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Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Employed as a member of the Transformation & Strategy team, the role provided specialist expertise and support in the leadership and management of enterprise change for the Partnership Banking and People business units.Key responsibilities• Led change strategy & planning with retail bank leadership team and key other pan-bank stakeholders to develop overarching change approach • Ensured execution of the Enterprise Change vision and consistent application of the BNZ change framework, principles, and practices• Ensured effective integrated change execution & outcome delivery through effective engagement of key stakeholders, key to success• Collaborated with senior leaders, internal communication, marketing, capability teams and other business unit leaders to shape and deliver effective change storytelling across the business unit and broader enterprise

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Founder and lead consultant for an organisational development boutique agency offering a full range of bespoke services.Key responsibilities:• Designed and delivered large scale organisation development and change solutions• Offered thinking partnerships to executive leadership teams• Developed unique leadership development programmes to develop ethical leaders• Conducted statistical research• Sourced and managed specialist solution teams to deliver unique solutions to business

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Drawing on my expertise as Organisational Psychologist, Change specialist and Organisational Development Lead, my role as Associate of the Institute was to create greater capacity for change and newness in client organisations. Key contributions• Worked with deep process as overarching methodology to activate catalytic transformation in leaders and their teams• Focused on re-prioritizing that which needed to be reconfigured, changed and ultimately transformed within the fabric of forward-leaning organisations• Process preparation & workshop design aspects• Deep-process facilitation• Case-study preparation and writing

Cape Town Area, South Africa

As people leader in Organisation Effectiveness, People (Human Resources) group, this role delivered organisational development strategies (EVP), change management practise and employee engagement across the national footprint of this retail giant. Key responsibilities• Led a team of seven direct reports that prided themselves in being pro-active and passionate about making a difference • Held the key accountability of delivering the national change-and organisational development strategies• Partnered and built strong relationships with executive leaders and their leadership teams, HR business partners, subject matter experts and centers of excellence leaders, product groups, supply chain- and financial services businesses• Built the employee value proposition through a culture of values-based leadership and team effectiveness• Managed and iterated the annual employee engagement survey• Established an enterprise change practice • Developed and established a distinct employer brand, supporting the employee experienceAchievements• Lead the design and implementation of a change practice supported by a unique change framework and methodology successfully supporting the further development of a performance based, agile culture • Delivered a Values-Based Leadership programme which was internationally recognised as best practice and earned the company a reputation as an exceptional place to work. • Raised leadership capability to consistently grow high employee performance, satisfaction levels and team effectiveness success, resulting in world-class culture and leadership scores on the annual employee engagement survey• Uplifted and improved the employee engagement survey to a strongly valid, reliable national and pan-African survey that became established as a core leadership practice and tool

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Change Lead for the Retail Operations group consisting of over 16,000 employees, 4 divisions, and 400 stores. Key responsibilities• Developed and delivered enterprise change strategies and plans• Change partner to People Leaders, Executive Managers and other key, cross-functional stakeholders in planning, prioritisation and bundling change and reducing change resistance and fatigue• Workstream lead role responsible for the change delivery of an Employee Value Proposition strategy & programme of work for corporate stores• Fulfilling the role of trusted organisational change management practitioner across the retail businessKey Achievements• Established and championed a consistent application of ADKAR-based change management practices• Established a change integration forum which created a predictive and trusted change landscape thus enabling timeous planning, bundling and prioritisation of change program implementation• Delivered a staff re-engagement programme, following a protracted month-long strike, based on people-centered design, to debrief and reintegrate a traumatised workforce, which lead to rebuilding engagement• Successfully implemented an engagement methodology for organisational innovation & operational excellence to over 15 000 employees in more than 300 stores country-wide

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Change Manager for multiple projects across various business areas in both product and retail environments. • Specialized in large organisational change spanning various areas of the business with multiple and high people, process and system impacts including culture change.• Delivered change strategies, change plans, stakeholder analysis, organisational impact assessments, training plans, communication, and engagement plans • Developed a strength in working with people in a collaborative and systemic way leading to successful and sustained change.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Responsible for process re-engineering and change management across the project management lifecycle i.e. from analysis/ diagnoses phase through to post implementation• specific focus on the international textiles business processes• reviewed, improved and implemented the end-to-end International Textiles Imports process

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Delivered full spectrum of industrial-organisational psychology consulting services: • Remuneration consulting• Competency based job design, job analysis and person specification definition• Psychometric evaluations & assessments• Competency based interviews • Detailed individual psychometric report writing • Career evaluation and guidance• Shortlisting• Assessment center design and execution• Training design and presentation

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Management Development Training

Master Of Arts (M.A.) Human Resource Management

Diploma

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Hons

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba) Communication