Create Your Next Growth Engine
We help CEOs accelerate strategic growth, innovation, and commercialisation
Running today’s business is focused on execution of a proven business model. Creating tomorrow’s opportunity is focused on exploration and validation of new ideas.
Most leadership teams excel at managing existing operations. However, managing existing operations, whilst simultaneously trying to explore and validate new ideas, is very challenging and often fails.
Where will our next growth come from?
The difficulty is that growth opportunities are rarely obvious. They emerge from changing customer needs, emerging technologies, new business models, and evolving competitive dynamics. Organisations often recognise these opportunities but struggle to determine which deserve investment, how to reduce risk, and how to convert potential into commercial outcomes.
We work alongside CEOs, leadership teams, boards, and founders to identify, de-risk, and execute new growth opportunities that will define their future.
What We Do
Core Pillars of Growth
Yallingup Ventures provides fractional strategic growth, innovation, and commercialisation advisory services to organisations seeking new sources of growth. Rather than providing advice from the sidelines, we work alongside leadership teams to help create momentum and move opportunities forward.
New Products
Many organisations recognise unmet customer needs but struggle to convert those insights into commercially successful products. We help leadership teams identify opportunities, validate demand, prioritise investments, and develop pathways to market.
New Ventures
Some opportunities are too large or too different to fit comfortably within an existing organisation. In these situations, a new venture may be the most effective mechanism for creating value. We support venture design, business model development, validation, and execution planning.
New Markets & Tech Commercialisation
Research, intellectual property, and emerging technologies only create value when they reach the market. We help organisations navigate the journey from discovery to commercial outcome, reducing risk when entering new geographies, customer segments, or industries.
Strategic Partnerships
Many growth opportunities can be accelerated through carefully designed partnerships. We assist organisations in identifying, structuring, and leveraging strategic relationships capable of creating mutual value.
The Breakthrough-to-Business Framework™
The Breakthrough-to-Business Framework™ provides a structured approach for moving opportunities from concept to commercial outcome. This framework underpins our advisory work and provides a practical structure for decision making.
1Discover - Identify breakthrough opportunities.
Identify opportunities emerging from customers, technologies, research, partnerships and market change.
2Define - Clarify the strategic opportunity.
Clarify the strategic opportunity and determine where value may be created.
3Design - Build the commercialisation pathway.
Develop a pathway capable of transforming opportunity into commercial outcomes.
4De-Risk - Test the critical assumptions.
Validate assumptions, test demand, assess feasibility and reduce uncertainty.
5Deliver - Translate strategy into disciplined execution.
Execute with discipline and convert opportunity into measurable outcomes.
About Ian Brown
Deep Experience. Direct Engagement.
Ian Brown is a Fractional Strategic Growth Adviser to CEOs, Executive Teams & Founders. He helps organisations create their next growth engine by identifying new growth opportunities, commercialising breakthrough technologies, building new ventures and forging strategic partnerships. As Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD, Ian works with founders and executives pursuing globally significant ventures while contributing to one of the world’s leading entrepreneurship ecosystems. With more than 30 years’ experience spanning publicly listed companies, university spin-outs, government innovation programs and corporate turnarounds, Ian combines strategic thinking with practical execution to help organisations create long-term enterprise value.
Let’s Build What Comes Next
If you are a CEO or founder seeking strategic guidance on innovation, venture creation, or commercialisation, we would welcome a conversation.
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Helping leaders translate great ideas into scalable businesses.
Ian Brown, Principal
About Yallingup Ventures
Yallingup Ventures is a strategic advisory and venture development firm focused on innovation, commercialisation, and growth strategy. The firm was founded to support organisations seeking to turn breakthrough ideas into scalable businesses. Many organisations generate promising ideas but struggle to convert them into real commercial opportunities.
Yallingup Ventures helps leadership teams bridge this gap — translating innovation into ventures capable of defining new categories. The firm works with a select number of organisations each year, ensuring deep engagement and meaningful impact.
Our Locations
Yallingup Ventures operates from two inspiring locations in Western Australia:
| Subiaco | Minutes from Perth’s CBD, ideal for energising meetings and workshops. |
| Yallingup | A place to step away, reflect deeply, and refocus. Here, we host immersive executive and startup retreats designed to reset strategy and revitalise momentum. |
Whether in the city or by the sea, our environments are chosen with intention—to unlock clear thinking and bold action.