our associates come in many flavours

Our network of associates is very important to us. They provide us with the capacity to service your needs, whatever they may be, or wherever they are. And even with all of our combined experience and talents, if we can't help you ourselves, usually we will be able to help you find the person who can. Each of our associates is a principal in their own business, and at the forefront of their field.

Elizabeth Born & Peter Crockett

Elizabeth and Peter are the principals of a learning and development consultancy established in 1992 to provide high quality tailored learning and development solutions at both the strategic and operational levels within an organisation. Together they have more than 46 years experience in the areas of learning and development and change management and continue to demonstrate a commitment to addressing clients needs and exceeding their clients´ expectations.

Being a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) means nationally accredited courses are available including Diploma, Certificate IV & III in Business (Frontline Management) and Certificate IV in Assessment & Workplace Training.

Dr. Denis Bourke

Denis has in excess of twenty years of business experience in both the public and private sector, and for much of that time he has held senior manager and executive positions. Working and consulting predominantly in Australia, Denis also has experience in the United States and the Asia Pacific region and has worked in a variety of disciplines, including: energy and the environment; education; government; financial services; and academia.

Denis´ special interest is in the design, management and facilitation of applied learning and development programmes and the use of case studies and scenarios to assist senior managers and executives with their development needs. He also works in the area of organisational development, specifically in relation to organisational efficiency.

Michael Butler

Michael is the principal of his legal practice and has had over 15 years experience in workplace relations, including time as a Senior Employee Relations Consultant with Victoria¹s largest employer organisation, HR Manager for a client and Partner in two law firms. Michael specialises in employment law, industrial relations, performance management, terminations, restructures and redundancies, HR policies and procedures, equal opportunity/discrimination, occupational health and safety, change management, legal audit and risk management. He also chairs seminars, presents on various topics and conducts training for clients tailored to their specific corporate requirements. Michael has a practical, plain English approach to the law, reflecting his hands on experience, and explains issues to clients taking into account both the legal and the HR aspects of the matter.

Michael is a member of the Workplace Relations Section of the Law Institute of Victoria and of AHRI, is the Immediate Past President of the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria and is currently President of the Industrial Relations Society of Australia.

Christopher Eckert

Chris´s expertise is in managing complex organizational change. He tailors his approach to meet the specific business needs of clients and to ensure that the consultancy is focused on practical workable solutions. Chris has extensive experience in merger and acquisition integration, human resources strategy, organization review, and organization culture assessment and change.

Recently Chris has consulted in the areas of organization structures, business strategy, human capital assessment, business management and administrative reviews, organization culture, client surveys, and acquisition integration for clients in the financial services, resources and healthcare sectors.

Annie Farley

Annie is an expert corporate coach and facilitator who specialises in working with individuals, teams and organisations to achieve their outcomes and potential. With specific regard to executive coaching she has conducted well over 4000 hours of one to one corporate coaching. Annie is noted for her enthusiasm, communication style and creative learning solutions.
 

Peter Farley

For well over a decade, Peter has worked with many of Australia's top 100 companies. His reputation for designing and delivering powerful adult learning programmes to agreed standards is outstanding and encompasses the delivery of innovative and results-focused adult learning solutions, accelerated cultural and behavioural change.

Peter ensures his clients achieve the expected results by both understanding, and incorporating, their key business drivers.

Dr. Eric Kiernan

Effective business support requires work in two areas - systems and working relationships. Limitations in systems transmit to working relationships, and limitations in personal interactions adversely affect business operations. Eric uses a variety of approaches to enable people to work together more effectively. Mainstream developmental activities can be supplemented with activities and insights derived from the martial arts, bodywork and Voice Dialogue facilitation.

Previously, Eric was an academic economist, specialising in finance and macroeconomics at the Reserve Bank of Australia and leading Australian universities.

Merrie Palmer

Merrie has over fifteen years experience in facilitation, recruitment, coaching and personal skills development. She also has extensive experience in working within specialist consulting groups recruiting teams of people for companies primarily in the transport and mining industry, both on and off shore. Merrie is the joint developer and presenter of the Successful Selection Programme that trains people in the behavioural interviewing methodology.
 

Miles Rozman

Miles has more than 15 years of significant business experience, management and people development in the hospitality and retail industries on both a domestic and international level. He has a particular interest in putting together innovative ownership and operational structures and specialist financing arrangements.

Having personally established an extremely successful business (global brand) to a size employing over 500 staff and managers, Miles now focuses his energy on delivering the principles of cultural development, leadership, management development and team development that have proven so successful throughout his career involvement with well known International and Australian corporations.
 

Gerald Smith

Gerald is a qualified accountant with more than 20 years experience, gained predominantly in business consulting and from a number of very senior corporate roles in oil & gas, manufacturing and financial services.

Today, Gerald is a Director in his own business consulting practice, specialising in strategy and business development. Gerald has acquired and developed a range of tools, techniques and documents to help small to medium-sized business enterprises.

Robyn Stratton-Berkessel

A dynamic organizational development consultant and coach with 21 years experience in global organizations in the USA and Australia, Robyn is committed to working in partnership with individuals and organizations to align visions, values, and behaviors to achieve mutually agreed outcomes. With her strong leadership capability and a well-balanced mix of theory and practice, she has designed and facilitated processes to integrate change at a deep, transformational level. Robyn holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Systems and is certified in a number of assessment tools to enhance performance at all levels. Robyn's client list includes many of the top international entities as well as the top 10 Australian organisations. She has worked with senior executives, managers and teams on strategy and leadership development crossing functional, cultural, political and geographic boundaries.

Robyn ensures the appropriate human and technological resources create ecological and sustainable results. She has considerable experience in developing processes to facilitate employees' transitions during mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the financial services industry and has facilitated the development of competitive strategies to prepare for deregulation in the telecommunications and energy industries. A gifted linguist and presenter, Robyn reads, writes and speaks German and French.
 

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