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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Provide strategic advice and lead end-to-end change delivery of a multi-year, large scale digital transformation program and cultural change initiatives, involving changes to people, process, and technology, to enable improved stakeholder and employee experience, enhanced operational excellence and public value.Develop and implement multiple change management strategies and plans to proactively manage change impacts, risks, drive engagement, enable readiness, adoption, and sustainable practices.Advising the executive leadership team on the change portfolio, provide a single-view of change and build organisational change management capability. Support and collaborate with leaders and project teams on changes in education with national impact. 🌟Key achievements: Significant growth in employees’ perceptions in engagement surveys that the organisation manages change well- 9% above sector benchmark.Strong adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working, evident in adoption metrics.

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Change Lead at the Change Management Office, a central strategic point for DFSI on change management, and the governance, structure and implementation of major transformation programs and change initiatives across the organisation.🌟Key achievement: Led the establishment and mobilisation of an organisation-wide Ambassadors Network, with over 100 state-wide members, active and visible executive sponsorship and strong employee engagement.

Led the implementation of change management plans across all program streams (system, policy and legislation) and business groups, at both strategic and operational levels. Partnered with Treasury’s Corporate Group, including HR, Communications, and IT to plan and embed change in organisational practices.🌟Key achievement: led the development of a Target Operating Model for the NSW Treasury, to support the sustainable implementation of FMT reforms and enable the vision of becoming a World Class Treasury.

Led a review of the FEO operating model, the development and implementation of a comprehensive Action Plan, with a focus on building its capability as a strategic advisor to the NSW Government. Managed stakeholder engagement including facilitation of a Community of Practice of Program Management Offices across the NSW public sector.🌟Key achievement: improved FEO engagement with stakeholders, with recognition from the Secretary of the NSW Treasury for its contribution to improving the organisation’s overall collaboration with stakeholders across the sector.

Change Manager for multiple business transformation initiatives within the RailCorp Reform Program. Initiatives designed to enable the organisation to become a customer- focused organisation, through streamlined processes, significant savings, and new ways of working.🌟Key achievement: developed a pragmatic change management approach, as a part of a highly unionised and large-scale reform program and gained trust from impacted employees.

Managed the “Build Knowledge and Skills” Program, with multiple strategic organisational development projects, as a part of an organisation-wide strategic people plan (The “Our People Strategy”).Managed the development and implementation of change management plans, facilitation of change management workshops, Change Network, and a Community of Practice.Managed multi-disciplinary project teams of up to ten members each from across the business.🌟Key achievement: established best practice Lessons Learned Framework to drive innovation and maximise organisational performance. Presented the framework at several industry forums including as a co-presenter at the 2013 Australian Knowledge Management Congress.

Managed a review of project management capability. Established an innovative Capability Development Program for over 400 project management employees, to enhance a strategic organisational capability. Program aligned with organisational project management methodology and tools and industry standards. Coached senior and line managers and led the engagement and management of service providers, including academic institutions.🌟Key achievement: managed the development of a submission for the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) Project Management Achievement Award. The submission won the AIPM award for Management of Projects for Engineering Projects above $100mil.

Developed and implemented a project resource management strategy to address changing business needs, a worldwide shortage in critical resources and enhance organisational capacity to deliver the organisation’s Capital Program. Oversaw the engagement of over 180 project management resources. 🌟Key achievement: successfully implemented a new resourcing strategy to address changing business needs and global market trends. Led the development and implementation of a new project resourcing reporting framework, to increase transparency and mitigate business risk.

🌟Established and managed the development and implementation of a project management training program, as a part of an organisation- wide capability improvement and a culture change initiative.Key achievement: established a successful training program for over 250 project managers, which laid strong foundations for building the organisation’s project management capability.

Designed and managed the implementation of an organisation-wide Training Needs Analysis and the establishment of a Learning Plan for 1800 professional staff across the organisation.🌟Key achievement: established a successful first-time organisation-wide Development Plan, within tight timeframes and a highly unionised organisational climate.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Organisational Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Behavioral Sciences

Graduated with Distinction

Advanced Diploma In Project Management