Business Strategy             Communication             Culture Change

Qualifications

• B. Arts (First Class Hons)

• Graduate Diploma of Education

• Graduate Diploma of Public Sector Management

• Accredited practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

• Accredited Mediator, LEADR Mediation Certificate

• Accredited Mentor

Specialist skills

• Change management; corporate and strategic planning, performance measurement and management, organisational development, strategic people management, equity and diversity, mediation and dispute resolution

Experience

• Extensive experience in the public sector, with a focus on managing change, improving performance and developing commercial orientation.

• Senior Executive and Board level experience in industries as diverse as natural resources, the performing arts, building and construction, business and corporate services.

• Provided successful mentoring services to senior women in a major airline and an international law firm.

• Managed corporate turnaround program for the Sydney Opera House; established shared corporate services centre for a new "super" government department formed from the amalgamation of four separate organisations.

• Designed and established Career Transition Services Centre to assist with the redeployment or outplacement of over 3,000 rail industry employees.

Early background in:

• Tertiary Education as lecturer in the Arts and MBA Courses

• Journalism

• Political staffer - speechwriter and researcher to two Premiers of NSW

Memberships

• Australian Institute of Psychological Type

• Institute of Public Administration Australasia

• Change Management Institute

The Ryder Self Group
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