Associates

Tim Mangan, Associate

Tim Mangan is an Associate of Enterprise Innovations with extensive experience contributing to organisational, human resources and business development strategy in industrial and commercial environments.  Tim has a wide range of managerial experience and business skills, including the commercialisation of ideas and research.  Tim’s experience includes:

• Extensive experience as a Business/Commercial Development Manager developing business opportunities for the CSIRO and in assisting the transferring of technology to the private and government sectors.
• Negotiated a series of multi-million dollar research projects which delivered benefits to Australian industry and CSIRO.
• Played a key role in establishing Co-operative Research Centres under the Prime Minister’s Co-operative Research Centre Program.
• Developed and implemented business plans for a range of technologies of commercial value to Australian industry and CSIRO.

Joanne Lambden, Associate

Joanne Lambden & Associates specialise in a range of projects / management areas across Community, Cultural,  Recreation & Environmental  sectors.  With more than 20 years experience covering many aspects of community, recreation and environmental planning services in regional, rural and city settings, Joanne Lambden, Principal of JL&A, is able to offer a multi-disciplinary approach to organisational and project planning.  Their services include:

• Community Planning
• Project Planning
• Project evaluations
• Policy & procedures
• Strategic planning
• Organisational reviews
• Report Research & Presentations
• Master planning
• Management plans
• Scoping studies & reports

Nigel Tanner, Associate

Nigel is a director and partner in BTLi Pty Ltd and is an experienced consultant and trainer of consultants. Nigel is a skilled facilitator with an international reputation. He has worked extensively in the areas of strategic planning, leadership development, culture change, consulting skills development, change leadership, team development and community consultation. BTLI’s projects are an impressive mix of international and national leading private and corporate sector companies:

• World Bank (East Timor on the implementation of their Country Assistance Strategy)
• CSIRO (strategy review and renewal with top 400 managers)
• American Express New York (strategic planning with two new global teams)
• CIBA Vision (Novartis - strategic planning with the Global Business Leadership Team)
• Hewlett Packard across the Asia-Pacific Region
• Medibank Private (strategic planning and ongoing consulting and coaching)

Melissa Davis, Associate

Melissa Davis is Principal of Big Ideas, a first class, Queensland regionally based, full-service marketing agency who will provide marketing and branding ideas. Their relevant project experience includes:

• Tourism Sector - Contracted to Tourism Tamworth for all design work (including website for Tourism Tamworth, website for Tamworth’s iconic Australian Country Music Festival, branding for two major NSW regional tourism routes - the Slim Dusty Way and Fossicker’s Way);
• Natural Resource Management - Strategic marketing, communications and design with Burnett Mary Regional Group for Natural Resource Management Inc;
• Signage strategies – numerous strategies for a variety of commercial clients, as well as a signage strategy for the Wide Bay Burnett Regional Organisation of Councils;
• Currently working closely with Fraser Coast South Burnett Tourism producing everything from collateral to signage of VICs to print ad campaign layouts.

Regional Breakthroughs, Associate

Connie Woodberry has been Chief Executive of Regional Breakthroughs, for the past five years. Following a diverse and satisfying career working across the community, business and education sectors Connie and her business partner established Regional Breakthroughs as a way of helping communities find the solutions they are looking for in workforce development; transport infrastructure planning; future casting and social and economic development through the formation of community led initiatives.

She works closely with all aspects of the community including the local business community, the education sector, federal and state governments, local government and some of the world’s largest and most dynamic businesses. Connie specializes in bringing people together to solve complex and sometimes seemingly intractable challenges.

Mark’s background encompasses business and community development and business start ups as well as Web based business strategies and all aspects of the aviation industry. Mark is the development and management services arm to Regional Breakthroughs and regularly works with industry, local, state and federal governments and urban and regional communities.

Mark has led his own businesses, has advised government, has assisted communities and industries to emerge from the most challenging circumstances and has flown for a major international airline. With experience in Australia and the US Mark brings a wealth of understanding to any challenge.

Bill Cropper, Associate

Bill Cropper is Director and lead Consultant for The Change Forum.  He  has a wealth of experience designing, facilitating and implementing innovative workplace improvement processes on both small and large scale projects, where organisational learning, leadership and change management are the keys to success.  Bill has an impressive track record undertaking strategic change working with senior executives, managers, facilitators and work teams at all levels to help them navigate their way through change.

The Change Forum specialises in designing innovative workplace change and improvement processes, consulting, coaching, facilitation and learning services, namely:

• Strategic Change Management
• Learning-Centred Leadership - The Learning-Centred Leadership© Series is a flexible framework of work-based, action-learning modules to design your own customised leadership learning program to suit particular change challenges, leadership learning needs and different organisation contexts.
• Conversational Capacity-Building: The Conversational Coaching Clinics© and master classes on Difficult Discussions and Persuasive Conversations cater for leaders at any level keen to master the power of more constructive conversations
• Team Development: If you already work in teams, but need to reform or revitalise them, Working Better Together moulds more cohesive teams and builds better relationships – or Leading through Teams – Module 5 in the LCL Series
• Coaching Clinics & Leadership Learning Forums