Tom O'Callaghan Email & Phone Number

Westmead

Sydney, Australia

"Tom is an incredibly intelligent, grounded and extremely effective and impactful leader. In my role as Managing Director of British American Tobacco Australasia with a team of over 2000 employees across 20 countries. Having worked with Tom for over 15 years in numerous different roles and geographies, on numerous large re-organisational projects across Asia Pacific and Africa I can attest to his deep level of skills and world class abilities in the areas of change management, stakeholder… Show more "Tom is an incredibly intelligent, grounded and extremely effective and impactful leader. In my role as Managing Director of British American Tobacco Australasia with a team of over 2000 employees across 20 countries. Having worked with Tom for over 15 years in numerous different roles and geographies, on numerous large re-organisational projects across Asia Pacific and Africa I can attest to his deep level of skills and world class abilities in the areas of change management, stakeholder engagement and organisation wide communication around strategic change agendas. His personality, his deep contact with people, his intellect on structural change and the ability to mobilise organisations around the change agenda is extremely highly developed. He has the ability to combine highly developed competencies around people leadership and engagement with world class communication and change management skills. He is an exceptional leader in this sphere and I recommend him to you. If you would like to discuss Tom further please do not hesitate to contact me”David CrowManaging DirectorBritish American TobaccoLead change management strategy and activities across multiple projects including a factory wind down, two functional restructures and the implementation of a large ERP (SAP) system. The SAP role had three stages, change advisor (BAT Malaysia), Area Change Lead across multiple countries (Australasia) and Change Advisor (BAT Korea and Japan). All projects were to be delivered within a structured project and change management methodology and reported into a PMO Show less

Werrington

“As the Human Resources Director at the University of Western Sydney I engaged Tom as the Change Manager on a number of large projects including the School of Business as well as the School of Natural Science. He also led the change management activities on 2 large organisational restructures of the Finance and IT Directorates.Tom delivered quality outcomes on all projects. His stakeholder management was exceptional. He engaged with all levels from DVC's and Directors to Heads of School and… Show more “As the Human Resources Director at the University of Western Sydney I engaged Tom as the Change Manager on a number of large projects including the School of Business as well as the School of Natural Science. He also led the change management activities on 2 large organisational restructures of the Finance and IT Directorates.Tom delivered quality outcomes on all projects. His stakeholder management was exceptional. He engaged with all levels from DVC's and Directors to Heads of School and individual Academics. His structured approach to change management and tailored communication enabled all impacted to be engaged at the right time on the right activities.”Helen LyonsFormer Human Resources Director University of Western SydneyDesigned and executed change management and communication activities on four projects, academic reprofiling, restructure of the Finance and IT Directorates and the School of Natural Sciences.Role Responsibilities – • Design and deliver all change management and communication activities. The industrial relations landscape needs to be considered.• Conduct a stakeholder mapping and analysis to ensure all stakeholders are managed appropriately to deliver required project outcomes• Manage the recruitment process for all vacated roles within the universities resourcing procedures• Conduct an impact analysis to ensure that all people, process and system impacts are identified and mitigated Show less

Undertook various consulting and recruiting contracts. Including co authoring a leadership programme for an NZ power company

A range of roles within Australia and overseas. The final role was Area HRD for a large part of Africa (22 countries, 2500 people). This followed senior HR roles in the Middle East and Taiwan. In Australia my main roles were in Organisational Development with a focus on Leadership and Team development and Change Management