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Shaneen Meyers

Hendra, Brisbane,QLD

Summary

Multi-talented transformation specialist with deep industry knowledge and experience collaborating and supporting multi-billion dollar projects and organisations to navigate the complexities of change and deliver for customers, stakeholders and communities.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Strategic Transformation Principal

Aurizon
02.2022 - Current
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with key business support teams during major transformation projects to smoothly support business-wide transformation activities during the organisation's rapid growth agenda.
  • Worked closely with project directors, managers and executive sponsors on major projects, providing strategic oversight and advice to maintain scope, budget and delivery of sustained business benefits as planned.
  • Supported governance committee transparent progress reporting across actuals versus forecast variances, and strategic alignment of quantifiable performance metrics.
  • Provision of workshop facilitation to develop stakeholder engagement plans aligned to critical path milestones on major projects.
  • Developed transformation project and engagement methodologies, tools and templates to increase cross-function consistency and efficiencies, and more streamlined strategic alignment across people and business processes, systems and technology.

Senior Strategy and Planning Advisor

Queensland Rail
10.2019 - 10.2020
  • Developed a consistent enterprise strategic plan review process and development timelines.
  • Corporate plans refreshed.
  • Facilitated key stakeholder engagement workshops to identify multi-year future state strategic priorities.
  • Workshop facilitation to develop the enterprise digital strategy.
  • Developed a safety uplift program for safe passenger journeys including research, analysis and reporting of rail passenger safety industry trends to inform operational planning strategies.

Principal Consultant and Founder

Self Employed Consulting Services
11.2015 - 10.2019
  • Supported multi-million dollar savings through strong working partnerships to support, deliver and enable smooth transformation change, leader led value driven cultures, and high performance frameworks.
  • Identified business progress challenges and facilitated proactive resolution, and strategy shifts with leadership teams.
  • Facilitated cascaded strategic to operational accountability frameworks that defined clear roles and responsibilities to streamline work effort and processes to achieve improved high performance output.
  • Developed the generative safety leadership culture and project safety framework to guide the required shift in safety thinking and safety accountability.
  • Developed cascaded operational team plans aligned to safety plans to drive and maintain safe and meaningful work.
  • Executive mediation to develop a Board Joint Venture Agreement between two diverse company executive teams.
  • Created many leader led strategic frameworks, vision and mission statements, and values in action frameworks cascaded to all business levels.

Specialist Contract Relationship Manager

John Holland Group
03.2007 - 11.2015
  • Built and maintained strong contract relationships through expert management and engagement, regularly providing coaching, facilitation, mediation and support on project boards, and to project directors, managers and teams.
  • Facilitated team resilience development during major project phases and changing interface management and delivery expectations.
  • Developed onboarding and performance culture programs.
  • Developed the organisation effectiveness plan to improve and establish trust, and increase satisfaction aligned to the organisation restructure.
  • Developed the organisation improvement program after performing multiple performance appraisals against values, culture, behaviours and emerging leadership capability.
  • Provided mediation for grievance and conflict resolutions.

Education

MBA - Strategy, Leadership & Transformational Change

University of New England
Armidale, NSW

Post Graduate Diploma Program Management -

Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, QLD

Master Coach - Behavioural Dynamics

Institute Of International Coaching
Sydney, NSW

Skills

  • Leadership and team inclusion, role clarity and accountability alignment
  • Networking, relationship and rapport building
  • Logic and capability to align commercial, budget, strategy and execution
  • Unique inquiry style and expertise to identify problem root cause and resolution strategies
  • Excellent facilitation and communication
  • Team dynamics, emerging conflict recognition, people coaching and mediation expertise
  • Subject matter expert in decision-making skills and conflict resolution

Timeline

Strategic Transformation Principal

Aurizon
02.2022 - Current

Senior Strategy and Planning Advisor

Queensland Rail
10.2019 - 10.2020

Principal Consultant and Founder

Self Employed Consulting Services
11.2015 - 10.2019

Specialist Contract Relationship Manager

John Holland Group
03.2007 - 11.2015

MBA - Strategy, Leadership & Transformational Change

University of New England

Post Graduate Diploma Program Management -

Queensland University of Technology

Master Coach - Behavioural Dynamics

Institute Of International Coaching
Shaneen Meyers