A grand goal – but our work is about creating a culture focused on leader effectiveness and employee performance - driving a learning culture, developing our Executive team and leaders, developing our leader bench strength and talent.We’re focused on achieving business outcomes by having leaders and employees with the right competencies for future. In conjunction with Korn Ferry, we’ve done the work of identifying the competencies we see as critical for success in the next five years and are in the process of implementing these across the business and within all of our people processes and practices.We’re gaining lots of experience and knowledge as a result of assessing our leaders, identifying the most appropriate development approaches to address needs and working hard to gain maximum value out of the performance review process.

Diverse and challenging role. Currently involved in developing and implementing a Leadership Framework and aligned HR initiatives and development programs for the Australian business. Focused on addressing diversity and inclusion, talent and succession, mentoring, leadership development, including coaching of leadership teams.

Role focused on the successful delivery of enterprise wide culture and engagement initiatives - Speak Up Step Up (SUSU) and the Organisational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI)* Consulting with senior leaders, global teams and entities and vendor to ensure alignment with key strategic goals* Working closely with vendor to ensure the most cost-effective and value-adding outcomes for the organisation* Managing all operational and technical aspects of a complex project – including employee communications, partner training and support, technical advice, problem solving, validation of large amounts of employee data - in very short time frames* Working with vendor to customise design to meet needs of leaders and other users at all levels of the organisation* Supporting teams across the business on appropriate interventions and action plans* Preparing presentations for audiences at all levels of the organisation, as well as Board and external reporting requirements.

Role focused on initiatives to do with culture, leadership behaviours, engagement and retention.* Developed and gained strong Executive Committee and business leader support, for a set of company behaviours aligned to the company’s strategic vision. Worked with other global groups to organize for the integration of the behaviours into all HR processes and systems and led the change management program across People Group functions and pilot Locations to support the implementation of the behaviours..* Management of the engagement survey which, in 2012-13, was administered to 24,000 employees in locations around the world, as well as Global businesses and Global functions.* Led program to address company's retention challenges. Developed a comprehensive set of tools and programs to support managers in managing retention and led the successful implementation of these in a number of key locations with significant attrition challenges, including Queensland, China, Oman and Canada* Engaged and managed vendors to provide one-on-one coaching for executives and senior managers and worked with vendors to develop assessment tools aligned to the company’s strategy and core behaviours.

Developed and led the Learning & Organisation Development function for WorleyParsons’ business (5500 employees) in Australia & New Zealand (ANZ).* Managed the design, development and implementation of suite of leadership development programs for leaders at all levels of the organisation* Developed and managed the implementation of compliance, technical and ‘soft skills’ training programs* Developed and implemented company-wide talent and succession management systems and processes across Australia* Managed employee engagement initiatives* Developed and supported the business in the implementation of organisation-specific competency frameworks* Developed workforce capability strategy, as well as whole-of-ANZ training plan and processes and systems, to support the organisation’s strategy for growth* Responsibility for national Graduate program of over 300 graduates* Worked with vendor to configure learning management system (LMS) to enable consistent recording and reporting of training activities in order to meet ISO9001 requirements

Managed the development and implementation of HR and Organisation Development Projects, including:* design and implementation of new organisation-wide induction and orientation program* a review of all HR business processes across locations in a number of countries* development of e-learning compliance programs.

Significant experience in business relationship development, consulting and the management of learning and organisational development as Leadership Development Consultant, Organisation Development Consultant and L&D Manager.Responsible for:* L&D strategy* assessing workforce capability and supporting workforce planning efforts* change management activities* coaching corporate directors and senior managers* management and leadership development activities* supporting organisation-wide strategic HR initiatives, including reviews of performance management system and leadership behaviour framework* facilitating change management workshops for managers involved in out-sourcing initiatives and restructuring activities* monitoring and reporting on completion by all employees of compliance training* negotiating and managing contracts and relationships with training vendors* managing the L&D cost centre and overseeing approval of all expenditure in IT training budget * operational processes for providing external vendor training to over 400 IT people* developing e-learning programs to support cross-organisation learning needs* implementing new e-learning technologies to provide just-in-time training* managing cross-organisational HR and L&D projects* maintenance and reporting of L&D information in learning management system* career development initiatives to support employee engagement* design and delivery of program and project management and capital governance programs.

* Managed needs analysis and research, planning, curriculum development, quality assurance and evaluation of competency-based general education courses and programs offered by TAFE NSW* Managed major national policy and research projects* Managed needs analysis, design and facilitation of professional development activities for teachers and Institute Managers across NSW* On secondment, completed a research project for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on factors which impact students' completion of vocational courses. The research publication is titled "Staying on course: Factors which impact on students completing their courses" and is available on the NCVER website, http://www.ncver.edu.au/

* Managing a Registered Training Organisation (RTO), including all aspects of planning and implementing business plans, budgets and marketing strategies; managing Centre’s financial resources; managing Centre staff – comprising professional, academic and administrative staff.* Initiating and managing consultancy projects addressing organisations’ training needs - in areas including training needs analyses, performance management; project management, designing competency standards; developing organisation-wide competency-based assessment systems; developing and evaluating training programs.* Managing the development, quality, implementation and on-going evaluation of public and in-house nationally-accredited continuing professional education programs.

Establishment and development of a Science and Technology Education Centre – to the point where the Centre became self-funding, had seven full time staff and eighty casual staff and ran training programs for over 1000 teacher members, along with additional community and student programs for another 5500 participants.* Executive Officer to the Centre's Board of Directors* Responsibility, as Company Secretary, for legal requirements such as preparation of annual report, annual general meeting.* Identification, in conjunction with the Board, a vision for the Centre as a focus of science, technology and mathematics education in Victoria and Australia* Planning and implementation of an extensive calendar of diverse and innovative science and mathematics teacher professional development and community education programs* Design and facilitation of professional development and training programs for teachers, university staff, community members* Responsibility for the management and professional development of the Centre's seven full-time staff and over eighty contract staff* Preparation and management of budgets, monthly financial reports* Responsibility for marketing and fundraising* Established and maintained membership of over two thousand teacher and community members of the Centre* Development and facilitation of diversity initiatives in conjunction with Swinburne University – eg. programs for lecturing staff on “Women in Engineering”* Liaised and negotiated to secure funding for the work of the Centre. Successful proposals were made to Swinburne Institute of Technology, ICI Australia, Telstra, Comalco and the Victorian Education Foundation for the funding of the Centre's programs.