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Australia

Aussafety Group is one of Australia's longest established providers of workplace safety services, occupational hygiene and employee health management to industry and government. My role is to expand our service offering and build on key client relationships, strengthen governance and strategic focus, and ensure major projects are managed and closed out successfully.

Australia

Supporting professional and 'surplus for purpose' organisations, and private businesses, identify and implement change and growth initiatives.

Australia

Gold Coast, Australia

Australia's leading primary care based provider of diagnosis, treatment and management options for people with sleep disordered breathing, sleep apnoea and snoring

Brisbane, Australia

Open Minds is a leading mental health and disability employment provider. John was invited by the Open Minds Board to bring increased commercial acumen to a not-for-profit organisation facing enormous challenges with the introduction of the NDIS. John has managed and led an organisational transformation at Open Minds, using his purpose driven coaching style and measured intervention to coach and revitalise various business teams, including Marketing, Business Development, ICT, and Administrative Services. With his humble approach and his willingness to ask the tough questions, John set out to play his part in developing a new customer focussed culture and a sustainable future for Open Minds as part of the Executive Leadership Team. John has demonstrated at Open Minds that sector collaboration and competition are possible in the new NDIS world, overseeing the preparation of many tenders for new business that contributed to strong revenue growth at Open Minds. His customer service mindset and focus, coupled with setting clear performance and behavioural expectations in the team, and making service delivery results measurable and visible has underpinned the Open Minds team's new understanding of the need to earn the right to customer loyalty.

Brisbane, Australia

John was engaged to conduct a strategic review of the business operations at Aussafety - structure, culture, business processes, team composition, finances etc with the objective of planning the next step up for this long established SME and leader in the safety and occupational health area nationally. The business' particular focus is on occupational hygiene and industrial audiometry. Aussafety offers custom moulded hearing protection for workers in noisy environments that offers attenuation that can be validated at the tympanic membrane - a feature offered by no other solution globally. John conducted an in depth diagnostic review of Aussafety's operations, managing resultant change initiatives right across the business and coaching the business owners to develop a fresh Purpose and Value set to underpin greater engagement amongst professional and other staff. John also established a contact centre operation and optimised the business CRM system with reluctant sales increases from many inactive clients, getting involved first hand in coaching sales staff and training them in new processes to strengthen and optimise the sales pipeline.

Sydney, Australia

This retail /allied health business had begun primarily as a defensive /vertical acquisition strategy to protect a supply channel by Swiss manufacturer parent, Sonova AG. John was recruited in 2007 after a handful of acquisitions of private audiology practices had been completed. These businesses were operating as a loose coalition with little united direction and poor results. Johns remit was to develop a new brand in the space in Australia, to bring together a team of aligned professionals, and to grow critical mass and bottom line as stand alone business - in addition to securing supply of Phonak and Unitron Hearing Aids for Sonova.By the time John was finished six and a half years later the Connect Hearing brand had been born and the business had become a true leader in the hearing care / hearing aid retail space in Australia operating from 115 POS. John achieved this through inspiring and creating a really positive performance culture among the team of 200 clinicians and support staff. John used his coaching skills and those of a hand picked and world class leadership team to engage a team of fabulous people, driven to improve the lives of people suffering the insidious affliction of a hearing loss. Leading by personal example and exhibiting his characteristic positive energy, John personally led the small team who developed the Connect Hearing brand, into which 15 further acquisitions were also integrated. The Connect Hearing brand was subsequently adopted into USA, Canada, and several other countriesDuring this time, John was also a founding director of a new industry association, the Hearing Care Industry Association which actively lobbied Govt to enhance hearing care, and was also part of the industry's first combined attempt to raise funds and profile with the public - the Silent Leadership Challenge - where John emulated the stressful conditions suffered by hearing impaired people by wearing ear muffs into everyday situations.

Queensland, Northern Nsw

John managed a retail property portfolio comprising five Woolworths and Big W anchored shopping centres in regional cities, optimising tenancy mix and return for the landlord. John lead a small but high performing leasing team, and was himself a member of a team that built and leased a $50M greenfields complex in Dalby, a resources driven corridor in southern Queensland

Sydney

John integrated three subsidiary brands, and developed a new Vision, Brand identity and brand promise for the combined business, Laubman and Pank Optometrists. This required him to restructure the new business and position it for sustainable growth. John had management and leadership of 500 people in 140 locations Australia-wide. The business exceeded YTD EBIT forecast by 11% in the final year under Johns leadership.

Auckland, New Zealand

John had overall country management responsibility and leadership of a team of 160 in 35 retail locations. In just 2 years, John turned this business around, recording a 275% EBIT growth by strengthening and revitalising the retail offer. He totally overhauled the team structure and composition, introducing a coaching approach to OPSMs business in New Zealand. John created a key preferred supplier relationship with NZ's leading health fund. In addition to organic growth achieved through a new and fully engaged team, John acquired two competitors and totally repositioned the NZ business within the OPSM group. By the time John departed New Zealand and his dedicated team of 'optical warriors', the NZ business owned all but one KPI in the Australasian business.

Graduate Certificate In Management, Monash Mt Eliza

Business Management

Education record

Activities and Societies: School Vice Captain, Prefect