Suncorp Group

At Suncorp we are guided by our purpose – building futures and protecting what matters.

Suncorp has been shortlisted in the 2025 ACMP® inaugural Global Change Excellence Awards as ‘Change Management Organization of the Year Award’ celebrating an organization that has embedded change management practices to achieve lasting results.

Manager Organisational Change (Chapter Lead)

bdna

At bdna, we help our customers transform their organisations to meet the challenges of today and the future.  We exist to improve society.

Delivery Director Consulting

ASG Group

Practice Manager, Advisory Consulting Practice in Queensland - leading the team of business consultants specialising in Project & Program Management, Organisational Change Management and Business Analysis.

Practice Manager Advisory Consulting Qld

ASG and SMS have come together to form the genuine alternative in the IT services landscape. We are committed to helping you keep pace with change and thrive.

In today’s technology-led era, we are now more capable than ever to provide businesses with a complete digital transformation service that is responsive, tailored and relevant.

Senior Practice Leader

Experienced organisational change manager with a reputation for acting with integrity and empathy in dealing with people going through change, while ensuring sustainable changes are made and benefits are realised. Experienced in large-scale, complex environments and being able to make sense of what is needed.

Passionate and driven to support others to develop their resilience and ability to adapt to change, and successful in coaching leaders through different layers of the organisation to develop their own skills to become better Change Leaders in their own teams. 

Broad business acumen from senior leadership and management roles with a demonstrated proficiency at developing strong communications networks and stakeholder and employee engagement strategies.

 Key areas of expertise:
•Organisational Change Management and Change Leadership
•Stakeholder Management and Engagement
•Visual Facilitation
•Change Leadership and Team Leadership
•Human Resource Management
•Organisational Restructure
•Business Management
•Operational Risk Management

Change Management Consultant

Queensland Health

External consultant: Providing change management support for Queensland Health eHealth COVID care for Queenslanders.

External consultant: Providing change management support for Suncorp Banking & Wealth as part of the New Payments Platform (NPP) Program and Introducing fast payments to Suncorp customers.

External consultant: Providing change management support for Suncorp’s People Experience (PX) Learning Team as part of the Learning Optimisation Program.

External consultant: Providing leadership and change management, agile way of working and portfolio planning support in Digital Technology.

SMS Management & Technology

Change Management Consultant - Advisory Practice 

SMS Management & Technology is a leading Asia-Pacific consulting, technology and managed services company. The BPI specialises in Business Analysis, Change Management and Learning & Development capabilities.

Practice Lead

Origin Energy

External consultant: Providing change management, agile and people change readiness support.

External consultant: Providing technology change management and people readiness support for Suncorp’s new Sydney headquarters as part of the Simply Sydney Program Team.

SPARQ Solutions

External consultant: Providing change management and agile support to SPARQ Project Delivery.

External consultant: Providing change management support to Suncorp Technology Partnering in  Claims Technology, Wealth, Digital, Business Intelligence and Chief Data Office & Innovation Labs.

I am an experienced change and operations leader with more than twenty-five years’ experience leading major transformation, change and delivery. 

It’s important that people understand and engage in the process of change and what they do, and I believe that people must come first if change and transformation programs are to succeed. 

I’ve worked in multiple industries across both public and private sectors.  To me where I work is less important than the work that I am doing.  What is most important to me is knowing that I am contributing to making a difference.

I’m comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels and building strategic and collaborative partnerships.  

I am well respected for consistently delivering high-quality solutions without compromising business values. I think this is because I am a pragmatist at heart and always seek mutually beneficial outcomes.  

Here are a few highlights from recent years: 
- Led a technology change program which involved the successful relocation of 2,500 team members to new flagship premises in Sydney. This included Agile delivery of communications planning and activities, stakeholder analysis and engagement, and development of all training materials.  
- Drove the change for deployment of a new social learning platform. Accountable for understanding change impacts, developing the change strategy, and the ‘test and learn’ approach prior to the company-wide launch and rollout to ~13,000 employees. 
- As a business leader, led the deployment of a new organisational design model across Queensland and Western Australia. This was particularly challenging as it had a long timeline over three years, ultimately resulting in the closure of the business.  This program involved eight waves of restructuring, delivery of all communications, redeployment, and retrenchment activities impacting 115 team members. I successfully achieved this, while also maintaining BAU momentum.

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