Consumer Representative on both the Consumer Advisory Committee and Blood Management Committee

Major achievements & focus:•Big Picture: Extensive strategic insight & foresight of human service industry /sectors big picture drivers, forces & trends. •Brave Discussions, Bold Decisions: a demonstrated track record of engaging and facilitating brave discussions & bold decisions with boards, chief executive officers and executives to address complex governance and organizational situations & develop powerful visions & pragmatic strategies and projects… Show more Major achievements & focus:•Big Picture: Extensive strategic insight & foresight of human service industry /sectors big picture drivers, forces & trends. •Brave Discussions, Bold Decisions: a demonstrated track record of engaging and facilitating brave discussions & bold decisions with boards, chief executive officers and executives to address complex governance and organizational situations & develop powerful visions & pragmatic strategies and projects. •Specialisations: governance, leadership and management, strategy, business development & strategic transformation, quality, business excellence & organisational development, amalgamations, mergers & partnerships.•Key Customers: in 37 years, directly worked with the leaders of over 6,500 community, private, public & government businesses; with a primary focus on aged care, healthcare, hospitals, disability, ambulance, employment, peak bodies & related human service organisations throughout Australia.•M&As & Partnerships: facilitated & project managed 278 amalgamations & mergers & 63 partnership or joint venture projects.•NFP Focused: 95% of projects are community businesses / NFPs, 60% - 65% of which are with rural, regional and remote organisations, 100% repeat or referral business.•Community Business: in 1992, designed and applied community business principles and practices, enabling leaders of NFPs to operate in a customer driven, competitive marketplace.•Develops Resources: the development and practical application of BizPlan™, a strategic planning system, TAGS™, The Australian Governance System, MAPS™, the merger, amalgamation and partnership system, Transform™, the organisational transformation system; along with other unique models, tools and packages.• Webinars, Presentations and Articles: keenly sought after as an engaging, strategic and inspiring speaker at international, national and state conferences and webinars ; extensive development of educative articles and presentations. Show less

Better Boards Australasia connects the leaders, chief executive officers, board members and senior management teams, of Australasian not-for-profit organisations to the knowledge and networks necessary to grow and develop their leadership skills and build a strong governance framework for their organisation.Better Boards Australasia does this by connecting great ideas and great people in order to transform not-for-profit organisations. Stronger leaders and leadership teams create a… Show more Better Boards Australasia connects the leaders, chief executive officers, board members and senior management teams, of Australasian not-for-profit organisations to the knowledge and networks necessary to grow and develop their leadership skills and build a strong governance framework for their organisation.Better Boards Australasia does this by connecting great ideas and great people in order to transform not-for-profit organisations. Stronger leaders and leadership teams create a stronger sector.Better Boards Australasia delivers the Australasian Better Boards Conference, Better Boards Master Classes and Seminars, Better Boards Webinars, Better Boards Newsletters and Better Boards Resources. The Australasian Better Boards Conference is the premier leadership and governance conference for board members, chief executive officers and senior management teams of Not for Profit organisations. Show less

Focused on providing theoretical and practical advice, observations, learnings and reflections on amalgamations and mergers of not-for-profits to students undertaking their Masters by research in the aforementioned areas.

The NTAU was the specialist consulting unit of Australian Management College Mt Eliza, which merged into Melbourne Business School, Melbourne University NTAU delivered over 300 strategic transformation projects across Australia, established 8 national networks, developed goverance and strategic management tools and delivered executive management courses.

Australian Human Services Group (AHSG) operated four companies that specialised in vocational rehabilitation services, clinical services, labour market services and strategic services. AHSG employed 49 consultants and operated offices in Hobart, Launceston, Devonport and Burnie.The core business, vocational rehabilitation, serviced 70% of the workers compensation market and 40% of the road accident market in Tasmania, along with the personal injury and accident and medico legal markets.