Neil Mckellar Email & Phone Number

Worldwide

Christchurch

Trustee of a charitable trust established to assist and advocate for homeowners made vulnerable by the Christchurch earthquakes. CIAS facilitators have helped achieve fair outcomes with insurers for about 350 vulnerable homeowners over the Trust's lifetime.

Christchurch

Directorship of the strategic programme of work transitioning the Canterbury Health System (CHS) from legacy paper-based processes to technology-enabled processes so that all the necessary clinical and business information is accurate, accessible and timely, to improve patient safety and patient outcomes, realise efficiency gains and reduce waste.Key achievements include: - aligning the programme of work with the strategic direction imperatives of national, regional and local entities - engaging primary, secondary and tertiary care entities with the programme - aligning clinical, non-clinical, information services, change management resources and external technology partners to co-ordinate activity, dependencies and avoid duplication - ensuring visibility of the programme and its successes.

Lyttelton

Learning new skills and having fun -- Lashing/unlashing containers, operating straddle cranes- Licenses to Class 4, with all endorsements – dangerous goods, forklift, Wheels Tracks and Rollers.- Improved fitness, physical condition, reduced weight and lower blood pressure

National

Drove a growth and transformation strategy to take the organisation from a small single service subsidiary company to a multi-service, multi-client independent Crown Entity Company on Schedule 4 of the Public Finance Act.Refined strategic and business planning, established monitoring and reporting mechanisms and integrated public sector accountability planning and reporting.Developed a highly engaged national team and enabling environment for growth and development. Developed high quality HR, Finance and ICT functions from scratch. Achieved a diversified and prestigious client portfolio from a base of one key personal injury client to ultimately include Health, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Real Estate and Government.Under my leadership the company achieved exceptional standards in regard to performance, people management, processes and systems performance, client and customer focus, and the environment:• Year-on-year growth in revenue from $5M to $15M, shareholder value from $400K to $4M, profitability consistently exceeding budgets and owner expectations;• High levels of engaged staff with voluntary turnover at 7.5% - about half the industry average;• Investors in People accreditation;• Workplace and Safety Management Practices tertiary accreditation;• ISO 9001 accreditation (since 2003 and revalidation every 3 years, now to 2015);• One of two New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation Awards in 2011;• Two Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards and a finalist position in the Government category of the AUT Excellence in Business Support Awards in November 2012.• Accreditation to ISO environment management system standards.

Auckland

Line management of 300+ personal injury management staff in Waikato, Auckland, Northland - claims processing centres, branches, specialist claims, entitlement and rehabilitation teams.Established the Northern Region office, relocated processing services from Auckland to Hamilton, restructured branch operations.

Wellington

Programme management responsibility for the corporate projects to implement legislative change to effect private sector entry into the accident insurance market, and the programme management of the subsequent reversal of legislation and re-nationalisation.

Nz, Australia

Delivered on assignments for New Zealand and Australian client organisations in oil and gas, defence, construction, forestry, electricity, steel, airline, health, pharmaceutical and insurance industries in a range of disciplines including project management, business strategy, quality management and organisation development.Lead the management consulting team in NZ.Established the strategic planning function and programme management office in ACC as Strategic Planning Manager, seconded for 12 months.

Education record

Te Ara Reo Maori - Wahanga 1-4

Bms, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Hr

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