ROADMENDER is a strategic advisory practice founded by Jelenko Dragisic in 2012.

We help organisations navigate complexity, strengthen resilience, and create the conditions for meaningful and sustainable change. Working across government, industry, research, and the not-for-profit sector, ROADMENDER brings together practical leadership experience with contemporary thinking in collaboration, resilience, strategy, and complex systems.

At its core, ROADMENDER is founded on a simple belief: lasting progress rarely occurs in isolation. The challenges facing organisations and communities today are increasingly interconnected, requiring approaches that recognise relationships, adapt to change, and work across traditional boundaries.

Our work focuses on helping leaders understand the systems they operate within, identify the conditions that enable success, and develop strategies that can respond to uncertainty while maintaining purpose and direction. Whether supporting organisational transformation, partnership development, resilience planning, or regional initiatives, we seek to bridge strategic thinking with practical action.

ROADMENDER’s approach has been shaped by more than two decades of leadership and advisory experience across diverse sectors, including disaster resilience, environmental management, community development, higher education, and organisational strategy.

Meet the Founder

Jelenko Dragisic is a strategist, author, advisor, and collaboration practitioner with more than twenty years of experience working across government, not-for-profit, academic, and private sectors.

Throughout his career, Jelenko has led major organisations, developed large-scale partnerships, managed complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, and advised leaders on strategy, resilience, and organisational development. His experience ranges from community-based projects to multi-million-dollar state and national programs.

Jelenko is particularly interested in how organisations and communities adapt in the face of complexity and change. His work explores the relationship between collaboration, resilience, innovation, and the conditions that enable systems to thrive.

He is the author of The Collaboration Instinct and regularly writes and presents on complexity, resilience, leadership, and strategic collaboration. Through ROADMENDER, he continues to work with organisations seeking practical ways to navigate uncertainty while building stronger foundations for the future.