Andrew Gross

Principal Business Fixes & Turnarounds

Ever thought much about medieval knights? If you haven’t, they generally symbolise loyalty, chivalry, integrity, a willingness to defend or to help another party, courage, courtesy and honour, all wrapped up in the pursuit of a noble cause.

Well, that’s how Andrew operates.

Over the past 15 years Andrew has worked extensively in most aspects of business management and leadership principally as a “medieval knight”. He has designed, delivered and led programs domestically and internationally in leadership development, organisational change management and business improvement.

Andrew also has diverse experience as a process consultant and strategist working “in company” with key executives planning business improvements or dealing with major organisational issues and challenges.

Nowadays, he mainly operates on behalf of international clients as a program facilitator orchestrating leadership development.

Prior to consulting, Andrew spent over 10 years working in management roles in different industries, including manufacturing, retail, banking and financial services, farming, property management and development, tourism and leisure.

Andrew’s academic qualifications include an MBA from the University of Melbourne, Australia; a Graduate Diploma from the Securities Institute of Australia; and from Monash University, Australia - a Graduate Diploma in Counseling Psychology, a Graduate Diploma of Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) and a Bachelor of Science with Honours, majoring in Biochemistry. He also has a Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis from the Australian Academy of Hypnotic Science, and has trained to the level of master practitioner in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).

Andrew has trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt and is also accredited in a whole raft of psychological and psychometric tools such as LSI and GSI, TMP, FIRO-B, Benchmarks, MBTI and Values Journey.

On the personal level, Andrew is a country boy at “heart” and has a very down to earth, engaging style.

Richard Jones

Managing Director Oxford Organisational Consulting Associates

Following his university studies, Richard gained his early work experience in Australia. He undertook postgraduate studies in Education and Clinical Psychology, Group Work and Organisation Development and has worked internationally as a Psychologist in a variety of settings, including schools, universities, hospitals, industry and community organisations. His professional experience has covered areas as diverse as organisation development and change, social research, training, psychotherapy, environmental studies, recruitment and selection, market research, vocational guidance and group work.

In 1970, Richard settled in the UK and took up an appointment as a Senior Social Scientist in the Human Resources Centre of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and as Clinical Psychologist with the Adolescent Department of the Tavistock Clinic. His next appointment was as Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of East London, with responsibility for four working groups: Social and Community Studies; Health Studies; the Centre for Counselling Studies and the Centre for Applied Psychology. He continued as a working associate with Tavistock.

During his international career, he held a number of visiting appointments, including Visiting Lecturer to the Graduate School of the Architecture Association (UK); Visiting Professor in the University of Warsaw, Associate of the Ashridge and Henley Management Colleges in the UK, and a Fellowship in Sri Lanka with the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation.

Richard returned to Australia in 1983 to take up the position of Director Human Resources and Organisation with the Pratt Group of Companies. In this role he was a member of the Group's Board of Management and responsible for corporate strategy, human resources, industrial relations and organisation development.

He was contracted to Monash Mt Eliza Business School for 12 years from 1988 where he designed and directed executive development programs. He established the Leadership Centre at the School in 1991 and as its Director, built it into the pre-eminent centre in the region for leadership development. During this time, he developed a strategic alliance with the Center for Creative Leadership in the United States and successfully introduced a number of their programs into Australia and the Pacific Rim area.

Richard established Oxford Consulting Associates in London in 1980 and subsequently in Australia in 1988 and consults internationally to a number of organisations, working principally with Chief Executives and Senior Management Teams. Individual and organisational change is facilitated through a repertoire of integrated executive development activities. These include design and delivery of executive development programs, coaching of CEO's and senior managers, facilitation of senior management strategy and team development meetings, and leadership assessment and development. He has worked for clients across most sectors in the USA, Europe and Asia and in recent years been carrying out major projects in financial services in Europe and Australia. He has been a Chairman of a Chief Executive Group with The Executive Connection for 10 years.

Larry Marlow

Managing Director Marlow Hampshire Pty Ltd

Larry Marlow is Managing Director of Marlow Hampshire, an Australian management consultancy whose core business is bringing about cultural and behavioural change for its clients at both organisational and senior management levels.

Larry’s professional background includes senior executive roles in the fields of Information Technology, Market Research, Health Services and Management Consulting. He was an Australasian Divisional Manager for the HayGroup responsible for building and leading an international management consultancy team. His professional experience also includes time as an academic at post graduate level in the fields of Leadership and Strategic Human Resource Management and he has carried out major assignments for the World Bank and World Health Organisation in developing countries. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources and a past member of the Council of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific. He has represented Australia internationally through APEC.

He has been involved as a facilitator for a number of peak national Leadership programs including programs for the Australian Vice Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC), the Business and Higher Education Round Table, Leadership Consortium, Australian Government Executive Program and CSIRO’s national Leadership and Succession Planning program.

He has worked extensively at Board, Executive and Senior Management levels as an Executive coach and facilitator. He was appointed by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to assist the national Aboriginal Reconciliation Council in its planning until the Millennium and by the NSW Minister for Health to chair a multi-disciplinary committee charged with changing the professional boundaries between medicine and nursing. He was appointed as the leadership consultant for the major NSW Police Reform project and for the national ANTA Flexible Learning Leader Development project. He is currently managing one of the largest public sector change programs in Australia: a 6 year project to change the leadership culture of Prisons in NSW.

He has also worked with numerous major multinational companies as well as many of Australia’s largest organisations in the areas of strategic management, strategic human resource management, executive development and behavioural change management. He has assisted many of his clients to enhance the strategic contribution of the human resource management function to their business. He has also led a number of significant change management programs and has recently worked extensively in the Higher Education sector assisting over 15 Australian and overseas Universities.

Larry has worked on major assignments in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Fiji, China, Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea and has lectured on leadership at the AGSM, MGSM and Mt Eliza Business School.

Peter McCormick

Director Peter McCormick & Associates

Peter McCormick is the principal of Peter McCormick and Associates and specialises in leadership, team and career development.

Peter has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors. Prior to consulting, Peter held a number of senior human resources positions with international glass manufacturer Pilkington plc, including two years at the Pilkington Group Headquarters in the United Kingdom. During this time, he worked as a management/leadership development consultant with responsibility for the design and delivery of a number of international executive and management development initiatives, particularly targeted at high potential managers.

As well as designing and facilitating intensive one and two-week leadership/management programs, Peter is also experienced with programs focussed on specific areas such as business strategy, marketing, team dynamics and team building, change management and career development. He has worked on the design and delivery of assessment and development centre processes, and has considerable experience in one-to-one coaching and career planning.

Apart from wide experience in leadership/management development, his expertise centres on workplace change, career assessment and development, teambuilding/team effectiveness and facilitation. In the area of change management he has been involved with the introduction of broad organisational change, including the implementation of work teams and the people side of technology and process change.
Peter holds a Master of Business (IR/HRM) degree, together with a Graduate Diploma of Industrial Relations, Diploma of Education and Diploma of General Studies (psychology/sociology). He is experienced in the area of occupational testing and accredited to use tools such as:

• Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Saville & Holdsworth tests, including the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ)
• Motivational questionnaires such as the Work Interests Schedule and Motivational Styles Questionnaire
• Team building tools such as Belbin and the Team Management System (TMS).

Peter is a member of the British Psychological Society (Level B), and alumni of the Williamson Community Leadership Program.

Michelle Morrison

Principal and Director Leadership and Learning

Talented leaders enjoy great opportunity; many do however from time to time experience confusion, disillusionment, burnout, and struggles with work-home balance to name a few. For other leaders their drive is to expedite and broaden their capability quickly and efficiently.
As an educator (B.Ed), registered psychologist and psychotherapist, Michelle specialises in design and delivery of experiences to help people within organisations thrive. Emotional intelligence (reasoning with and about emotion) and its impact on performance and quality of lifestyle is pivotal to these processes.

Michelle is an experienced practitioner working across industries including transport, tertiary education, finance, travel & tourism and resources. Michelle has worked globally in both tactical and strategic capacities, has a long history of program architecture and management, with culturally diverse groups. She is accredited in numerous Leadership Development instruments and tests.

From 2002 Michelle has designed and led delivery of senior leadership programs in Australia, Asia, UK and South Africa for BHP Billiton and Shell. More recently she program Managed a collaborative effort between BHP Billiton and Cranfield University in the UK. She has also designed OD strategies, hi-potential identification and development strategies, designed and led benchmarking activities across organisations globally, and numerous development interventions for a number of other organisations. In 2004 she project led several 360 feedback processes across functions and businesses, sourcing and managing internal and external resources. Michelle also provides development coaching to a small number of senior executives.

In addition to her work for large organisations, Michelle is a member of the New Professionals Group, Australian College of Organisational Psychologists.

Michelle has two children aged 5 and 6 years old and works both independently and collaboratively to run her own consultancy established six years ago.

Mark Spatz

Director
Mark Spatz Pty Ltd

Mark Spatz is a Senior Human Resources Professional who has held a number of Senior HR Positions prior to commencing his own Human Resources Consulting Business. He has earned a Masters Degree and is a member of the College of Organisational Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society.

Mark's work and interests include:

• Leadership Development;
• Coaching;
• The Management of Change;
• Talent Management and;
• Training Managers to Negotiate Better Deals.
  

These interests play a significant role in his individual consulting and coaching activities as well as his relationship as an Associate of Value Enhancement Management, The Leadership Consortium, the Centre for
Organisational Development, Scotwork Negotiating Skills Business and Ki Concepts. Mark is regularly called upon to provide advice and coaching on Talent Management, including Succession Planning, Performance Management and Leadership and Management Development as well and the Management of Change.

His coaching includes working with Managers from Macquarie Bank, ANZ, MAB Corporation, Transurban, Ford Australia, Cities of Yarra and Kingston, Museum Victoria, and The National Gallery of Victoria.

Previous Senior Human Resource and Management Positions that he has held in Australia include:

• Mount Eliza Business School: General Manager Executive Education

• Ansett Australia: General Manager, Executive and Management Development with responsibility for developing and implementing a Succession Planning Process, a Business Curriculum for the development of the top three levels of Management including a framework for Coaching for Success, Performance and Development Review Process, High Potential Graduate Recruitment Programme.

• Telstra Corporation Limited: Senior Consultant, Centre for Leadership, Corporate Quality Office, and the Internal Training Arm. In each area of responsibility he held key roles in major change and leadership development initiatives. In addition, he contributed to and co-edited two publications on Change and Quality Management that were used both within and external to Telstra.