Strategy & Planning · Melbourne, Australia

Rohit Karki

I help complex organisations turn strategy into plans that actually get delivered.

A Melbourne-based strategy and planning professional working across health system transformation, financial sustainability, and the decision frameworks that connect leadership intent to outcomes on the ground.

Profile

Where strategy meets execution

Over the past decade, Rohit Karki has helped large, complex organisations close the gap between ambitious strategy and real delivery — building the frameworks, prioritisation tools and planning processes that turn intent into follow-through.

His work spans FMCG and large health organisations, pairing the commercial rigour of strategy and finance with a genuine understanding of how large, complex organisations plan, fund and prioritise. That combination gives him an unusual vantage point on the thing that matters most — turning intent into delivery.

Based in Melbourne, he writes occasionally about strategy, prioritisation, and how organisations make better decisions under constraint.

Approach

How I think about the work

Prioritisation

Strategy is mostly saying no, well

Every organisation has more good ideas than capacity. A transparent, weighted way to rank them makes the trade-offs visible and defensible — so a decision can be disagreed with, but not mistrusted.

Ownership

A priority with no owner is just a sentence

Plans get delivered when every priority has a named person, a measure, and a regular rhythm of review. The discipline isn't in the framework — it's in the cadence.

Clarity

Plain English is not a nice-to-have

If a frontline manager can't read a priority and know what it means for their team next quarter, the plan hasn't reached the place where work actually happens.

Constraint

The best planning question is what to stop

Constraint is what forces the honest conversation about what not to do — and that conversation is where strategy actually gets made.

Writing

Notes on strategy