Key Capabilities
- Company governance, chairing, directing and leading/advising on the development and performance of boards, executives and teams
- High performance/Productivity – fundamentally improving the performance of businesses and other organizations, in the short and long term
- Effective leadership and performance, particularly the roles of the CEO, chairman, director and people at all levels and teams
- Thinking, strategic and tactical, innovative game-changing ideas, good solutions to challenging issues
- Decision making, including on complex and very large issues
- International business, competitiveness
- Negotiation
- Policy - economic, industry, resources, trade, energy, etc.
- Risk
- Productivity, etc.
Experience
- Chief executive / managing director / senior executive since 1974
- Listed company director since 1991, chairman since 1985; building and managing boards for best performance; best practice governance ‑ the critical stuff you don’t read about!
- Competitive industries, especially international - manufacturing, mining and mineral processing, aluminum, logistics, energy, coal, forests and forest products, engineering and related professional services; banking; venture capital, etc.
- Bank governance, in good and challenging (GFC) times.
- Developing and managing international JVs, in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Canada, USA, South East Asia and Venezuella.
- Strategic analysis, planning and development.
- Decision making, including risk; financial, economic, national interest and sustainability criteria; with large scale and complexity
- Improving organizations and their performance, in the private and public sectors; developing high performance, innovative organizations
- Why organisations fail
- Safety, of people and activities
- Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures
- Major negotiations
- Leading and developing people and teams
- Communications; crisis, critical incident and risk management
- Public policy, domestic and international
- International trade and relations
- Environmental management and threatened species recovery
- The strategic significance of Antarctica for New Zealand and in terms of global politics, systems, sustainability and risk
- Expert witness on governance and other matters, dispute resolution
- Chairing enquiries and processes ‑ eg Savings Working Group, DOC after Cave Creek, Antarctic Science Strategy Review, Centers of Research Excellence 2013/14 funding review, State Sector standards Board, Australia-Japan Coal Dispute, Risk Assessment of Scott Base Rebuild