Summary

Experience Summary

  • Consultant

    • Portfolio Management

    • Program Management

    • Change Management

    Consulting engagements include, but not limited to:

    • Establish new Government Owned Corporate

    • Post Merger Integration

    • New HR Operating Model 

    • Grants Management Program

    • Social Benefit Bonds Program

    • Child and Family Services Reform

    • Collaboration Improvement Program

    • Data Governance Program

    • Investment & Validation Review

    • Economic Development Program

    • Change Maturity Assessment

    • Gateway Review Assessments 

    Clients

    • Virgin Australia

    • Suncorp 

    • Cardno

    • CleanCo QLD

    • CS Energy

    • Queensland Treasury

    • NSW Treasury 

    • QLD Health

    • Various government departments

  • Enterprise wide senior leader role focused on:

    • Enterprise transformation/change agenda

    • Operating model changes

    • Organisational design and structure

    • Project delivery and embedding

    • Agile and new clever ways of ways

    • Strategic workforce planning 

    Blended role utilising my portfolio, program and change management skills. 

    • Developed and lecturer a post graduate university course in change management.

    • This course formed part of post graduate course in risk management. 

  • Strategic planning, change and project management:

    • Post Merger Integration 

    • Subsidiary Consolidation Program

    • Enterprise Transformation Program

    Clients

    • Suncorp

    • Ergon Energy

    • Queensland Manufacturing Institute 

  • Reporting to the CEO, Karla led the following:

    • Project management of various people lead projects

    • HR and culture related improvements

    • Change management of local government reform

Education

University Level 

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  • Bachelor of Business, Human Resource Management

  • Graduate Certificate in Project Management

  • Graduate Certificate in Organisational Change

​Other Qualifications

  • Graduate Australian Institute Company Directors (GAICD)

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Project Management Institute  

  • Advanced Diploma in Project & Program Management

  • Accredited Change Manager Master, Change Management Institute

  • Managing Successful Programs (MSP) & PRINCE2 Foundation certifications

  • Executive Ready Leadership Program

  • Accredited Gateway Lead Assessor

  • Design Thinking (customer/human-centred design)

  • Hogan Assessment Systems Accredited (psychometric profiling)

Professional Skillset

  • Portfolio management

  • Strategy development

  • Program management

  • Project management

  • Transformation and change

  • Consulting 

  • People and culture

  • Risk management

  • Governance

  • Human centered design

  • Agile - big and little agile

  • Facilitation and training