About Toward Labs
Toward Labs is an independent advisory and innovation practice focused on critical infrastructure, cities and urban systems.
Our work spans strategic advisory and assurance, business growth and innovation, executive leadership, and scaling digital and AI-enabled solutions.
Founded on extensive international executive and advisory experience, Toward Labs combines strategic insight, commercial judgement and practical expertise. We work flexibly with clients and collaborators, drawing on a trusted network of experienced professionals where complementary capabilities and perspectives are valuable.
Independent by design and collaborative by nature, Toward Labs provides a platform for advisory work, commercial partnerships and the exploration of new ideas and ventures.
Jamye Harrison
Principal
Jamye Harrison is a senior executive and strategic adviser with extensive experience leading businesses and working with clients across Australia, Asia, Europe and the Americas. His career spans government, critical infrastructure, technology and professional services, combining global business leadership with strategic advisory, commercial development and organisational transformation.
Most recently, Jamye led KBR's Consulting business across Asia Pacific and was Executive Director of Frazer-Nash Australia (a KBR subsidiary). Previously, he was Global Managing Director – Digital Advisory at Arcadis, leading practice areas spanning digital transformation, data analytics and AI-enabled solution delivery. Earlier, as a Deloitte Partner, he advised critical infrastructure and government clients and was National Lead Partner – Transport. His career also includes senior public sector leadership at RailCorp, where he served as General Manager – Technology Strategy & Architecture.
His sector experience spans transport, defence, energy, water, nuclear and telecommunications, complemented by broader work in cities, precincts and urban transformation. Across these domains, he has worked at the intersection of infrastructure, public policy, technology and the built environment, helping shape the strategies, investments and systems that support thriving cities and communities.
His experience includes independent assurance of major infrastructure and digital investments, strategic advice, organisational transformation and leading digital, data and AI initiatives. He brings a broad perspective informed by executive accountability, commercial experience and work across different sectors, professional disciplines and international markets.
Working together
Independent by design. Collaborative by nature.
Toward Labs is built around Jamye's experience and expertise, while recognising that complex challenges frequently benefit from complementary perspectives and specialist capabilities.
Through an extensive professional network developed across Australia and internationally — spanning government, infrastructure, technology, academia and professional services — Toward Labs can bring together experienced advisers and collaborators where the needs of an engagement warrant a broader team.
This provides the flexibility to work on focused individual assignments or more complex multidisciplinary engagements, while maintaining a personal, senior-level approach and direct accountability.
A little history. A sense of direction.
There's a reason lighthouses and maps feature in the Toward Labs identity.
Long before GPS and digital navigation, lighthouses helped people find their way, avoid danger and navigate unfamiliar waters. They remain an enduring example of critical infrastructure — combining practical purpose with remarkable ingenuity and engineering.
John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse, completed in 1759, helped pioneer new approaches to construction at sea. Robert Stevenson built on this tradition with Scotland's celebrated Bell Rock Lighthouse in 1811, followed a year later by Toward Point Lighthouse.
But the Stevenson story is more than one of engineering. It was a remarkable family endeavour, bringing together design, invention, construction, illustration and enterprise across generations. Robert and his wife Jean raised a family whose lives became closely intertwined with the lighthouse business. Their daughter Jane contributed to the illustration and documentation of Robert's work and played an important role in organising and preserving the firm's engineering knowledge. Three of their sons — Alan, David and Thomas — subsequently joined and extended the family enterprise, establishing an extraordinary legacy of engineering innovation in Scotland and internationally.
For Toward Labs, the connection is part historical curiosity, part metaphor. Maps help us see the bigger picture. Lighthouses help us find our bearings. And the Stevenson family story reminds us of what can be achieved when ingenuity, different disciplines and practical experience come together — sometimes in extraordinarily difficult conditions.
