Lindsay Macdonald

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Associate Director - Technology Advisory @ KPMG Australia
Melbourne, VIC, AU
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australia
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About Lindsay Macdonald

An experienced technology leader with superb stakeholder engagement and commercial business acumen. Over 15 years' experience improving business maturity, agility and growth by building and developing high performing teams to deliver digital transformation across diverse industries including technology and higher education. Recognised as strategic thinker with the ability to build enduring relationships and align people with strategy to drive business change. Passionate about delivering business and customer value, and brings expert strategic analysis and problem-solving skills which unlock improvement, performance and new market opportunities. An excellent communicator who influences at the highest executive levels and speaks internationally on improving technology adoption and maximising business value.Expertise: Leadership | Strategy | Transformational change | Consulting | Customer Experience | Problem Solving | Portfolio, Program & Project Management | Facilitation | Commercial acumen | Value Selling | Scaled agile

Lindsay Macdonald's Current Company Details
KPMG Australia

Kpmg Australia

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Associate Director - Technology Advisory
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Website:
kpmg.com.au
Employees:
9111
Lindsay Macdonald Work Experience Details
  • Kpmg Australia
    Associate Director - Technology Advisory
    Kpmg Australia
    Melbourne, Vic, Au
  • Educatordata.Com
    Advisory Board Member
    Educatordata.Com Feb 2024 - Present
    Providing strategic advice to EducatorData.com leadership, helping them make critical business decisions and shape their journey.EducatorData.com provide analytic insights to the Education sector for more informed, data-driven business decisions.
  • Business Relationship Management Institute (Brm Institute)
    Regional Council Board Member - Asia Pacific Community
    Business Relationship Management Institute (Brm Institute) Dec 2023 - Present
    Apac
    As a member of the Asia Pacific Council leadership team, I provide strategic advice to grow the APAC community and build the professional practice in the region.
  • Boomi
    Business Value Consulting Principal - Apj
    Boomi Aug 2023 - Present
    Helping some of APJ's largest companies grow by strengthening their data, integration and automation capabilities to reduce operating costs and improve business performance and value realisation. I provide strategic consulting advisory and insights to grow business agility and position clients to take advantage of the AI revolution.Responsibilities:• IT strategic consulting and advisory to identify strategic business capability needs, quantify value and help customers make informed… Show more Helping some of APJ's largest companies grow by strengthening their data, integration and automation capabilities to reduce operating costs and improve business performance and value realisation. I provide strategic consulting advisory and insights to grow business agility and position clients to take advantage of the AI revolution.Responsibilities:• IT strategic consulting and advisory to identify strategic business capability needs, quantify value and help customers make informed investment decisions based on measurable business value.• Provide thought leadership and expert advice to internal and external leadership.• Create and deliver business value focused tools, content and enablement to strengthen value based selling capability of all teams across the organisation, to drive regional sales growth.Accomplishments:• Influencing over $2M enterprise sales annually• Internationally recognised for delivering value selling excellence across the APJ region• Delivered strategic analysis which has been used as a basis for customer strategic planning Show less
  • Docusign
    Strategic Value Consultant, Apj
    Docusign May 2021 - Apr 2023
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Responsibilities:• Implement a customer value focussed way of working to increase regional business performance.• Consult with customers to show business value outcomes and ROI from technology adoption.• Establish the APJ Value Consulting team and practice. Accomplishments:• Created a Value Consulting methodology, assets and provided professional development.• Grew organisational capability, increasing regional sales win rates by 12% and revenue per deal by 75%… Show more Responsibilities:• Implement a customer value focussed way of working to increase regional business performance.• Consult with customers to show business value outcomes and ROI from technology adoption.• Establish the APJ Value Consulting team and practice. Accomplishments:• Created a Value Consulting methodology, assets and provided professional development.• Grew organisational capability, increasing regional sales win rates by 12% and revenue per deal by 75%, improving recurring revenue by 75% and reducing churn.• Provided customers with strategic industry and business analysis, with recommendations to improve business efficiency and performance, backed up by executive business cases which show quantified value returns.• Consulted on 57 business opportunities, worth $4.8M annual recurring revenue and $10.7M total contract value in FY2022, with a 36% win rate.• Presented digital transformation roadmaps and business cases to C-suite executives across ANZ in diverse industries including finance, health, education, mining and defence.• Collaborated with US & EMEA teams and strengthened global Value Consulting practice maturity.• Led a Sustainability taskforce to drive DocuSign’s environmental sustainability agenda and impact.• Presented to corporate events internationally on value selling and accelerating time to value.DocuSign is a sector leading $2b+ global software business of over 7000 employees and over 1M customers servicing more than 1b users world-wide. Show less
  • Monash University
    Senior Manager, Strategy & Planning
    Monash University Jan 2021 - May 2021
    Responsibilities:• Principle advisor and consultant to the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice-President. • Manage strategic and operational enterprise initiatives of institutional importance. • Build strong partnerships and strategic alliances across the organisation, external partners and government agencies.Accomplishments: • Acted on behalf of the COO and represented Monash University. • Represented Australia’s Higher Education sector and… Show more Responsibilities:• Principle advisor and consultant to the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice-President. • Manage strategic and operational enterprise initiatives of institutional importance. • Build strong partnerships and strategic alliances across the organisation, external partners and government agencies.Accomplishments: • Acted on behalf of the COO and represented Monash University. • Represented Australia’s Higher Education sector and negotiated between Government, Universities Australia (peak body) and vendor partners to resolve conflict and set the strategy for the National Credentials Platform. • Consulted across business units and leveraged data analytics to accelerate organisational ESG & NetZero reporting.• Lead panellist at the “2021 Business Relationship Management: Unplugged Oceania” APAC regional webinar.Monash University is Australia’s largest university, ranked in the top 1% globally, being a $2.7b organisation comprising 10 businesses plus affiliates servicing over 75,000 customers in 8 countries and supported by over 15,000 staff. Show less
  • Monash University
    Principal Specialist, Change Management Strategy
    Monash University Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
    Responsibilities:• Lead the enterprise business digitisation in response to COVID-19.• Provide strategic advice and consultancy to the executive leadership team. • Protect business continuity and revenue.Accomplishments: • Appointed to the enterprise COVID-19 Crisis Management Team.• Provided strategic advice and designed the business transformation roadmap. • Collaborated across business units and solved critical business problems • Transitioned 65,000… Show more Responsibilities:• Lead the enterprise business digitisation in response to COVID-19.• Provide strategic advice and consultancy to the executive leadership team. • Protect business continuity and revenue.Accomplishments: • Appointed to the enterprise COVID-19 Crisis Management Team.• Provided strategic advice and designed the business transformation roadmap. • Collaborated across business units and solved critical business problems • Transitioned 65,000 customers online, protecting the organisation’s core revenue stream. • Provided data analysis and insights to Government to allow over 2000 customers to return on-site, thus beginning the return to ‘normal’ business.• Created and led the implementation of a $3M technology strategy and architecture which established a new digital business and revenue stream, generating commercial partnerships, offering over 100 new products and driving 27% YoY growth (FY20-21).• Provided strategic advice to the CEO on emerging technology, market trends and opportunities. Show less
  • Monash University
    Chief Of Staff To The Cio
    Monash University Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
    Melbourne, Australia
    Responsibilities:• Act on behalf of the CIO.• Provide the CIO authoritative advice on strategy, emerging issues, risks and opportunities. • Oversee strategic initiatives and foster open and effective relationships across the organisation.Accomplishments: • Acted as CIO, leading the 800+ workforce and reporting to the Chief Operating Officer.• Created the organisation’s first business aligned Technology Strategy, a rolling 3 year, $500M+ investment… Show more Responsibilities:• Act on behalf of the CIO.• Provide the CIO authoritative advice on strategy, emerging issues, risks and opportunities. • Oversee strategic initiatives and foster open and effective relationships across the organisation.Accomplishments: • Acted as CIO, leading the 800+ workforce and reporting to the Chief Operating Officer.• Created the organisation’s first business aligned Technology Strategy, a rolling 3 year, $500M+ investment roadmap which was approved business executive governance board. • Created a $23M, 5 year business case to reduce organisational cybersecurity risk by replacing over 1200 aging servers and 600 legacy applications, which was approved.• Establishing CIO portfolio values, goals and KPI’s for the 800+ person team, implementing monthly performance reviews and continuous improvement.• Created a $56M, 7 year infrastructure lifecycle plan, budget and business case, which was approved.• Provided expert strategy and technology advice to external audiences, including as Keynote speaker presentation at the “IT Service Strategy & Challenges” conference, “Educause” conference (US), “Theta” conference (NZ), and a case study published in the international “Educause Review” journal.The CIO portfolio comprises a $150M+ annual budget and over 800 staff delivering 650+ applications on 26,000+ computers, driving growth across all Monash University business units. Show less
  • Monash University
    Lead, Customer Engagement & Success (Internal Consultancy)
    Monash University Dec 2015 - Mar 2018
    Melbourne, Australia
    Responsibilities:• Increase organisational effectiveness through improving relationships• Collaborate between IT and business divisions• Reduce waste, increase effectiveness and achieve greater value from IT investmentAccomplishments:• I created an 8 person customer centric Business Relationship Management (BRM) team which consulted across the organisation and improved IT-Business collaboration from ‘order taker’ to ‘trusted advisor’, increasing organisational technology… Show more Responsibilities:• Increase organisational effectiveness through improving relationships• Collaborate between IT and business divisions• Reduce waste, increase effectiveness and achieve greater value from IT investmentAccomplishments:• I created an 8 person customer centric Business Relationship Management (BRM) team which consulted across the organisation and improved IT-Business collaboration from ‘order taker’ to ‘trusted advisor’, increasing organisational technology ROI.• Appointed Vice-Chair of the global Business Relationship Management Leadership Council (peak body) and appointed Chair of the APAC Council, hosting the 2016 & 2017 conferences and strengthening BRM professional practice. Show less
  • Monash University
    Program Manager - Course Architecture (Digital Transformation)
    Monash University Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
    Melbourne, Australia
    Responsibilities:• Lead the $11m business transformational change program to restructure Monash University's core product (course) offering portfolio• Implement transformation across business, policy, systems, organisational change and marketing Accomplishments:• I established a 20 FTE matrix team comprising multiple streams and delivered the $11.2M Course Architecture program 12 months ahead of schedule and A$1m under budget! • Implemented agile… Show more Responsibilities:• Lead the $11m business transformational change program to restructure Monash University's core product (course) offering portfolio• Implement transformation across business, policy, systems, organisational change and marketing Accomplishments:• I established a 20 FTE matrix team comprising multiple streams and delivered the $11.2M Course Architecture program 12 months ahead of schedule and A$1m under budget! • Implemented agile program management and delivered the first release of the new platform in only 11 weeks! Show less
  • Monash University
    It Portfolio Manager, Education Technologies
    Monash University Mar 2012 - Jan 2014
    Clayton, Victoria, Australia
    Responsibilities:• Provide strategic leadership and technology portfolio management• Support Monash University's core revenue stream (education)• Implement governance, financial, resource, performance, project and risk managementAchievements: • I established and delivered a A$6M portfolio of technology projects and programs, leading a matrix team of 30 FTE.• I facilitated workshops with senior executive and created an Investment Logic which established… Show more Responsibilities:• Provide strategic leadership and technology portfolio management• Support Monash University's core revenue stream (education)• Implement governance, financial, resource, performance, project and risk managementAchievements: • I established and delivered a A$6M portfolio of technology projects and programs, leading a matrix team of 30 FTE.• I facilitated workshops with senior executive and created an Investment Logic which established clear and agreed business goals and criteria for investment prioritisation based on business benefits delivery. Show less
  • Monash University
    It Portfolio Manager, Student Administration
    Monash University Sep 2009 - Jan 2014
    Melbourne, Australia
    Responsibilities:• Provide technology leadership and strategy advisory• Improve the administrative systems and operational efficiency of Monash UniversityAchievements: • Created and managed the $5M annual technology portfolio, providing leadership and vision to the 22 FTE team. • Implemented structured program and Project Management methodolgies, a business led governance board, product roadmapping, resource and financial planning and performance… Show more Responsibilities:• Provide technology leadership and strategy advisory• Improve the administrative systems and operational efficiency of Monash UniversityAchievements: • Created and managed the $5M annual technology portfolio, providing leadership and vision to the 22 FTE team. • Implemented structured program and Project Management methodolgies, a business led governance board, product roadmapping, resource and financial planning and performance management. Show less
  • Business Relationship Management Institute
    Vice Chair, Business Relationship Management Institute - Global Leadership Council
    Business Relationship Management Institute Apr 2016 - Feb 2020
    Australia
    General Council chair for the Australia Business Relationship Management Institute (BRMI) Chapter. Also Vice Chair for the BRMI Council (global). The BRMI exists to inspire, promote, and develop global excellence in Business Relationship Management, leading to outstanding business value for organizational success and professional fulfillment of every individual member of the BRM community.

Lindsay Macdonald Skills

Program Management Business Analysis Stakeholder Management Leadership Change Management Governance Management Project Management Staff Development Business Strategy Analysis Team Leadership Strategic Planning Data Analysis Project Portfolio Management Project Planning Teaching Itil Building Relationships Process Improvement Customer Relations Negotiation Team Management Public Speaking Pmp Access Business Relationship Management Coaching Portfolio Management Strategic Leadership Problem Solving Educational Leadership Educational Program Design Application Portfolio Management Team Building E Learning Process Engineering Supervisory Skills Administration Microsoft Office Curriculum Design Excel Sql Word Performance Management Planning Public Relations Mop Msp Practitioner Moc

Lindsay Macdonald Education Details

  • Deakin University
    High Distinction - Awarded Deans Merit List Prize (Top 3% Of Mba Graduates)
  • Swinburne University Of Technology
    Diploma Of Project Management
  • Rmit
    Postgraduate Certificate In Technology
  • Monash University
    Postgraduate Diploma In Education
  • Monash University
    Bachelor Of Science
  • Project Management Institute
    Project Management Institute
    Project Management Professional
  • Business Relationship Management Institute
    Business Relationship Management Institute
    Business Relationship Management Professional
  • Scaled Agile Framework
    Scaled Agile Framework
    Safe Agilist
  • Scrum Alliance
    Scrum Alliance
    Agile
  • Apmg
    Apmg
    Practitioner
  • Apmg
    Apmg
    Practitioner
  • Apmg
    Apmg
    Practitioner
  • Apmg
    Apmg
    Foundation
  • Bikablo Akademie
    Bikablo Akademie
    Visual Facilitation
  • Open2Study
    Open2Study
    Strategic Management
  • The Maura Fay Group
    The Maura Fay Group
    Winning Presentations
  • The Maura Fay Group
    The Maura Fay Group
    Influencing & Principled Negotiation
  • University Of East Anglia
    The Secret Power Of Brands
  • Thomsett
    Thomsett
    • Project Management: Essential Techniques
  • Thomsett
    Thomsett
    • Business Systems Analysis: Essential Techniques

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