John Blackwell Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

GRC Solutions specialise in adaptive e-learning technologies, improving speed to competence, enhancing cognitive engagement, and reducing mandatory training hours. Our Salt® applications have been built specifically to support compliance teams with robust reporting and deep data analytics. Using our platform, clients can quickly and easily build, deploy, manage, and report on essential compliance training across their organisation. We provide a comprehensive library of subscription content designed to service a range of sectors. We also build customised and bespoke e-learning, drawing on the deep experience of our team and the agility of our technology to deliver complex projects on time and on budget for our clients.My role is charged with evolving our business model to include working with select partners to distribute our software and content and identify aligned businesses to enhance our broader market offer. I continue to provide support and guidance to other members of the team as well as actively generating new partnerships and market opportunities.

Sydney, Australia

John is currently Head of Sales at GRC Solutions and works with a highly self-motivated team of talented professionals who focus on building relationships with people to help them deliver solutions to their organisations.After working in a variety of external and internally facing roles with PwC for nearly 20 years, John has applied knowledge, experience and skills to ensuring that our clients adopt and implement the solution that best fits their e-learning and policy management needs. John has transitioned from business development to a Head of Sales role as well as account managing a broad client portfolio in addition to fulfilling responsibilities in an Operations role.The sales professionals at GRC Solutions provide account management, solution consulting and maintain a keen oversight in the lifecycle of a product implementation to ensure that the organisation and their employees benefit from the investment made.John gets a buzz when a contact he has worked with before, invites him to present our solutions at their new organisation. "The products and solutions sell themselves; the relationships we build with people help them to endure".

Sydney, Australia

Sales – generate, qualify and close leads through consultation and demonstration of product and course content Marketing – co-ordinating and contributing to email and surface mail communications relating to brochure-ware and course development Account Management – ongoing dialogue and correspondence with clients as to product requirements including licence renewal and upsell, functional and feature enhancements and product and service feedback Client Service – ongoing assistance, support and guidance through training and provision of ad hoc admin and reporting Product Upgrades and Functional enhancement – input to team discussions and scoping of product enhancements, review of functional changes and presentation to clients Event management – planning and executing trade stands and exhibiting at major industry and professional body conferences and internal product seminars and compliance forums My role engages me with: partners, senior lawyers and other legal staff in the law firm and a wide range of roles in corporate, educational and government organisations across multiple industry sectors in the Australian market including; Company Directors, Board Members and Senior Executives, General, Corporate and Legal Counsel, Company Secretary, Learning and Development and Human Resource Management.

Sydney, Australia

Blake Dawson Technology became GRC Solutions in March 2012 - please see my profile outline for details of duties

Hull June 1988 to March 1997London March 1997 to April 1998Manchester April 1998 to May 2005Sydney June 2005 to December 2007

O Levels, Gcse

Secondary school education

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Primary School education