Fifth Dimension expands executive leadership team with annual growth

Lyndall Spooner, Chief Executive Officer, Fifth Dimension Consulting
Lyndall Spooner, Chief Executive Officer, Fifth Dimension Consulting

Fifth Dimension Consulting has announced the expansion of its executive leadership team in response to the organisation’s significant growth over the last financial year.

“We have experienced strong growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. This growth is appreciated as we continue to raise our profile as thought leaders in the industry.”

“We have grown our staff base by 20%, increased revenue by 20% and are now rolling out a new company structure to support and grow our innovation led culture,” Lyndall Spooner said.

Fifth Dimension’s changes in executive leadership team

Lyndall Spooner has worked in research and management consulting for over 25 years, and founded Fifth Dimension. She moves from Managing Director to be the Chief Executive Officer.

She will lead Fifth Dimensions’ innovation arm, and the development of external strategic partnerships that support the business’ mission of being a global thought leader in research.

John Crowley and Alex Vishney, both highly respected industry stalwarts, have been promoted from directors to joint managing director roles in Fifth Dimension Consulting.

Crowley and Vishney have been with Fifth Dimension Consulting for close to five years, and possess over 20 years of experience working in research agencies in both London and Sydney.

David Gemmola, Co-founder of Fifth Dimension remains a Director and Chief Operating Officer with over 25 years of experience in management consulting and technology commercialisation.

“We are very fortunate to have such an experienced executive leadership team to take Fifth Dimension Consulting forward as evidenced during this period of strong financial growth.”

“We will be rolling out an innovative structure for a research agency that will challenge and grow our own thinking to ensure we become the thought leaders we strive to be.”

“I am very proud of what we have achieved and continue to achieve,” Spooner added.

“Fifth Dimension Consulting is a highly respected and industry leading strategic research and consulting agency that has amassed a distinguished portfolio of well-known clients”

“These include Coles, Westpac, HCF, Telstra, Foxtel, Colgate and the Commonwealth Bank.”

“We are extremely grateful to our wonderful clients for entrusting us with the assignments to help them push their market boundaries and implement relevant innovative thinking.”

Fifth Dimension Consulting expands team

In addition to the new executive team Fifth Dimension has hired 10 employees in the last financial year as a response to winning significant new business contracts.

“After 15 years of leading Fifth Dimension I can honestly say I have never been more excited for what our company of highly intelligent and curious people will achieve.”

“A creative and innovative culture can take you anywhere,” commented Lyndall Spooner.

“Additionally, as a research scientist I enthusiastically enjoy not having an end goal of where we want to be, but to focus on the journey and to be open to innovative possibilities.”

Fifth Dimension has been recognised for its work, being honoured as a 2021 Confirmit ACE Award in the Innovation category, a 2020 Confirmit AIR Insight and Research Award Winner.

They were also included in the highly respected 2020 GreenBook Research Industry Trends (GRIT) Top 25 Strategic Consultancies, as one of the world’s most innovative companies.

Their four pillars of expertise have evolved new capabilities to embrace uncertainty and drive the innovation of market leading approaches: Strategy, Experience, Research and Technology.