research for organisations large and small, turning  this insight into market-leading strategy for both product and business model evolution. His deep technology background enables him to quickly cut through hype to find where an organisation can  get maximum leverage, saving time and providing first-mover advantage.