Lindsay Macdonald Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

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.

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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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:

• 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:

• 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.

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:

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.
• 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.

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:
• Implemented agile program management and delivered the first release of the new platform in only 11 weeks! Show less

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:

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:
• Implemented structured program and Project Management methodolgies, a business led governance board, product roadmapping, resource and financial planning and performance management. Show less

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.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Strategy, High Distinction - Awarded Deans Merit List Prize (Top 3% Of Mba Graduates)

Diploma Of Project Management

Postgraduate Certificate In Technology

Postgraduate Diploma In Education

Bachelor Of Science

Project Managment Professional - Pmp, Project Management Professional

An internationally recognised and respected project management qualification. Assessment and accreditation of demonstrated professional.

Business Relationship Management Professional

Safe Agilist

Certified Scrum Master, Agile

Change Management, Practitioner

Best practice OGC guidance on identifying and managing how individuals, teams and organisations respond to change. Mature and insightful.

Management Of Portfolios, Practitioner

Best practice OGC Guidance for managing portfolios of projects and programmes. Mature and tested principles, practices and methodology for.

Managing Successful Programs, Practitioner

Best practice OGC guidance on identifying, defining, managing and closing programmes of work. mature and tested principles and themes to.

Itil V3, Foundation

Best practice OGC guidance on service delivery and management. Provides a mature and robust methodology for reliable and consistent.

Visual Facilitation

Certificate Of Completion (Mooc), Strategic Management

Winning Presentations

Influencing & Principled Negotiation

Certificate Of Completion, Futurelearn (Mooc), The Secret Power Of Brands

• Project Management: Essential Techniques

• Business Systems Analysis: Essential Techniques