Consultants
John Y. L. Chan
John Chan, Associate Consultant of Diversity Consulting in Asia, has over 37 years working experience in various leadership positions in Human Resources, Marketing, Manufacturing, Planning and Finance in Shell Companies in Singapore.
He was the HR Director in Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd. in Singapore for 5 years, (one of the largest multinational companies in Singapore with investments of US $5 billion in refinery and chemical plants and a staff population of over 2000).
He concurrently held the position of Transformation and Change Manager, Shell Oil Products East and in this capacity worked with both regional and local leadership teams to implement transformation and change programmes in various countries in Asia Pacific. As the country HR lead, John was responsible for driving and implementing Shell's Diversity and Inclusiveness initiative in all operations in Singapore
Besides having held various leadership appointments in diverse business functions in Shell (including Retail Marketing Manager, Commercial Marketing Manager, Regional Manager, Business Consulting and Solutions) during his career, he also worked for 3 years at Shell headquarters in London as Strategic Change Consultant and Strategy Advisor, Business Consultancy and Solutions, of Shell Services International.
John is well-known in Singapore for his HR and Change expertise, his achievements in building a strong partnership and employee relations operating model with the Shell Employees Union and growing the Union's Co-operative business to over 3 times since taking over as its President since March 2000. His contributions and achievement was recognized in May Day 2006 by being the awarded the prestigious "Friend of Labour" award by the Singapore National Trade Union Congress. John was also appointed recently as Co- Chairman of Manpower Skills Development Council by the Work Development Agency, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore to develop and implement the national competency standards for the HR profession in Singapore.
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Prof. John Hudson
John Hudson, Associate Consultant of Diversity Consulting in South America, fluent in both English and Spanish, specializes in international business, marketing and diversity training. He was born in Buenos Aires, where he is currently based, and spent his youth in Argentina, England, the United States and Mexico.
John holds a Bachelor´s degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Duke University. In addition, he has received extensive professional training at Accenture´s Center for Professional Education in the US and Ashridge Management College in the UK.
John began his professional career as a consultant at Accenture, working in Argentina, Central America and the Philippines for clients in the chemical, metallurgical, tobacco, banking and beverage industries.
He subsequently worked as a Systems Manager with Philip Morris Asia based in Hong Kong and working throughout the Far East, primarily in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand. John has also worked in marketing management at GlaxoSmithKline, Procter & Gamble and Roche, specializing in the introduction of global brands into Latin America.
John is Director of the marketing program at the School of Economics at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE), managing the undergraduate degree programs for over 2,000 students. He is also a professor of International Business and Marketing at the EDDE business school and was previously Director of the Universidad de Palermo´s Graduate School of Business.
John has participated as a business resource consultant for international programs covering marketing, diversity and intercultural management for General Motors, Toyota, J.P. Morgan, American Express, Danone, BHP Billiton and Monsanto.
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Dr Helen Turnbull
Dr Helen Turnbull, Associate Consultant of Diversity Consulting in the US, has 30 years of experience assisting businesses in enhancing organisational capabilities. As a practiced Organisational Development consultant, Dr Turnbull assists clients in developing a full range of organisational development consulting services including diversity and multicultural change management; strategic planning; training; leadership development; executive coaching; team building; performance management; communication systems; and merging of organisational cultures. She also has an in depth knowledge of working with women and her dissertation research was on the internalised oppression of women across cultures.
Dr Turnbull's Blue Chip clients include Texas Instruments, Raytheon, JP Morgan Chase, Motorola, Hewlett Packard, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, IBM, American Express, Citigroup Europe, among others. Dr Turnbull made major contributions in assisting Texas Instruments to win the Catalyst Award and the Malcolm Baldridge Award and was instrumental in helping both JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup Europe win the prestigious Opportunity Now Award and Business in the Community Awards in 2001 and 2002.
In addition to her doctorate in Human and Organisational Systems, Helen has two Masters Degrees; one in Industrial Psychology and Mental Health Counseling and a second in Human and Organisational systems.
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Dana Eisenstein
Dana, Associate Consultant of Diversity Consulting in Victoria, Australia, is passionate about using difference to create dynamic results. Born and reared in South Africa, Dana has cultivated an intense commitment to establishing inclusivity and equity in the workplace and society. She has built a solid reputation in Australia helping clients reach their full potential and draws on her deep insight into human performance and development, stemming from strong academic qualifications and 13 years of hands-on experience in Human Resource Management and training roles in Australia and South Africa.
Dana provides a professional consulting, training and support role to clients in both the public and private sectors on the wide range of diversity products and services introduced to the Australian workplace by Diversity Consulting namely, the Diversity Game, the Diversity Capability Assessment tool, Diversity Audits and Diversity workshops.
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Liz Malcolm
Liz, Diversity Consulting's Client Liaison & Communications Manager, has been a member of the Diversity Consulting team since September 2006.
After completing her tertiary studies at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, Liz went on to gain a wealth of experience in the areas of Marketing and Communications after her relocation to Sydney in 1999. Her role as Marketing Manager Asia Pacific with an international Training & Development organisation offered her the opportunity to develop and implement strategic initiatives before eventually starting her own business in 2004.
Responding to numerous requests for independent business support, Liz began consulting full-time, providing internal and external communications solutions to a wide range of clients from the Royal Australian Air Force to leading Advertising Agencies. It was during this time as a Communications Specialist that Liz was introduced to Diversity Consulting and, keen to contribute to the building of equity in workplace environments, has now joined the team full-time.
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Nene Molefi
Nene Molefi, Associate Consultant of Diversity Consulting in Africa is recognised as a leading expert in Diversity in Southern Africa.
Her competencies are around developing broad transformation strategies aligned with South African legislation international best practice and the business imperative of Managing Diversity, all under the broader ambit of Change Management and Transformation. She has worked closely with the Private Sector, Multinationals, Parastatals, National and Local Government and Regulatory Bodies.
As CEO of Mandate Molefi, Nene has travelled extensively throughout the world; benchmarking South Africa's Change Management Strategies with those of other countries and has been invited as a speaker at the IPM Convention South Africa, IPM Convention Zimbabwe, USA Diversity Exchange and in Vicenza Italy.
She is on the Boards of several companies as a Non Executive Director, including Hudaco Industries Ltd, Brockhouse Coopers, Royal Africa Gateway, Innovent, Royal Africa Investment Holdings, Pangbourne Properties Ltd, Office of the Auditor General and Community Aids Response (CARE).
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Joshua Price
Joshua joined the Diversity Consulting team in April 2007 as a Business Development consultant. With degrees in Commerce and Science, he brings strategic, marketing and IT skills to develop and support the service offerings of the company.
Joshua's exceptional understanding of IT applications to learning and communications has contributed to positioning Diversity Consulting as a leading provider of cutting edge diversity and discrimination solutions.
By building strategic partnerships, implementing and managing related projects, and formulating innovative methods for distance marketing, Joshua is playing a key role in consolidating Diversity Consulting's position in global markets.
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Suzanne Radford
As an Associate Consultant of Diversity Consulting in Sydney, Australia, Suzanne brings to the team a wealth of experience in HR strategy and management.
Educated in South Africa, she graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a Bachelors Degree in Industrial Relations and a Post Graduate Degree in Human Resources.
With some 20 years experience in a broad range of HR roles, largely in Australia, she has consulted to high profile blue chip organisations, the public sector as well as smaller organisations.
In pursuit of performance excellence, she has developed specialist expertise in organisation change, a critical element of which is embedding an inclusive culture in the workplace. Her focus is on working with organisations and driving success through the strength and commitment of all diverse employees as well as through the alignment of organisational and individual objectives.
Suzanne brings dedication and passion to her consulting, training, support and research role with clients of Diversity Consulting.
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Gretta Rusanow
Gretta Rusanow is a management consultant, lawyer, university lecturer, and author of "Knowledge Management and the Smarter Lawyer" (ALM Publishing 2003). Gretta has over 18 years experience advising leading public companies and professional services organisations around the world on a broad range of strategy and implementation initiatives, with specific expertise in the management and operation of the corporate legal function.
In addition to her consulting work, Gretta lectures at both The University of New South Wales and The University of Melbourne, where she teaches "Managing Knowledge in Legal Services" as part of their post-graduate programs. Gretta holds a BA LLB from the University of New South Wales.
She brings excellent training and research consulting skills on diversity and discrimination to the Diversity Consulting team.
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David Walsh
David, Associate Consultant of Diversity Consulting in Ireland, has wide ranging expertise and competencies in the area of diversity management. He has conducted research on the issue of policing and interculturalism in the Irish context and has worked/lectured in both Ireland and Europe on diversity issues. He is a former board member of SIETAR Europa (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research), a member of the Sociological Association of Ireland as well as the Institute of Business Advisors. He is the author of Policing Pluralism (in Cultivating Pluralism, Oak tree Press, 2000) as well as a range of research reports on cultural diversity in Ireland. He recently acted as a researcher on the EU funded, ten nation European Intercultural Workplace Project which was undertaken in Ireland at Dublin City University. David is a licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming and is trained in the use of Appreciative Enquiry as a research methodology in managing differences. He is also licensed to facilitate the Organisation Workshop and Merging Cultures Programmes by the Power and Systems group, Boston, USA.
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Marlene Zaidel
Marlene, Associate Consultant of Diversity Consulting in Sydney, Australia, is an industrial psychologist, has extensive experience in consulting and training in diversity and equity, having worked for Mandate Molefi, Heather Price's Diversity Consulting business in South Africa 5 years prior to relocating to Australia and then joining the Diversity Consulting team in Sydney.
She has conducted workshops on managing diversity in a wide range of private and public sector organisations from senior management to worker level, dealing with racial, gender, multicultural, ethnic and disability issues; has participated in conducting diversity audits for numerous organisations (i.e. customised and administered questionnaires, conducted focus groups, analysed results and compiled reports with strategic recommendations on diversity strategy), has analysed and compiled many Diversity Capability Assessment Tool reports, has trained and licensed many facilitators in the use of the Diversity Game and has served as a key team member and facilitator in many large scale culture change projects in the corporate world.
Marlene's sharply honed facilitation, process, coaching, analytical, diagnostic and writing skills makes an important contribution to the Diversity Consulting team.
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