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This page contains a brief selection of clients and the projects that I've done with them during my consulting career. I have not listed all clients or all projects. The idea of the material below is to give you a flavor of the kind of work that I do.

Name of client

Project

WorleyParsons-Petrocon, Saudi Arabia Facilitation of off-site strategic planning and general consultancy for cultural change.
Transfield Worley Woodside Alliance, Perth, Western Australia Development and implementation of internal team leadership training program; selection, training and coaching of internal training team.
RanhillWorleyParsons (Malaysia) Development and implementation of internal team leadership training program; selection, training and coaching of internal training team; development of evaluation system.
ChevronTexaco, Shell and ExxonMobil Joint Venture Partnership (Gorgon POC) See http://www.gorgon.com.au/ Gorgon Gas Field Development Project Project Operating Committee (JVP) -  Facilitation of off-site meetings and provision of general consulting services
NZ Leadership Institute (University of Auckland Business School "Excelerator") Participation in development of leadership training design - regarding "Collective Capacity/Collective Thinking"
Drummond St Relationship Centre Facilitation of staff team effectiveness /reflection process and training in group dynamics
Telstra Customer Services National Transformational Change Facilitation Team Enhancement of team effectiveness and facilitation competencies - multiple workshops.
WorleyParsons (Perth office) Regional Leadership Team - Facilitation of annual strategy meeting.
Leeuwin Sail Training Trust, Western Australia Staff development and culture change - multiple workshops.
Transfield Worley NZ A Cultural Health Check: Executive and senior team leader participative programme.
New Zealand Refining Co Leadership in Action: Leadership Development for executive and team leaders (2 workshops).
Transfield Worley (New Zealand) Developing Effective Business Relationships - multiple workshops over many years.
Bougainville Travel (Kas, South Turkey) Corporate development and organizational 'health check'.
Transfield Worley (New Zealand) Team Leadership Development - multiple workshops over many years.

Worley Engineering (Western Australia)

Multiple projects including:

· Conflict resolution

· Team development and providing coaching for team leaders

· Leadership development.

University of Auckland Management and Employee Relations faculty · Facilitation of task force for implementing new Masters of Organizational Change and Innovation.
The University of Otago Executive MBA Programme Co-facilitation of orientation programme for MBA intake
Project K (NZ) Training of leaders in facilitating experiential learning
Corrections Department (NZ) National workshop of Executive Officers
Carter Holt Harvey: Fibre Logistics (NZ) Team effectiveness development
Corrections Department: Rotorua (NZ) Research on the effectiveness of psychologists'  supervision of Probation Officers for implementing the Criminal Needs Inventory.

Director of Courts, Ministry of Justice, WA

Dealing with a conflicted team in the Division.

Transfield Worley Woodside Alliance
(Engineering Service provider)

· Action based leadership development for team leaders.

· Team Effectiveness workshops

· "Challenge" workshops

· Implementation of organisational change strategy and strategic planning.

The Water Authority of WA and subsequently the Water Corporation

Multiple projects including:

· Developing effective teams and dealing with conflict in the work place

· Training of human resource officers and other internal consultants

Harvest Road (Corporate Internet provider)

Culture change and strategic planning.

Worley, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Transfield Worley, Department of Agriculture, Royal College of GP’s, Public Sector Standards Commission (etc)

Professional role development and coaching of managers (Focused Individual Reflective Learning - FIRL).

The Department of Conservation, New Zealand.

Research and writing on group leadership and building relationships with volunteers. Also provision of training for leaders of experiential conservation programs.

The Royal College of General Practitioners, Family Medicine Program.

Training of College trainers and of professional supervisors for GP’s in clinical practice.

Australian Tax Office

Strategic planning workshop for Child Support Agency Management Team.

Public Sector Standards Commission

Team development and strategic planing for EEO in Public Sector and HR Standards Group.

Department of Productivity and Labour Relations, WA.

Training of internal and external consultants (60 people) Gained by competitive tender.

Agriculture Western Australia

Team development in Floriculture group.

Relationships Australia

Training of group leaders.

Royal Perth Hospital

Training internal consultants from Human Resources, Quality, Risk Management and Training branches.

Woodside Offshore Petroleum New Developments Division (WA)

Enhancing team effectiveness and enhancing communication patterns and protocol.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics People and Organisational Development Branch

Multiple tasks including:

· Design and facilitation of National Divisional Conference (Canberra)

· Training of trainers and internal consultants on consultancy processes and working with organisational culture and change.

· Implementation of performance management system.

· Facilitating an "off-site" workshop for the Extended Management Team.

· Developing and facilitating workshops on mentoring.

Western Power

Multiple tasks including:

· Facilitating strategic planning for Strategic Planning Branch.

· Training of consultants in Human Resources Strategic Services Branch and Employee Services Branch on internal consultancy skills.

Georgia College, Psychology Department (Georgia, USA).

Seminars on group process and supervision of research for Master of Psychology students.

Brathay Hall Trust, Cumbria, (UK).

Training of trainers and consultants in group leadership and managing psychological depth.

Tiglin National Outdoor Leadership School; County Wicklow, (Republic of Ireland).

National Leadership Training Scheme: training of adventure leaders in group process/dynamics.

Fairbridge Trust (London)

Competency development for trainers and consultants.

Adventure Education and Manchester University (UK)

Training in group dynamics for experiential educators.

Löytöretki Ltd. (“journey of exploration”) (Finland)

Member of International Advisory Panel for Action research project on "Developing the work community in a functional way: Cooperation, leadership and coping at work.