Ms Kirsten Mann
Ms Kirsten Mann is a Strategic Product Advisor, board director and technology leader with more than 30 years of experience helping organisations navigate the intersection of product, customer experience, artificial intelligence and governance.
Throughout her career, Ms Mann has built and scaled products across startups, high growth technology companies and global enterprises, including senior product leadership roles at MYOB, Aconex, Oracle and Prospection. She has helped shape products used by millions of customers and has led global teams across product management, design and customer experience.
Today, Ms Mann advises founders, CEOs, executive leadership teams and boards on strategy, AI adoption, product transformation and governance. Her work combines practical experience building AI products with decades of executive and board leadership, helping organisations identify where AI creates genuine value and where disciplined decision-making matters most.
Most recently, Ms Mann built Vizory, an AI capability designed for board directors, working alongside boards to explore how artificial intelligence can strengthen governance and decision making. The experience reinforced her belief that technology alone is never the answer. The greatest value comes when AI is combined with strong governance, sound judgement and practical advisory. Today, that work continues through a broader ecosystem supporting boards with AI enabled governance and strategic advisory.
In addition to her advisory work, Ms Mann serves as a non-executive director and strategic advisor to technology businesses at different stages of growth. Her experience as both an executive and director gives her a unique perspective on the opportunities and challenges organisations face as technology, customer expectations and markets continue to evolve.
Ms Mann is a regular speaker on product leadership, artificial intelligence, governance and innovation. She is passionate about helping leaders make better decisions, build products customers genuinely value and navigate change with confidence.
Ms Mann holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting), a Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems) and a Master of Leadership from Monash University. She is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Whether working with founders, executive teams or boards, Ms Mann brings a practical, commercially focused approach grounded in the belief that strategy only creates value when it is translated into action.