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Tasmania, Australia

Culture | Leadership | Performance

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Behaviour change that sticks.• Organisational strategy, culture and change• Leadership development, team facilitation and 1-1 coaching• Wellbeing, engagement and psychological safety• Talent and learning strategy, building capability frameworks• Assessments for recruitment and development (e.g. psychometrics and 360s)• Career development• Leading small team

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Led performance, learning & development and several leadership development programs for the university.• Led major change across the university in the focus of the annual performance cycle to more flexible, higher quality and regular conversations that cover goals, feedback, learning and work wellbeing.• Developed and led the university's staff learning and development plan, leading several multidisciplinary teams to embed Aalto’s strategic competencies; develop competency frameworks for teacher digi-skills, researchers, and service personnel; develop innovative tools for learning design; and drive the systemisation of learning impact measurement• Designed and facilitated training and team development sessions across the university about managing challenging situations, goal setting, development planning and wellbeing• Managed Leadership 101, Academic Leadership and coaching programs• Maintained the Talent side of the Workday system• Internal 360 feedback coach

• Organisational development consulting in partnership with Awen in Finland (www.awen.fi)• 1:1 and team coaching• Event management consulting. Most notably, managing a team of clinical professionals while securing funding, partnerships and volunteers for an annual health screening program for people with intellectual disabilities, conducted in association with Special Olympics Australia’s SOAR & ROAR Festival.

Sydney, Australia

Led Performance Development, Talent Management and Diversity & Inclusion• Developed the 2020 performance strategy, initiating the change management from the annual performance cycle to ongoing quality conversations.• Led consultations to optimise talent management • Developed the department's 2020 D&I strategy which aims to enhance equal opportunity and engagement for diverse staff through initiatives such as flexible working, leadership development for ALL leaders instead of just high potentials, parental leave support, training to increase core inclusion skills such as inclusive communication and unconscious bias, and enhancing and leading staff networks.• Managed the final stages of development of Treasury's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reconciliation Action Plan and initiated development of a Disability Inclusion Action Plan and Gender Equality Action Plan.

Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

• Developed and project managed three leadership programs for the people, functional and director levels of leadership across the government department.• Designed all leadership course content, including e-learning, workshops and group coaching. Example courses are Emotional Intelligence and Managing People Performance.

India & Uganda

• Developed a mentoring and leadership training program as part of a capacity building project through Rural Litigation & Entitlement Kendra for women municipal councillors in Dehradun, India.• Carried out land conflict research in Northern Uganda, undertaking base-line quantitative interviews on land conflict with local and rural residents.

Sydney & Tasmania, Australia

• Designed and conducted workforce culture evaluations for small to medium sized non-profit and commercial organisations in Tasmania; gathering and analysing data via qualitative and quantitative methods to provide practical advice for sustainable workforce solutions• Designed and productised systems such as a leadership development series, coaching, performance management, competency assessment and organisational self-evaluation tools• Developed culture transition plans for several small and medium sized organisations with measurable improvements in staff and leadership behaviour, engagement and productivity• Facilitated leadership engagement workshops and coaching with measurable returns on investment in management performance of leaders on organisational reassessment

Auckland, New Zealand

• Conducted market analyses of the international development sectors in both Australia and Sri Lanka, contributing to the development of business cases for future work in those sectors• Conducted extensive research and policy analysis for project proposals.

Espoo, Finland

• Working language: Finnish• Supervised training for students who needed special and extensive support and whose learning capacity or situation did not allow them to complete a vocational upper secondary qualification. The training's aim was to strengthen the students’ daily living and work skills and help them to find their path to employment.• Provided advice in the development and running of physical education programs.• Worked daily 1:1 with students with disabilities from 15-20 years old, ranging from autism, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, blindness and a range of other disabilities.

Sydney, Australia

Led several specialist teams to deliver sports, health and leadership programs nationally• 2014 Asia-Pacific representative on the Special Olympics Athlete Global Health Advisory Committee• Introduced “Health Promotion” to the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes program in Australia, as well as managing a team of clinical professionals to conduct over 6,000 health screenings in five health areas across state, national and international events over 2 years, more than double from the previous 4-yearly competition cycle• Progressed the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes program to the “Healthy Communities” initiative in Australia, with the view to expand one-off health screening events to ongoing, impactful and sustainable health programs within communities across Australia• Drove crucial change in strategic direction of Special Olympics Athlete Leadership, leading a team to enhance the coordination, resourcing, data collection and management, and curriculum content and delivery• Established major collaborative partnerships, including Sports Dietitians Australia and Australian Hearing Services to resource and deliver associated health disciplines nationally.• Secured funding through submission of grants and partnerships, managing budgets to deliver organisational objectives within budget guidelines, securing and coordinating Value In Kind services from $20,000 to $500,000, associated with health, leadership and events.• Recognised coaching as a crucial under resourced area, project managing research and development in the absence of staff capacity, identifying the organisation’s inability to quantify coaching quality, resulting in resource allocation and embedding in strategic plan• Through staff resignations, took on coordination of Young Athletes program pilots for 140 athletes 2-7 years over 4 pilot sites

Tasmania, Australia

• Identified crucial opportunity for junior development, creating this new role and taking on responsibilities on top of existing fulltime community development position• Established multiple junior sports programs state wide, tripling junior participation across the state in weekly training and competition• Formed collaborative working group with several peak sport and disability bodies and state government departments to deliver community based events to connect young children with disabilities and their families with sporting opportunities within their communities.

Tasmania, Australia

• Developed organisation’s program delivery capacity across the state through volunteer recruitment, partnership building and community engagement to cater for young people with an intellectual disability to engage in sport on a regular ongoing basis.• Developed, implemented and coordinated community engagement programs and events, taking Special Olympics into the education and community sector, engaging schools, sports and disability service providers state-wide, increasing participation of people with intellectual disabilities in Tasmania by 500% within a 1 year period from 2010-11• Coordinated a minimum of 27 community and state events per year state-wide over a 3year period, managing large teams of volunteers to deliver events• Established mutually beneficial relationships with state sporting bodies across 11 sports for the delivery of sport to over 900 people with intellectual disabilities in Tasmania• Piloted and progressed national Special Olympics community engagement programs from one off events to regular community participation over a 2 year period• Drove awareness campaigns targeting recruitment of members, sponsorship and brand recognition• Collaborated with sports clubs to build inclusive community environments to transition participants from events to regular ongoing participation

Certified Organisational Coach (Level 2)

Bachelor Of Social Research & Policy, Development Studies, Distinction

Diploma Of Leadership And Management

Certificate Iii, Sport & Recreation