Dean is currently CEO of Select Carbon, working with landholders to combine grazing enterprises with carbon farming. His current and past work has been in production systems that are suited to our environment, and in particular, how we can manage grazing systems to optimise business performance, animal productivity and land management. Dean co-led the national Enrich project that explored the multiple benefits of Australian native shrubs in grazing systems, co-developed self-herding, which is a set of practices based on animal behaviour and nutrition. Previously, Dean established Revell Science as an independent consultancy to link science to practice. He also spent a decade as a research scientist with the CSIRO, and worked in universities in Western Australia, South Australia and New Zealand for over a decade.