Leadership & operating perspective.

Daniel brings experience across executive leadership, business ownership, workforce management, software, technology-enabled services, hospitality operations and commercial growth.

He is also Group Managing Director of Kin Hospitality Group, giving him direct operating experience across multi-brand business management, people, systems, service delivery and execution.

Daniel completed the Executive Leadership Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and holds a Bachelor of Business in Human Resource Management from Charles Sturt University.

His advisory perspective is grounded in the realities of ownership and execution: making decisions with imperfect information, managing operational constraints, assessing risk, building teams, developing opportunities and understanding what it takes to move from idea to implementation.

James & Woods is not built around theory alone.

The firm's work is informed by practical commercial experience across businesses where strategy, people, operations, systems, service delivery and capital decisions must connect.

This creates an advisory style that is commercially serious, plain-speaking and focused on what decision-makers need to understand before moving forward.

James & Woods exists to bring structure, judgement and preparation to commercial opportunities before major commitments are made.

The firm is deliberately selective, discreet and focused on work where practical commercial judgement can make a meaningful difference.