Jacques Schutte Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Australia

Specialist in driving organisational transformation with a focus on people, culture, and workforce excellence.Key responsibilities:Design bespoke solutions for clients on a range of people-centric business challenges.Lead and manage projects from initiation to completion, ensuring solutions are executed effectively and deliver sustainable client outcomes.Partner with senior leaders and key stakeholders to design and implement people-first solutions that drive organisational effectiveness.Mentor and develop team members, fostering a collaborative, high-performing consulting team culture.Drive continuous improvement of internal consulting methodologies, enhancing the firm’s consulting maturity and delivery capability.Contribute to business development by crafting proposals and building lasting client relationships.Areas of expertise:Organisational Design & Development – Designing team structures, operating models, and role architectures to support strategic objectives.Change Management – Embedding change initiatives using frameworks like ADKAR and Kotter, enabling leader-led change and employee adoption.Cultural Transformation – Shaping and embedding organisational values, behaviours, and ways of working to create aligned, people-driven cultures.People Analytics & Workforce Insights – Leveraging data and analytics to drive evidence-based decision-making and optimise workforce planning.Leadership Development & Capability Uplift – Building leader capability through targeted workshops, coaching, and bespoke development programs.Process Improvement & Operational Maturity – Applying process mapping and analytics to reduce inefficiencies, streamline workflows, and foster cross-functional collaboration.Through the successful delivery of 10 large-scale organisational development, change management, and cultural transformation initiatives, I supported clients in achieving tangible improvements in employee engagement and overall organisational effectiveness.

Brisbane, Australia

As Management Consulting Practice Lead at Bushell & Cornish, I specialised in organisational development, change management, and cultural transformation, driving sustainable change and workforce capability uplift. I led multidisciplinary teams to execute complex consulting projects, ensuring they were completed on time, within scope, and on budget, while maintaining strong, lasting client relationships.Key responsibilities:Leading cross-functional teams of consultants to deliver bespoke solutions for clients across various sectors.Developing and implementing strategies that aligned with clients’ long-term goals, driving organisational growth and efficiency.Advising senior leadership on strategic initiatives, including organisational design, business transformation, and workforce planning.Continuously improving and evolving consulting methodologies, ensuring alignment with best practices.Areas of expertise:Organisational Design & Target Operating Models – Redesigning structures and processes to improve agility, role clarity, and alignment with business strategy.Organisational and Process Reviews – Conducting people, process and structure assessments to optimise performance and identify growth opportunities.Target Operating Model Development – Aligning operating models with strategic goals and objectives.Strategic Workforce Planning – Designing people strategies, succession plans, and employee value propositions to improve talent management.Change Enablement – Embedding change through ADKAR, Kotter’s 8-Step Model, and co-design approaches to ensure stakeholder buy-in.Cultural Transformation – Embedding values, behaviours, and ways of working that support strategic goals and enhance employee experience.By leading over 25 large-scale organisational development, change management, and cultural transformation projects, I enabled clients to achieve measurable improvements in efficiency, employee engagement, and operational performance.

Sydney, Australia

At the time of employment, the holding company for Thomas International Australia established a separate consulting company called Assessment Centre Technologies, and although I was still employed by Thomas International Australia, I was required to play a dual role between Thomas International and Assessment Centre Technologies, both locally in Australia and in the region (South Africa and Malaysia).Role focus:• Continued duties as Senior Regional Trainer (listed below).• Focus on technology innovation and assessment design. • Design and create assessment-based solutions for clients.• Lead and manage a team of local and international psychologists, psychometrists and consultants.• Sourcing and securing of end-to-end consulting projects.• Presentation at local and international marketing events.• Presentation of consulting and assessment project outcomes to executive and senior management.

Sydney, Australia

Required to play a dual role between Thomas International (Australia) and Assessment Centre Technologies, both locally in Australia and in the region (South Africa and Malaysia).Role focus:• Continued duties as Senior Regional Trainer (listed below).• Focus on technology innovation and assessment design. • Design and create assessment-based solutions for clients.• Lead and manage a team of local and international psychologists, psychometrists and consultants.• Sourcing and securing of end-to-end consulting projects.• Presentation at local and international marketing events.• Presentation of consulting and assessment project outcomes to executive and senior management.

Sydney, Australia

At this time Thomas International Africa Asia Pacific (AAP) expanded into Australia and I was transferred from South Africa to Sydney, Australia.Role focus:• Tasked with the establishment of a new regional head office in Sydney to enable and ensure the growth of the overall business in Australia.• Transfer knowledge and know-how on all assessments and consulting practices to the local team of psychologists and consultants.• Continue to provide assessment accreditation and training sessions for Australian and Asia Pacific regional clients.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Thomas International South Africa was expanding its territory at this time into the Asia-Pacific region. I started playing a local as well as an international role.National role focus:• Assisted business development consultants with client visits, solution development and project delivery.• Lead presenter in marketing presentations where new solutions were offered to clients.• Delivery of all local accreditation courses (five major cities in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia)• Designed and delivered all assessment-based consulting projects through the coordination of organisational psychology specialists and business consultants.International role focus:At this time Thomas International South Africa launched the cognitive assessment in the Asia-Pacific region. This region included China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand.• Trained, mentored and developed all internal staff across the Asia-Pacific region on existing and new assessments.• Delivered all cognitive assessment accreditations to Asia Pacific clients, as well as behaviourally-based workshops and training sessions.• Keynote speaker at various regional marketing events and expert conferences.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

In 1999, Thomas International South Africa received the rights from the parent company in the UK to distribute a new psychometric assessment. This assessment measured general mental ability and was seen as a cognitive assessment. This kind of assessment was quite tricky to launch within the South African environment due to social, educational and political factors. I was appointed to increase sales of this assessment by training internal staff as well as clients in the assessment itself and to develop the assessment for the South African context.DUTIES:• Training of business development consultants in the usage and application of the cognitive assessment.• Visiting clients with business development consultants to assist in accurate representation and solutions design.• Developed and delivered client based accreditation courses based on the cognitive assessment.• Researched validity and reliability of the assessment in South African environment.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

At the time, PAG Recruitment was one of the largest national recruitment agencies in South Africa.Role focus:• Business development through cold calling and client meetings• Account and candidate management• Candidate screening and matching to short-medium term / temporary financial assignments

Executive Certificate, People Analytics: Transforming Hr Strategy With Data Science

Certificate, Rasch Statistical Measurement (Advanced)

Master’S Degree, Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Honours In Psychology

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Organisational Psychology