I have over two decades of experience leading change from technical/transactional driven change through to comprehensive organisation driven transformation. My approach is based on eight principles.1. Understand the vision, experience, and the outcomes. Success comes from understanding the vision, experience and outcomes, not just the deliverables, sought from a change initiative and an understanding from the outset of how success will be measured, it’s alignment with the organisation’s strategies and how progress will be monitored.2. Understand the constraints, e.g. the investment/budget and time.3. Understand the culture. Work out the cultural context, what changes and how that will be accomplished.4. Identify who and how individuals and groups are affected5. Determine how can they be involved?6. Identify business as usual matters that will need addressing to release capacity and capability. Change requires additional effort on top of business as usual. It’s necessary to “make room” for the work and it might be necessary to “fix” some things associated with the change initiative first.7. Establish the method framework to use. I integrate organisation change management with project and programme management methodologies to ensure an effective and permanent change.8. Build the technology and process infrastructure(s).Early years were spent in accountant roles (private and chartered). That provided a solid grounding in Finance (GL and P&L, consolidation, reporting, Payroll, Risk, asset management, etc.) and a focus on business perspectives that has remained central throughout my career. Following this, I took on various digital roles from IT/systems management through to software development management, delivery and consulting. I’m experienced with on-prem, hosted and SaaS digital infrastructures.I am experienced in a number of industries (government services and councils, manufacturing, utilities, fast moving consumer goods, food and beverage, primary industry, transport, consulting), and have worked throughout New Zealand and in Australia.