Christine Axton

Senior Consultant

I love the opportunity to tackle large complex problems, particularly if they involve people, technology and numbers. Nous enables me to use my mathematics, psychology and ICT background in interesting ways to solve real life issues.

Christine’s expertise is organisational capability and ICT best practise. She is particularly effective in senior level situations involving complex people, process and technology issues. Christine has an impressive track record in designing change to organisational structures, systems, prevailing behaviours, work processes and market strategies in response to new policies, environments and market dynamics. She is also an experienced project manager.

Project experience

ICT refresh

project managed and delivered change management services to support the transition of a major ICT refresh across a large commonwealth agency.

Communication platforms

developed e‑Learning platforms across programs that enabled training and communication to rural and remote communities
provided strategic advice to numerous community care organisations on the effective implementation of remotely delivered training modules for case workers in the field
designed connected classroom platform solution architectures for education departments across Australia.

Change management

co-facilitator on the current Bastow Leading Organisational Change program, which is being delivered to principals in the Dandenong-Springvale area. She also co-facilitated delivery of the original Bastow pilot program.
provided strategic advice and defined the change management program and associated implementation roadmap for the treasury and finance department of an Australian state government to improve information management.

Organisation architecture

lead quick turnarounds of poorly performing organisations through integrated refurbishment of culture, organisational structure, systems, work processes, market strategies and customer relationships
conducted an organisational review of the corporate and network service function of a large Commonwealth department, the resulting change management program re-aligned people, processes and systems with departmental level objectives
conducted the organisational architecture re-design of an Australian peak body in the aged and community care sector to strengthen national lobbying efforts in light of recent changes to industry regulation.

People and talent strategy

Conducted a project for the CIO Group (CIOG) of the Australian Defence Force as part of their major reform program to define a five‑year strategic workforce plan.
This included:

detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis of CIOG's labour demand and supply situation
assumptions forecast and detailed scenario analysis giving descriptions of different future scenarios and their likelihood (based on the assumptions forecast)
extensive stakeholder consultation, including high level representatives of the Australian Defence Force development of a workforce model across 2000 plus employees, with quarter by quarter projections over a five year period to provide a gap analysis based on predicted workforce supply
strategic initiatives assessment identifying practical strategies and policies to address identified gaps and surpluses.

Training programs

designed, delivered and evaluated training programs for global Fortune 500 technology companies

Education / accreditation / board membership

Master of Science in Complex Analysis, York University
Bachelor of Science in Pure and Applied Mathematics, University College London
Graduate Diploma in Human Change and Organisational Dynamics, Jansen Newman Institute, Sydney.

Past employment

Christine co-founded the software advisory and consulting practice for Ovum, London. She later relocated to the Melbourne office where she started the organisation’s IT research and consulting practice across Asia-Pacific. Most recently she held the role of consulting director for IDC Australia and New Zealand.

Interests

Christine loves discovering new places, especially if it involves a physical challenge and having unexpected adventures, whilst meeting new friends. Her other passions are listening to music, reading and creative writing.