Client: General Council, and Columban Lay Missionary Central Leadership Team, Missionary Society of St Columban The Society looks to have a deep, and deeply thought through, conversation in 2024 about its path into the future, including at the General Assembly set for May 2024. To such ends, the project has propagated many conversations through 2023,…
Category: Client Activities
ThinkEvans is a boutique management consultancy – we do a particular type of work, and make to measure outcomes for each client. So we don’t have a process that we cut and paste a client into, nor do we work by a 10 slide pack that looks not a whole lot different from one client to the next.
That gives clients many benefits in terms of knowing that what we recommend is really for them and not just any organisation that we work with. You’ll see from the variety of clients, and diverse things we have addressed for them, that whatever question your organisation may have, we can find the answer.
And because we are grownups, if that answer would better come from somewhere else, not us, we’ll tell you that too.
A few questions on vocations
Client: General Council, and Columban Lay Missionary Central Leadership Team, Missionary Society of St Columban The project is having some quiet conversations with other congregations about current trends relating to vocations and formation. A modest number of other missionary societies and like institutions are kindly assisting by participating in a questionnaire about such matters. That…
Conversations about choices
Client: General Council, and Columban Lay Missionary Central Leadership Team, Missionary Society of St Columban As the Society looks to have a deep, and deeply thought through, conversations in 2024 about its path into the future, an initial report from the project is being circulated to all Columbans in September 2023. This summary report highlights…
Conversations
Client: General Council, and Columban Lay Missionary Central Leadership Team, Missionary Society of St Columban The Missionary Society of St Columban includes ordained priests and lay missionaries and is currently present in 16 countries around the world. The Society works across boundaries of culture and religion – with poor and exploited people, seeking justice and…
COVID: no longer everything-everywhere-all-the-time
Client:Chief Executive Officer, ACPSEM As the world finds into a new gear that is not (at least not entirely) all-about-COVID-all-of-the-time, staff changes are an important opportunity to take that deep breath and think about some of the gaps that may have emerged in the rough and tumble of just surviving COVID-19. Lending a hand with…
Basics – the gift that keeps on giving
Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd Our confidential logistics project -involving a significant series of detailed functional reviews and the associated labour standards – has motored on to a new series of activities in the first half of 2022. Even as the world is trying to “learn to live with COVID”, keeping a keen eye…
Best of basics
Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd Our confidential logistics project -involving a significant series of detailed functional reviews and the associated labour standards – is now set for the first half of 2021. In a world of such COVID-induced uncertainty, we are delighted to be able to provide strong foundations for this client.
Building on the basics
Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd As the coronavirus continues to richochet around the world, in second and third waves, spot fires, and a scramble for a vaccine, the opportunity to address the fundamentals of better work process for our key logistics client also continues. Taking great care to comply with all government requirements, that…
Back to basics
Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd As we saw in the 2008 GFC, the presence of a global impact on business tends to focus the mind – particularly those of board members and senior executives – on how to deal with the fallout. Then we saw a huge surge in our business as boards tried…
Governance: report delivered
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart The report from this project provides an extensive context for the goverance issues presently faced by the Congregation and its leaders, and then puts forward a substantive body of findings and recommendations for actions needed to revitalise the Congregation’s leadership functions in contemplation…
Governance: report on time for reflection
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart Over the cusp of the time in office of two leadership teams, this project consulted with, and then synthesized findings from, successive leadership teams at the helm of the Congregation. The time was right for reflecting on the changing needs of the Congregation,…
Governance: time for reflection
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart Approaching the end of a 6 year period in office, the present team has seen many, if not most, of the complexities typically experienced in a large and, therefore, unavoidably complicated endeavour – meaning leaders always face consequent challenges for focussing on, and…
Following through
Client:Chief Executive Officer, ACPSEM Following our report to the Board of Directors in late 2018, and their acceptance of all recommendations made, 2019 sees ACPSEM fully engaged on implementation as a major initiative in governance reform. Our present follow through is with the Professional Standards Board within ACPSEM, which is the custodian of professional self-regulation…
Women in Community: sunset or sunrise?
Client: Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, NSW Region This project responded to a felt need for a fresh look at a long-standing initiative of the Sisters, to answer the question of what options there may be for this initiative to continue to serve an evolving community. The project team has now reviewed…
All recommendations adopted
Client:Chief Executive Officer, ACPSEM ThinkEvans has now reported to the ACPSEM Board of Directors on a range of governance initiatives that, if implemented, will steer the organisation towards positive governance outcomes for the entire ACPSEM membership. The report put forward 32 headline recommendations for change, all of which were adopted by the ACPSEM Board. The…
Women in Community
Client: Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, NSW Region MacKillop House, located at Lyneham in the ACT, is a very long-running initiative of the Sisters which is now due for review. The project team from ThinkEvans plans to report to the Regional Leadership Team for NSW in November 2018.
Once more with feeling
Client: Hadrian Logistics Solutions Pty Ltd Harking back to the early career of our Technical Director, Glenn Evans, as an aeronautical engineer in the Royal Australian Air Force, he will be the lead contributor from ThinkEvans in this collaborative work with other former RAAF colleagues at Hadrian Logistics Solutions. The confidential project involves a significant…
Refreshing governance for professional standards
Client:Chief Executive Officer, ACPSEM ACPSEM is a well-established member-based association, operating nationally under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) as a not-for-profit public company limited by guarantee. After a revised Constitution was adopted by the membership in November 2015, the College has followed through to reconsider elements of its governance arrangements in relation to bylaws, standing…
Legislation implemented
Client: Board & Chief Executive Officer, Nature Conservation Trust of NSW A bespoke entity created under a specific piece of NSW legislation, the Nature Conservation Trust was established as an independent statutory body corporate, that also operated as a nonprofit organisation with deductible gift recipient status for tax purposes, pursuing objects in relation to nature conservation on…
Implementing legislation
Client: Board & Chief Executive Officer, Nature Conservation Trust of NSW Our new client is a bespoke entity – a statutory body corporate also operating as a nonprofit organisation with deductible gift recipient status for tax purposes. In a new direction for the organisation’s objects of nature conservation on private land, the organisation is now…
Rethinking pricing
Client: Chief Executive, Coast City Country General Practice Training Ltd In a new project for our client, we will apply microeconomic disciplines to their pricing of services, including sensitivity analysis around key events. Sunset at Mollymook, in the far south of this client’s area of operations, is a great inspiration!
Project wrap up
Client: Board of Directors, Coast City Country General Practice Training Ltd In wrapping up this project the ThinkEvans team put focus on the purposes of the organisation (what are we here to do?) and aligning activities accordingly (how are we going to do it?), to make a strong foundation from which to measure outcomes (how well…
Staff development workshops
Client: Board of Directors, Coast City Country General Practice Training Ltd To voice the project focus on options for adding skills to the team for best effect in sustainability terms, the team worked with the client’s team to consider options from a multidisciplinary perspective. The main session was held in Wollongong, with a follow up session…
Board briefing
Client: Board of Directors, Coast City Country General Practice Training Ltd The briefing dealt with the quantitative analysis of the supply side of this complex market, and the organisational options going forward. With the Board’s endorsement, this will now provide the basis for team briefings in the new year. The south coast of New South Wales,…
Sunset on a project
Client: Board of Directors, Grand Pacific Health Ltd As part of further implementing the merger of two previous Divisions of General Practice, re-think the executive structure and division of responsibilities in the senior team, and assist the Chair to select a preferred candidate for CEO for consideration by the board. The Board endorsed the recommended…
Digesting growth to leverage learning
Client: Board of Directors, Coast City Country General Practice Training Ltd In an environment of growth and success in winning and delivering on contracts, the principal objective of this project is to provide an independent viewpoint and make recommendations on options to evolve team capabilities to support sustainable operations over the long term. The project focus…