A highly experienced Management Consultant and Facilitator in the areas of strategy systems and performance with a wide range of clients in Australia, the UK and the Middle East. Assignments cover strategic and scenario planning, business modelling, information management, leadership development, management systems and personal mastery.
Particular expertise includes:
- Shifting mindsets that have limited organisational and personal performance. Facilitated workshops that have enabled people to see and accommodate a wider range of possibilities in the way of being – expanding the range of external business scenarios and strategies in business planning; exploring alternative worldviews relating to purpose – personally and of business systems; extending the range of choice in contemplating the way forward.
- Integrated thinking in dealing with complexity. Use of modelling techniques and ideas from the new sciences so that the workings of complex systems can be expressed simply to give insights on the key drivers of outcomes – including those that are counter-intuitive.
- Management systems design and implementation using principles that foster a balance between trust and control in achieving business performance and compliance.
- Organisational dynamics that enable people to see the implications of their behaviours and how these can inspire or conspire to foster intended or unintended consequences
Key Assignments:
- CSIRO – training and workshops with the Minerals, Water and Marine Divisions exploring different business and management models to support commercialisation of CSIRO.
- Water Corporation of Western Australia – introduced systems thinking to information management and strategy planning processes through a series of workshops with the Leadership Team and planning professionals
- Western Mining Corporation – series of assignments in differing business units creating plans to integrate development of information and management systems to support business development.
- Woodside Energy – long term support to the Management Team through
- Facilitating business and strategy planning workshops
- Developing Woodside’s management system to secure compliance and governance
- Defining the people competence framework for performance
- Leading the introduction of major cultural development program
- Performance Leadership
- Shell – implementation of information planning across business sectors in London and The Hague
- IDB (Industrial Development Board of Northern Ireland) – development of business planning processes
- ICI – Management Systems in the Engineering Department of Petrochemicals Division, Teesside
- London Borough of Camden – cross authority review of planning and information processes to determine IT strategy
- Shell – led the introduction of systems thinking into a range of business units in Shell International
- UK Department of the Environment