World HR (worldhr.com.au)

CAREER PROFILE:

• Experienced, innovative and passionate HR and Change Management consultant / executive with over 17 years of internal and external HR, OD, L&D and Change Management leadership responsibilities. • Proven track-record of delivering leading-edge people strategies, solutions, growth and transformation across a broad range of major blue-chip organisations and industries. • Have held significant HR roles with Pitcher Partners, National Australia Bank, Coles Myer, CPA Australia, AXA Asia-Pacific, BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting), Telstra Corporation and ‘Catch of the day’ (Australia’s number 1 e-Commerce group).

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

• Rapidly building and growing a new HR consulting entity, providing leading-edge virtual and onsite ‘HR Department’ support to companies across a broad range of industries. Merged the business with a larger national consulting firm. • Delivering 250% workforce growth in the online retail / group buying sector within 6 months through aggressive, targeted talent acquisition campaigns. • Designing and driving transformational people and change initiatives to accelerate talent, leadership and succession capabilities in blue chip organisations ranging from 30,000 to 120,000 employees. • Designing and delivering new talent management blueprint, system, processes and documentation to drive executive succession planning processes, with external talent benchmarking. • Revolutionising HR practices by introducing accelerated development programs, succession frameworks and integrated behavioural competencies for pooled talent in key capability hot-spots across Australia's largest public organisation with over 100,000 employees, for the first time. • Project management and leadership of end-to-end employee engagement and culture programs for some of Australia’s largest blue-chip organisations, including full ownership of organisation-wide engagement surveys. • Being awarded a national innovation award for development and rollout of leading-edge career framework program and supporting tools to complex, multi-channel client group of over 12,000 employees nationally. • Leadership and advocacy for HR's e-Transformation processes in a large financial institution.

KEY SKILLS:

• HR consulting, management and development. • HR strategy formulation, execution and implementation. • Sales-focused management consulting and advice with a key specialisation in Human Resource Management. • Client relationship management, guidance, advice and support. • Hands-on operational HR, Change Management, Talent Management, Succession Planning and Performance Management skills and experience. • Organisational Development, Leadership and Learning • Developing strategies, systems and procedures to complete responsibilities and tasks • Project and stakeholder management including effective communications

FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Graduate Diploma in Industrial and Employee Relations - Monash University (Completed in 2001). Study areas - Industrial and Employee Relations, Bargaining and Dispute Resolution, Strategic Human Resource Management, Equity and Discrimination in the Workplace.

Bachelor of Business (Management) - Monash University (Completed in 1997). Study areas - Human Resource Management, International Management, Employee Relations, Cross-Cultural Communication, Marketing, Accountancy.