Ben Edwards on connecting ideas, people and possibilities

At Uvance Wayfinders, we are a diverse group of talented consultants, leveraging our expertise and experience to solve our clients’ challenges and unlock business value. This series discusses who we are, why we are here, and how we, as individuals and as a business, bring value to both our clients and to society.

Ben Edwards is a connector of ideas, people, and possibilities. As a leader within Wayfinders Oceania, he blends deep expertise in digital transformation with a knack for simplifying the complex. Having worked across diverse industries, Ben brings a pragmatic yet forward-looking approach, helping organisations harness technology to unlock strategic growth. Driven by curiosity and collaboration, he’s passionate about building solutions that don’t just solve today’s challenges but set businesses up to thrive in the future.

Over the past two decades, I’ve worked at the intersection of strategy, technology, and delivery by helping organisations navigate large-scale changes in industries as varied as healthcare, utilities, finance, aged care, emergency services, and education. My career has taken me from consulting roles at Deloitte and Grant Thornton to my current role as Director at Uvance Wayfinders, where I focus on delivering complex transformation, sourcing, and IT programs.

At Uvance Wayfinders, we are a diverse group of talented consultants, leveraging our expertise and experience to solve our clients’ challenges and unlock business value. This series discusses who we are, why we are here, and how we, as individuals and as a business, bring value to both our clients and to society.

Ben Edwards is a connector of ideas, people, and possibilities. As a leader within Wayfinders Oceania, he blends deep expertise in digital transformation with a knack for simplifying the complex. Having worked across diverse industries, Ben brings a pragmatic yet forward-looking approach, helping organisations harness technology to unlock strategic growth. Driven by curiosity and collaboration, he’s passionate about building solutions that don’t just solve today’s challenges but set businesses up to thrive in the future.

I joined Uvance Wayfinders because it offered the right combination of big-picture capability and human-scale consulting. After nearly two decades leading transformation programs, I’ve seen how often strong strategies falter without execution muscle, and how powerful it is when vision is matched with capability.

Wayfinders struck me as a rare team: outcome-driven, pragmatic, and willing to roll up their sleeves to solve complex client problems. What really drew me in was the chance to pair that way of working with Fujitsu’s global technology expertise in AI, cloud and data.

For me, it meant the best of both worlds. I could bring my background in transformation and Business services sourcing and delivery to a platform with the scale to deliver, while still working in the agile, collaborative way. That combination is what makes Wayfinders the right environment to help clients turn ambitious goals into tangible, lasting results.

What makes Wayfinders different is our ability to blend genuine consulting expertise with the scale and innovation power of Fujitsu. Many firms either “do strategy” or “do delivery”, we do both, and we do them well. That means clients don’t just get a plan; they get a partner who sees it through to measurable results.

Our teams use senior staff, and we stay close to the work, so there’s no “bait and switch” between sales and delivery. We’re backed by Fujitsu’s global capability in AI, cloud, and data, giving us serious technical grunt to support transformation. We move at pace, keep things clear, and thrive in complex, multi-stakeholder environments where others might hesitate. While we have the resources of a global company, we maintain the accessibility and agility of a small team. That combination of strategy + delivery, big + small is rare, and it’s what sets us apart.

The value I aim to deliver goes beyond completing a project on time and on budget, it’s about leaving clients stronger and more capable than when we started. That means aligning strategy with delivery so the change lasts, embedding governance that works in the real world, and ensuring benefits are tangible and measurable.

I’ve seen firsthand how complex challenges from restructuring service delivery to modernising technology platforms can either stall or succeed based on the clarity of priorities and team collaboration. My approach is hands-on when it matters, focused on bringing stakeholders together and holding solutions to account.

At UWF, I want to harness Fujitsu’s technical and delivery capabilities to help clients solve their most pressing challenges, while also contributing to broader societal outcomes. Be that through better public services, or more sustainable business models that deliver value into the future.