About Us | Torc Advisory Group

Dan founded Torc Advisory Group and leads its advisory work.

He spent more than twenty years in the Managing Director role in a multi-disciplinary firm — running businesses across industries, leading teams, and figuring out, often the hard way, what actually changes things. Through every season a business goes through, one pattern kept showing up: businesses don’t change unless their leaders do. That’s the conviction Torc is built on.

Today Dan works with owners and leadership teams who want to lead better — to think more clearly, build stronger teams, and grow with intention rather than reaction. He doesn’t deal in theory; he works on what actually shifts a business forward.

Outside the work, Dan is a runner and dad to two sons, and is happiest at the beach or with good friends.

Alexia leads training and development at Torc Advisory Group, with responsibility across program design, workshop delivery support, client engagement, and the post-engagement reporting that turns outcomes into something clients can see and use.

She comes to the role from a career in education — working across adult literacy and numeracy, secondary, primary, and early childhood settings. That breadth shapes how she approaches her work: detail-driven, research-led, and structured around how people actually learn.

Alexia holds a Bachelor of Education (Secondary) and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, History and Literature.

Outside of work, Alexia is a reader and a traveller, happiest at the beach with her family.

My Dad loved his Irish heritage — and the Irish language in particular. The house I grew up in had a plaque on the front featuring an Irish word, Dad loved the lyrics of Irish songs, and he would often quote Irish sayings.

So when I started this business, I wanted to honour this and went looking for an Irish word that carried meaning.

Torc is the name of an ancient Celtic necklace, worn by warriors and leaders as a mark of leadership, strength, and clarity.

It’s a quiet nod to Dad, who was a huge influence in my life. And three values that shape how I do this work.

Our work is built on a simple idea: help people be the very best they can be — whatever that looks like for them.

For some leaders, that means thinking more clearly about strategy. For others, it’s dealing with a team that isn’t pulling together, or stepping back from the day-to-day to lead more deliberately. For others again, it’s planning a succession, a transition, or a growth phase that needs more than a gut feel to navigate.

Whatever the starting point, the first job is usually the same — finding the root cause, not the symptom.

From there, our work runs on a simple framework: where is the business now, where does it want to be, and what’s actually going to get it there. It’s the methodology Dan works from as a Business Advisor, and it works because it’s grounded — honest conversations, honest assessments, no theory dressed up as insight.

Our work itself is practical and tailored. Sometimes it’s a leadership program. Sometimes it’s one-on-one coaching. Sometimes it’s a strategy day with the leadership team, or a longer board-advisory relationship. It isn’t a packaged product or a pre-set deliverable, and it isn’t overused frameworks the business will never use.

The aim is simple: leave people clearer, stronger, and better equipped to lead. And a business that runs better because of it.

Dan’s Chartered Accountant background brings more than thirty years’ experience in business.

He is one of a small group of Mindshop Experts — the top accreditation tier within the global advisory network — and was named the network’s 2021 High Achiever for outstanding advisory work with Queensland businesses.

Dan is also a graduate of the University of Cambridge Professional Service Firm Leader Programme — a senior-level programme that brings together leading business academics with experienced consulting professionals.