Mark Thomas Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

• Specialising in assisting organisations, teams and individuals achieve their potential through:
• Organisational Culture and Design.
• Employee Engagement
• Executive Coaching
• M&A HR due diligence and integration
• HR Strategy & HR Service delivery effectiveness

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Global HR ExecutiveInterim & Contract HR HR Consulting & Executive Coaching

Melbourne, Australia

• Aurecon is a global consulting engineering and scientific services company with 7500+ people in over 20 countries.Responsible for developing the people capability across the business, to shape business rejuvenation and.
• Organisational Culture & Engagement - developing a word class' high performance' culture with particular emphasis upon 'constructive' management behaviour and through strong people engagement strategies.
• Remuneration & Reward - development and execution of strategies to increase alignment of individual performance to company goals, inclusive of Executive ownership/equity plans and short term incentive plans.
• Talent Development - learning & development frameworks covering professional staff and owners, initiated the Aurecon Campus with emphasis upon e-learning/modularised development and linkages to career paths and.
• Recruitment & Resourcing - market leading approach to sourcing of candidates to combat severe global skill shortages and significant organic growth through global recruitment pipelines, employer branding & e.
• Succession - Developed and lead global executive/senior management talent review and succession process aligned to long term company strategy.

Melbourne, Australia

• At the time Minter Ellison was the largest full service law firm operating across Asia Pacific. This was an interim role upon returning from the UK. Human Resources Director
• Developed and implemented Minters first HR strategy
• Designed a Partner Leadership Program focussing on the development of future Partners, and developed Partner performance and selection criteria.
• Achieved a 25% reduction in employee turnover through focus on staff engagement.

London, United Kingdom

• Global management and technology consultants headquartered in London. 5,000 staff across UK, US, Europe, US & Middle East. Employee owned with revenue GBP 750M. Responsible for strategic and operational HR services to.
• Led the review and revitalisation of Partner group across 20 countries; managing business restructuring, exits and hires across, succession and executive leadership development
• Introduced HR shared services concept, reducing HR headcount by 30%, saving GBP 4M pa
• Managed HR aspects associated with M&A, business integration, divestment activities and Venture Company start-ups
• Initiated focus upon staff engagement increasing overall satisfaction by 35% over 3 years.
• Implemented Diversity initiatives which saw significant increase ethnicity and gender of senior management representation

• AXA/National Mutual Funds Management Recruited to bring a commercial focus to HR during the time of the demutualisation of National Mutual and the simultaneous merger with AXA (France)/ IPO of AXA Asia Pacific. The.
• Put organisation culture on the agenda. Key player in developing AXA’s Asia Pacific Executive Leadership Program
• Recognised as trusted advisor and coach to CEO and Executive team on people issues
• Invited as co-facilitator of AXA’s Global Leadership Program in Bordeaux, France
• Improved HR’s service rating from 20% to 93%

Melbourne, Australia

• Joined in Adelaide and promoted to Melbourne based Head Office role
• Managed and oversaw all operational HR activities and services across Australia coving 22,000+ employees;
• Responsible for all HR business planning and budget process ($900M); HR representative in NAB’s Group Strategy processes
• HR lead on major banking transformation project across Australia; including 2,500 redundancies/ creation of 4,000part time roles and associated Union issues with no successful legal claims against the business
• Initiated and led the development of Manager Assessment & Development Centres which was later introduced across NAB globally