Founding Directors and Principals
The Founding Directors of changedrivers are Alan Ward and Malcolm Anderson.
The Principals of changedrivers are: Alan Ward, Malcolm Anderson, Kevin Rowe and Geoff Ward.
Alan Ward - Founding Director & Principal
Following a full-time MBA at the AGSM (Australia's premier Business School) and a number of senior marketing and general management roles with major organisations in the printing and packaging industries Alan set up his first self-employed consulting business.
In his career he progressed from the shop floor where he served an indentured apprenticeship in Manchester U.K. through to factory manager of one of the largest commercial printing companies in Adelaide.
He co-founded changedrivers with Malcolm Anderson in 1998 and has worked with a large number of public and private sector clients in the last twenty years bringing a pragmatic approach to the organisational challenges he has helped them to face.
Principal role and capability in the delivery of:
Designing the future of the organisation |
- Alan has facilitated numerous strategy sessions and workshops with a wide range of senior leadership teams in a both the public and private sectors.
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Developing organisational capabilities |
- Alan has led numerous projects that have reviewed and reengineered organisations. His experience reaches back to the initial implementations of quality management systems in the 60s and 70s through to current day 6Sigma concepts and approaches.
- Alan has worked in the "knowledge space" for more than 30 years and during this time has developed unique that capture "Working-Knowledge" within an organisation.
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Email:alan-ward@changedrivers.com.au |
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Malcolm Anderson - Principal: Organisational Performance
Focusing on organisational performance, Mal works with clients to identify the key changes to build value in quality outcomes, dollar results and people capability. He defines the root causes by reviewing performance, engaging stakeholders and facilitating workshops. He designs the performance pathway and implements it to achieve sustainable improvement.
Principal role and capability in the delivery of:
| Designing the future of the organisation |
- Mal focuses on clarifying what has to be achieved to deliver sustained performance improvement. This may include:
- Reviewing and analysing current performance to discover where the best result can be obtained for the application of change effort.
- Providing strategic insights into opportunities for effective change and improvement.
- Working with key stakeholders to define the operating endstate required and the business benefits that justify it.
- Defining the gap between current status and the desired future.
- Designing the Performance Pathway, prioritising activity to deliver quick wins on the way to sustained performance and business results.
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| Developing Leadership Capabilities |
- Stakeholder engagement and communication is Mal's focus in leadership as without insightful and sustained management of key stakeholders and their needs, all efforts for change and performance improvement come to nothing.
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| Developing organisational capabilities |
- Mal provides guidance and clear thinking in defining how sustained performance improvement can be achieved. This can include:
- Reviewing current performance and designing the Performance Pathway.
- Managing scoping and planning activity to design implementation approaches for new systems & processes, knowledge management and the retention of key people and business benefit.
- Reviewing, designing and guiding organisational change processes.
- Supporting and guiding the implementation team to develop their skills and make the change happen.
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Email:mal-anderson@changedrivers.com.au |
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Kevin Rowe - Principal: Coaching and Change
With experience at senior levels in the Department of Defence and as head of the complaints resolution agency, Kevin has created innovative methods for helping public and private sector organisations lead their people through change. His approach is to support the integration of new behaviours through coaching executives and senior managers.
Principal role and capability in the delivery of:
Designing the future of the organisation |
- Everyone reacts differently to change. Our Resistance to Resilience (R2R™) program recognises the impact of change on organisations and provides training and tools to help align people to future requirements. We conduct workshops and coaching sessions with managers and executives to build the resilience that makes all other initiatives more effective.
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| Developing Leadership Capabilities |
- We have found that high flyers often rise to the top without time to reflect on the special skills required of a strategic leader. We help senior executives identify and grow these skills through a tailored coaching program which focuses on three key career transition points:
- Personal Effectiveness Coaching
- Transformational Coaching
- Executive Coaching
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Developing organisational capabilities |
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With increasing churn driven by greater demands on a reducing workforce, many CEOs lead teams who don't stay together long enough to achieve their potential. Our TCP™ program is designed to move a leadership team quickly towards high performance. We do this by applying a series of tailored, scientifically based interventions comprising an advanced profiling tool (LaunchPad®) and scenario based workshop training, both backed by executive coaching.
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Email:kevin-rowe@changedrivers.com.au |
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Geoff Ward - Principal: Safety Leadership and Change
With 30 years experience as a senior manager in the manufacturing environment he has developed leadership skills based on a practitioner's pragmatism. His approach has repeatedly brought out the best in people by creating alignment around a shared vision. He's done this with vastly different work forces in diverse industries.
Over the last decade Geoff has become passionate about safety leadership. He has learned what managers at all levels of the organisation must do to create sustainable change and improve safety in the workplace. He now applies his skill to enable businesses to change behaviours and prepare for the safety challenges that exist in the workplace right now.
Geoff joined changedrivers in January 2007 and has established and is the leader of the Safety Leadership and Change Practice.
Principal role and capability in the delivery of:
| Designing the future of the organisation |
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| Developing organisational capabilities |
- Geoff works with senior leadership teams to identify safety risk exposure and develops practical solutions to minimise this exposure through behavioural change and systems review.
- He has developed a "500 point" organisation health check questionnaire that identifies the key areas of risk and exposure, displaying the risk matrix in a easy to understand format.
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Email:geoff-ward@changedrivers.com.au |
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