Steve Leigh brings over 20 years of combined experience across recruitment and professional services, having worked with both leading global organisations and high growth start ups. Throughout his career, he has built a strong reputation for services led solution selling in the Australian market and has played a pivotal role in launching and scaling new businesses. His passion for modern infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies is matched by his ability to build trusted, long term relationships with clients and strategic partners.

As the Zaleo Consulting Account Director, Steve acts as a strategic partner to clients and executives, ensuring business objectives are translated into measurable technology outcomes. Operating at the intersection of strategy, delivery, and relationships, he brings clarity to complex challenges and aligns stakeholders around a shared vision for success.

At the core of his role is helping organisations address challenges related to scale, efficiency, risk, and value realisation. Whether modernising platforms, optimising operating models, or enabling data driven decision making, Steve maintains a clear focus on solving business problems through technology but never technology for its own sake.

Steve bridges business objectives with technology outcomes by starting with intent. He invests time in understanding commercial drivers, constraints, and success metrics, then works closely with architects, delivery teams, and partners to shape solutions that are pragmatic, scalable, and outcome focused. This disciplined approach ensures that technology decisions remain anchored to tangible business value.

Helping clients realise ROI requires focus across the entire lifecycle, from robust business cases and prioritisation through to benefits tracking and continuous optimisation. Steve challenges assumptions, measures progress against agreed KPIs, and adjusts course when required to ensure investments deliver meaningful returns.

Clients consistently describe Steve’s leadership and communication style as calm, transparent, and outcome driven. He builds trust with senior stakeholders through consistency, honesty, and informed decision making, while supporting delivery teams by removing obstacles and fostering shared accountability.

By staying closely connected to his clients’ evolving priorities, industry pressures, and performance gaps, Steve proactively identifies new opportunities where technology can unlock further value. To him, strong partnerships are built on trust, shared goals, and long term thinking, working together not just to deliver solutions, but to drive sustained business impact.