Current and recent projects include: Supporting the Department of Primary Industries with commercial project advice on projects including Carbon Capture and Storage, Clean Energy projects (ETIS) and Alcoa agreements with the State of Victoria
Creating and delivering a management and leadership development program for 20 senior managers in the Magistrates Courts in Victoria, including building management and leadership capability and creating local business plans which start to address the 'New Directions' framework Creating and delivering a program to help 20 managers to improve their people management skills at Corrections Victoria Working with the Department of Planning and Community Development to create greater capability and capacity to improve the responsiveness of central services to the increased demands of a new organisation Coaching a new line manager at CSL Facilitating strategic workshops with McCormicks foods for their Asian markets Previous projects include: Working with the Department of Infrastructure (now Department of Transport) to create an internal consulting capability, sell the National Express businesses to Connex and Yarra Trams, and assist in recruiting professional people from the private sector to work in the public sector Working with the Board to create and implement a recovery plan for City College (Brighton and Hove) Assisting Network Training to create management consultancy capability, now part of the Tribal Group Working with Somerset College of Arts and Technology to introduce an empowered management team, reengineered processes, a recovery plan, and the formulation of a new build using a Public Private Partnership (PPP) Introducing Principals in Norway to student centred learning Introduction and piloting of a reengineered process for worldwide delivery of spare parts for Kulicke and Soffa VPSCIN (Victorian Public Sector, Continuous Improvement Network)
Leadership Overview Session through VPSCIN (Held on: 15 August 2008)
In “Fast Track Leadership” taster session at Airlie, a number of people from across the public sector got together to share insights and learn a bit about leadership development, using self-managed learning syndicates. Andrew Fenlon, formerly of the Dept of Infrastructure and currently with Primary Industries shared a unique and practical approach to the building of leadership skills. Activities during the session included participants brainstorming a roadmap for “Great Leadership in the VPS”, the resulting behaviours and characteristics that emerged were: 
Lively discussion took place around topics including: What is meant by self-managed learning and learning syndicates? Is learning focused on the organisation or the individual, or both? What is the best way to learn about particular topics?
The group spent the last half hour of the session in two distinct learning syndicates, the first around “Reflection” and the second on “Story-telling”. Participants in each shared their knowledge and benefitted from the collective experiences of the group and the supportive “learning syndicate” environment which allowed them to walk away a bit wiser from the brief experience. Andrew also referred to Appreciative Inquiry as a powerful organisational development tool and one that fits nicely with the learning syndicate model. Used with permission from VPSCIN. For full details, visit the VPSCIN web site.
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