Leading People & Culture is a boutique consulting practice that partners with companies of all sizes that are striving for a competitive advantage by maximizing the performance of their employees and culture.We seek to understand your macro business challenges and opportunities, and then reveal how people and culture can support your success. Our services have been simplified and transformed from proven best in class multinational corporate people and culture processes and tools. These will be customized to meet your specific operational and strategic requirements. We partner with leaders to complete the journey from good to great people and culture.Leading People & Culture develop a Score Card that will measure your progress and demonstrate the significant financial gain that can be achieved by elevating your employee’s engagement and creating a great culture.Leading People & Culture will transform the way you think and view your strategic approach to people and culture. We can be your outsourced HR Director, or transform and support your existing resources. However you work with Leading People & Culture, you will never again see HR as a function that is just a cost to your business. It will become a valuable strategic partner that is critical to your business improving at a rate faster than your competitors.

Strategic consulting, due diligence and implementation responsibility for all Caterpillar’s global M&A projects.Lead the development of a standard acquisition integration process for Caterpillar’s Global acquisitions.Developed, implemented and manage a detailed process to have acquired companies fully integrated to Caterpillar HR policies, practices and systems on the day of close.Reviewed Caterpillar’s due diligence process and lead the inclusion of implementation due diligence to enhance the first year financial return of acquisitions.

HR Director for the Asia Pacific region, covering 7,500 employees and 12 countries from India to China and Japan to Australia. As a new role, this provided the opportunity for me to establish HR as a strategic business partner. I developed a keen understanding of the diverse people and HR issues that exist in a region such as Asia Pacific, and learnt how to use this to provide the vision and leadership to create a high performance work culture. Member of Caterpillar Inc Global Diversity CouncilCompany Directorship duties – multiple companiesManage regional people strategy and business planCaterpillar Institute – Apprentice training businessRegional Leadership development programRegional emergency response coordinatorDepartment budget US$20MAreas of Accountability:Performance Management, Compensation and Benefits, People Development, Recruitment, Industrial Relations, Personnel Services & HR Administration, Multi-country pension fund, Regional OH&S and Security, Internal and Dealer training, Employee Learning, Facility Management, Communication and Public Affairs, Workforce and Succession Planning, Employee Mobility/Expat.

Company Director dutiesManage defined benefit superannuation plan – A$100m assetsOn-site industrial relations – 3 EBAs and Union relationshipManage strategic business plan and supported the annual business planning processIndustrial relations, compensation and benefits, personnel services, performance management, employee development, workforce planning, succession planning and recruitment.Payroll for 1,000 employees.Facility OH&S and facility security Australia wide training plans and Dealer service trainingCaterpillar Institute – Apprentice training business6 Sigma and continuous business process improvementPerformance and development processTeam Leader development programExpat AdministrationDepartment budget US$4.0M

Manage all engineering functions within the Manufacturing Resources Department. Engineering design, tooling design, engineering co-ordination, MRP II releasing and industrial engineeringManage department strategic planning and annual business planManage the marketing and product support for mining truck bodies and excavator bucketsLead a team of 12, coaching this team toward self-managementInitiate and lead the implementation of self-managed work teams within the department and factory floorIdentify and implement product to increase department RevenueDevelop and maintain sales and operations meetings

Manage the engineering aspects of product manufacturedSupervise a team of 5Management of project costs and programDivision budget

Manage projects from sales through costing, design, manufacture, installation and commissioning. Project Value $ 100K - $ 3MOverall project responsibilityContract Administration, costing and negotiation of variationsSupervision of design draftspeople.Management and co-ordination of subcontractorsEnsure projects comply with client quality requirements and AS3901Liaison with foreman, boilermakers, fitters and electricians during design, manufacture and installation of projectsPlan, co-ordinate and implement project installations

Manage Design DepartmentStaff include 3 Project Engineers, 1 Research & Development Engineer, 1 Junior Engineer and 5 Design DraftspeopleDevelop sales concepts and provide technical supportClient and tender negotiationsCo-ordinate projects through international agentsEnsure projects comply with AS3901Annual budget, Design Department BudgetProfit and loss, overhead recovery, estimate to complete, work in progress, resource levels and productivity.Design Department Strategic Planning Productivity assessment and improvementCo-ordinate product development direction and supervise Research & DevelopmentProvide technical and marketing information

Design and manage projects from sales concept through costing, design, manufacture, installation and commissioning. Project value $50K to $3MStructural and mechanical computationsSupervision of design draftspeopleLiaise with boilermakers and fitters during design and manufacture of projects