Experience

LIW

• Australia
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Design and Research

  • Aug 2012 - Present

  We are a highly successful and rapidly growing global organisational leadership consultancy that partners with corporations, countries and communities to transform and maximise their leadership, performance and create sustainable impact, often in challenging environments. We deliver leadership consulting, coaching and development to every level of the organisation and have a robust and proven LIW Impact System to measure and deliver the results our clients are seeking. We deliver in over 30 countries with 80 consultants, have gained eight global awards for business impact in the last 3 years and provide a high impact and low maintenance assurance to our clients. LIW's pragmatic and holistic approach is focused on developing an Organisational Leadership Architecture (ola) at every level of the organisation. This powerful approach acts as the strategic enabler to catalyse results. Our clients range from multi nationals, emerging countries and national sports teams - all whom see leadership as core to enhancing their sustainable success; from the CEO to frontline.



Leading Experience Consultants Pty Ltd

• Director

  • 2011 - Present

  I work with organisations helping them to clarify the desired future state of their business and people performance. Together we are authentic about how things are now and design interventions to move from current performance to the desired future state. Over time this has taken the form of all sorts of interventions primarily working in three ways: Organisational Coaching I work with all levels of leaders within organisations, specialising in, coaching high potential leaders moving into new or senior positions. Coaching programmes effectively enhance the performance and leadership capabilities of individuals in workplace settings. Facilitation Working with groups and teams to help them do their best thinking, I create a highly focused environment that becomes a catalyst for breakthrough discoveries and innovative thinking. With a good balance of challenge and support and highly effective observation and questions I have helped executive teams develop and define their purpose, make critical decisions, build strategies, design processes to develop company values, and solve a number of organisational issues, whilst holding true to business goals, company culture and agreed behaviours. Leadership Development Programmes I tailor courses specifically to meet the unique needs of an organisation. I also deliver a number of development programmes designed to enhance the leadership capability of participants. These include courses such as: Coaching and Feedback for Leaders, Values Based Interviewing, Performance Conversations and Leadership Development through personal enquiry.



Urbanest Australia

• Australia
• Leasing Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Human Resources and Operations

  • Apr 2008 - Oct 2011

  urbanest develops, owns and operates purpose built student accommodation. Founded in 2008 with an aim to be the leading provider of student accommodation in Australia the business now operates 1,500 beds across three states. As Director of HR and Operations and a company director I established the organisational structure and people systems and created and led the operational business. This included the design of the urbanest brand, sales and marketing strategy and the development and implementation of consistent operating standards delivering a highly customer focussed student living experience.



Unite Students

• United Kingdom
• Real Estate
• 700 & Above Employee

• Human Resources Director

  • Sep 2006 - Mar 2008

  Unite Group Plc is the leading provider of student accommodation in the UK with a portfolio of 45,000 student bedrooms across 136 properties, 1,500 employees and an annual turnover in excess of GBP100 million.As HR Director for the London business I was responsible for the support of the senior leadership team, development and Implementation of people strategies to create a high performance culture and enhance colleague capability to deliver the business agenda. A strong coaching and facilitative based approach helped to create an environment in which employees developed challenging, meaningful and rewarding careers.

• Business Change Manager

  • Sep 2005 - Aug 2006

  Responsible for the recruitment, development and leadership of a Business Change team created to support the implementation of a multi-million pound IT solution for a customer booking and financial management system. Supporting the team in the creation of a clear purpose and strategies in line with critical success criteria and a robust business plan based on operational need. This initiative was implemented in a way that protected and enhanced a values driven, people centred and high performance culture.

• Learning and Development Manager

  • Jul 2001 - Aug 2005

  As the National Learning and Development Manager I was responsible for the design, delivery and management of functional training frameworks and colleague induction programmes and the design and facilitation of a group wide management development framework and training programmes.