Transformation Experience

Adam Salzer

Adam is one of the world’s most experienced professional drivers of fundamental transformation through companies employing large workforces (1,000 to 200,000 staff). He has been transforming large complex organisations since the early 1990’s. Initially focused on Asia-Pacific he has expanded globally and was awarded the prestigious ATTA Asia Transformation/Turnaround of the Year for 6 consecutive years. 

Robert Bruce

Robert is an innovative and agile Global business leader and a lean transformation specialist with extensive experience in a number of industries including consumer goods retail, technology, supply chain, manufacturing, aerospace and automotive.

Robert is passionate about creating a frictionless customer experience from the digital through to the physical and building high-performance cultures. Robert headed up the digital/physical entry of Amazon and Vistaprint (Cimpress) into Australia. 

Bernard Leung

Bernard is a seasoned business, digital, and data transformation expert with over 20 years of experience in helping companies adapt their operating models and customer engagement to increase profitability, decrease cost, reduce risk and increase market share.

Digital operating models, Data and Technology are fundamentally changing the way business is done, and whilst most CEO's are aware of this, they struggle to understand how to adapt their business.  Bernard assists in providing this guidance and transformation expertise.

Michelle Guthrie

Michelle has extensive experience in media, entertainment, funds management, technology and professional services spanning more than 30 years, in both executive and non-executive roles. Michelle was Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) between 2016 and 2018. Prior to that, she held senior management roles at leading media and technology companies in Asia, the UK and Australia, including Google, Star TV, BSkyB and Foxtel. Michelle spent several years as an equity adviser and investor for Providence Equity covering Asia Pacific, before moving to Singapore for a senior role as Managing Director, Partner Business Solutions, APAC, at Google. Michelle is currently a non-executive director of StarHub Limited, Catapult Group International Limited and BNK Banking Corporation Ltd and Chair of Mighty Kingdom Limited.

Ian Riley

Ian is a senior executive with considerable experience in building materials, industrial minerals and construction. He has led successful transformations in China, Australia and the US, including large scale post-merger integration, business turnaround and implementation of new business models. Ian brings together stakeholders from very different cultures and backgrounds to deliver excellent results at speed. He has a strong background in strategy development, operations management and deploying technology to realise opportunities. His practical and inclusive approach to business has consistently delivered strong results.

Anouk de Blieck

Over the past 30 years, Anouk has been a senior leader and advisor to organizations in the Tech-nology, Payments and Banking sectors, including organizations such as Citibank, ANZ, Visa and SoftServe. She began her leadership career in Sales, Operations & Project Management, before moving to regional and global HR leadership positions in emerging and mature markets across EMEA, Asia, Northern America and Oceania. In these roles, Anouk managed geographically dispersed teams of up to 600 people, supporting up to 20K employees, and developed the strategy and implementation of a number of large-scale Human Capital interventions which focused on value creation and transformation. Anouk is now a Non-Executive Director, Strategic Advisor and Mentor that is passionate about rad-ical change management in a digital first world, progressing women in business and giving back to the global HR and Business community.

Jess Tayel

Jess is a global business transformation and change senior leader who has helped organizations across 11 countries in 5 continents, across various cultures, in dozen different industries become fit for the future. Jess is an expert in customer centricity, culture, building high performing teams, coaching, mentoring, operational efficiency, strategy execution, change adoption and technology enablement. Jess is all about enabling transformations in organizations by unlocking it for the rest of the organization so that it is people-powered, deep, adopted and truly moves the organization forward realizing its true outcomes, its return on investment and build true capability. Jess has recently earned her doctorate DBA in business transformation and change adoption from the USA

Friska Wirya

Friska Wirya has led change efforts impacting 20,000 – 40,000 people across multiple continents for the biggest names in mining, engineering and technology. Over the years, she’s helped organisations to thrive through disruptive refocusing such as digital transformations, M&As and operating model redesigns. Friska's track record of effectively managing the people-side of change has proven to be a compelling cost mitigation strategy for major industrial corporations in the ASX 200 and Fortune 500.

Niël Malan

Niël Malan is a senior transformational executive with more than 20 years’ experience in the food & beverage, manufacturing and energy industries across multiple business verticals and value chains. He consistently advocates change for growth, new technology ecosystems and sustainability. Niël has delivered several highly successful global digital transformations at the executive level in the beverage industry. He also brings strategic operational and leadership experience in the energy sector. A solid track record of leading successful supply chain transformations. He firmly believes that technology makes things possible, but people make them happen. He is also a founder of a successful packaging manufacturing company.

Luis Faria e Maia

Luis is a senior executive with more than two decades of FMCG and Agrifoods experience. Combining a truly global footprint with a proven track record of successful and profitable transformations in complex, multi-country, multi-cultural environments Luis brings valuable industry knowledge as well as passion to the group.

He has a strong background in client-side marketing and brand development as well as exceptional leadership skills. His innovative and passionate approach to internal change has delivered consistent provable results. 

Maria Wu

Maria Wu is one of China’s most respected hands-on transformational consultants. Based in Beijing she is an economist by education, Maria has proven experience in successfully managing complex corporate transformation projects across Asia including efficiency improvement, post-deal integration to restructure of the non-performing business.

Seamus Power

Seamus is an internationally experienced enterprise transformation leader with deep expertise in Strategy Development, Design Thinking and Lean Six Sigma.

He has successfully led over 25 country/enterprise-wide transformations in Europe, Australia/NZ, and across Asia as a CEO,

Operations Leader and Transformation Director. His career to date has spanned several different industry sectors including manufacturing, energy utilities, electronics, consumer goods, automotive, design & engineering services, and mining equipment.

Salman Bokhari

Salman Bokhari has over 40 years of successful international business and management experience with an extensive background in Asia, Middle East & Europe. He has an established record of delivering competitive advantage and market share gains for internationally-driven companies in startup, turnaround, and growth environments. Known for formulating lean operations and executing market-winning strategies, Salman is an entrepreneurial leader who drives above-average growth and profitability by repositioning businesses, establishing strategic alliances and licensing agreements, building high performance teams, and reorganizing distribution channels.

Alain Crozier

Alain is a senior executive with 3 decades of global Technology Industry experience. Combining a truly global footprint with a proven track record of successful and profitable transformations in complex, multi-country, multi-cultural environments across EMEA, US and Asia. He has led major transformations in Sales, Marketing, Services and Operations at Microsoft, driving above average and sustainable growth, and profitability. Alain is known for formulating market-winning strategies in emerging and developed environments by reinvention of existing business and operating models, developing new businesses, developing high value partner ecosystems, establishing strategic alliances, and building high performance teams. Prior to consulting, Alain worked at Microsoft where he was Chairman & CEO of the Greater China region, before that, President of Microsoft France, CFO of WW sales, Marketing and Services and CFO of the French subsidiary. Prior to Microsoft, he led the turnaround of French consumer goods Groupe Lesieur and before that was senior consultant at Peat Marwick Consultants.  

Bjørn Vik

Bjørn is an innovative and forward-thinking leader with a wide experience in building teams to execute in highly competitive markets. Extensive public and private sector experience where complexity of task has been the red thread. Bjørn has the advantage of understanding both the technical and commercial side of the digital changes that have been part of major changes to most industries over the past 25 years. Prior to consulting and advisory, Bjørn was active as a leader in different positions where change and critical services has been key and currently he is active as a founder, co-founder and board member to a number of companies. Over 30 years of experience with people and technology has given Bjørn a unique insight into the important balance of digital trends and people.  

Zhiyong Zhou

Zhiyong Zhou is a highly experienced skilled international executive with more than thirty years’ experience in cross-country/culture environments. He is well versed in cross border market entry strategy, JV partnership development and investment. He has considerable knowledge and experience of dealing with complex, multi-country/multi-site projects. Mr Zhou brings a strong growth-minded approach to transformations. He has senior leadership experience across a range of high-profile industries including telecommunications, finance and waste recycling. Throughout his career, Mr Zhou has demonstrated an unwavering dedication to developing and mentoring high performance teams.  

Paul Jarah

Paul is an accomplished strategist, consultant, and transformational leader with a career spanning the UK, Poland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada and Singapore as well as Australia. He has delivered results across multiple sectors including financial services, technology, government, energy, outsourcing and “network businesses” (such as aviation, utilities, telcos). Paul enjoys working with clients to develop new operating models, stimulating rapid growth, and developing the next generation of leaders.