Dr Sara Cullen Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Sara founded the Cullen Group in 2001 with the goal of providing organisations with advice and strategies to help them design, negotiate, and manage important service contracts for their business.Drawing on her extensive experience in the industry, Sara has developed strategies to help relationships go from unworkable to unstoppable.The Cullen Group provides mentoring to help organisations navigate the contract process, making sure both sides of an agreement achieve breakthroughs in knowledge, mindset, and performance.Since inception, she has taken on 191 different projects with a total contract value of $18 billion. Clients include the Government of Australia, Conoco Phillips, and the Dairy Farmers of America.As Director, Sara is involved in all areas of the business. This includes managing the direction of the business and working directly with clients to help them achieve their goals.

Melbourne, Australia

The Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne is Australia’s oldestengineering school, with world-leading teaching and research staff across all engineeringand IT disciplines.Sara has taught hundreds of post-graduate students and consistently receives outstanding SES (student experience survey) scores. She also helped develop the school’s inaugural online Master’s degree and one of 25 online learning MOOCs which recently hit 7000 students.Always happy to further the education of others, Sara has participated in a variety of engagement initiatives, including downtown seminars, corporate education, and book collaborations. Using her decades of experience and leading research, Sara is able to offer a bridge between the academic and industry worlds. She encourages people to be informed, think critically, and to constructively share ideas.

Australia

WorldCC enables both organisations and professionals to achieve world-class standards in their contracting and relationship management processes.The organisation’s membership includes professionals from a number of different industries, with over 50,000 members across 175 countries and 19,782 corporations.In 2017, Sara was elected to the AU/NZ advisory board to advise on the professionalisation ofcommercial & contract management in the AU/NZ region. In 2018, she was elected the leader of the IACCM's global academic network.As part of this role, she leads Ask-The-Expert webinars, national conference sessions, executive workshops, panel moderations, and group mentoring sessions.Having worked with 170 clients spanning every industry, and having lived and worked in multiple countries, Sara is able to connect to every member no matter where they are in their career or what their challenges might be.

Australia, Nz, Se Asia

Sara has been teaching professionals for nearly two decades in all things contracts andcommercial relationships. She is the Course Director for many programs around the world with a variety of leading education providers and is on Informa’s Contract Management Executive Panel, which created the first Contract Management Professional certification in Australia.Her goal is to help buyers and sellers avoid pitfalls, cost blowouts, and disputes. Mostimportantly, she imparts informed optimism and pragmatic solutions by demonstrating what truly works based on evidence, how to create high-performance, and how to genuinely collaborate between trading partners. She has trained 7500 professionals in 975 organisations and enjoys making a difference in everyone’s capabilities with vast insight, empathy, and enthusiasm.

Australia

Deloitte is a multinational professional services network with a history that dates back all the way to 1845.The company consists of tens of thousands of dedicated professionals throughout the world collaborating to provide audit, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services to select clients.Deloitte has firms located in countries around the globe, utilising local professionals to provide expert advice to both businesses and individuals.The company employs over 286,000 professionals worldwide and has been ranked number one in global market share by several different sources.Sara made National Partner in an era where women partners were highly unusual. During her time with Deloitte, a new national division was created under Sara and she helped the company become a dominant player in the Australian and New Zealand markets.She managed multiple teams across Australia, helping both her clients and the business achieve their goals.

Phd, Contracts

Masters Management, Technology

Bsc, Accounting