John Huigen Email & Phone Number

Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

Leading the development of a Community Foundation for Alice Springs to encourage, promote and amplify community action for a stronger community and shared future. Established in August 2023 the Foundation has already been instrumental in securing the return of a printed and comprehensive newspaper.

Mparntwe Alice Springs

Leading and facilitating a network of universities, Research Centres, Aboriginal and other Health Services to collaborating to improve health outcomes in Central Australia

Across Australia And The Region

• HUIGEN ADVISORYHuigen Advisory works with boards and senior leaders to thrive in an ever-disrupted world, providing support and capacity to address barriers and realise opportunities to achieve organisational, business.
• Organisational review of a not-for-profit leading to significant interventions to address identified governance, leadership and strategy issues
• Work at Board/CEO interface to establish effective working relationship and role/accountability clarity
• Work with a board, CEO, leadership team and the whole staff on establishing a full strategy map that is vision-driven, context sensitive and provides a practical operational decision-making framework
• Establishment of change architecture for an NGO to become NDIS-ready
• Facilitated the establishment of a focussed plan and change architecture for an Australia-Pacific region division of an international services firm

Australia

Soundfair exist to eliminate the social and emotional impacts of hearing conditions. #HearingEquality. After some time working with the CEO and board on strategy/governance etc, I am delighted to be facilitating the Sound Leadership work of Soundfair. Soundfair's all about transforming lives, the system and themselves for #HearingEquality and that takes.

Australia

The Australian Digital Inclusion Alliance aims to close the digital divide in Australia, tackling access, affordability and digital ability. Over three million Australian are not digitally connected and many more don't have the skills and confidence to fully engage in the digital world. This is a deep, systemic social and economic challenge for.

Hawthorn, Victoria

Swinburne Leadership Institute promotes Leadership for the Greater Good across the public, private, and civil society sector.Leadership for the Greater Good is increasingly urgent as issues social-political and environmental challenges intensify. These challenges highlight the need for leadership that is cognizant of and responsive to the greater good..

Alice Springs, Desert Australia, Nationally And Internationally

• DKA is a Northern Territory statutory corporation with a national mandate to help build harmony, sustainability and wealth in the desert through collaboration-building, developing new approaches to address persistent.
• Revenue tripled and staffing increased fourfold through attraction of external revenue including growing partnerships with key corporates, philanthropics and government agencies including, Qantas, Telstra, BHP.
• Establishment of the Desert Knowledge Precinct including attraction of $10M of investment
• Establishment of mission and strategy-driven programs, for example:o DKA’s intercultural leadership programs – the first leadership programs in Australia explicitly designed to bring Aboriginal and other Australians.
• Establishment of an Approved Research Institute as a major strategy and business opportunity, enabling the attraction of new thinking, partners and Deductible Gift Recipient funds
• Significant representational, lobbying and media engagement

• With a total turnover of $100M (2006), Ngaanyatjarra Council is a significant enterprise which incorporated a number of businesses including an airline, fuel distribution, transport services, as well as health.
• Restructured Council operations, coupling them with community advisory committees and establishing new senior management structure and accountabilities
• Established Australia’s first Regional Partnership Agreement between the Council and three tiers of Government, securing longer-term funding stability, solvency of four communities and national positioning
• Closed down unprofitable businesses
• Strengthened constituent engagement mechanisms and involvement in regional and business governance

East Melbourne

• After initially contributing to research John progressed to provide the overall business, corporate and financial management of the world-leading multidisciplinary group from which the world-renowned Cochlear ‘Bionic.
• Involved in strategic and revenue development planning of the Bionic Ear Institute
• Establishment of internal cost centres and user pays internal services, e.g. ICT, laboratory services
• Negotiated significant FOC increase in available office and lab space
• Established fundraising team and key partnerships, e.g. Telstra Bionic Ear Telethon
• Secured funding for and managed the delivery of integrated IT solution across the whole group

East Melbourne

Master’S Degree, Science (Cochlear Implants)

Graduate Diploma, Business Administration And Management

Diploma In Audiology, Audiology/Audiologist

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Physiology And Biochemistry

Year 12