Kelly Samson

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Kelly Samson

I’m enthused by interesting challenges, achieving results and working with a diverse range of people.

Kelly is an organisation development specialist with strengths in utilising data to drive business improvement and organisational change. A combined organisation development and research background, along with excellent skills in presentation, facilitation and coaching, allows her to assist clients to cut through complexity, and identify key levers for change. She has shown project leadership on many large consulting transformational projects involving large delivery teams that have demonstrated significant measureable outcomes for her clients.

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For the past 15 years Kelly has worked extensively at senior levels with leading private and public sector clients in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. This includes work across energy, financial services, professional services, resources, hospitality, construction, FMCG, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, federal, state and local government.

Project experience

Strategy development and facilitation

  • strategy and culture realignment with a global engineering consulting business
  • HR strategy for a federal government agency
  • strategy and change management planning for a state government entity.

Change management

  • change management strategy and implementation of structural change for Asia Pacific division in the financial services sector
  • change management and culture alignment in a construction services company in support of acquisition merger activity and ERP system implementation.

Leadership and team development

  • senior leadership development program for 550 managers of a federal government department  
  • senior leadership development program for 70 senior managers in an engineering company
  • font-line leadership development program for 200 managers a food and beverage company.
  • executive team development for the institutional banking team in the financial services sector
  • customer service team development for a leading city council

Culture transformation

  • culture transformation project with a large energy distributor
  • customer service culture transformation for a large city council
  • culture definition, analysis and development planning for a high profile member based organisation.

Employee engagement and talent management

  • employee engagement strategy for a global communications technologies company
  • employee engagement strategy over a five year period with a privately owned hospitality business.  
  • assessment and succession planning for the executive management team of a global business
  • career development program for 4,000 employees of a large energy generator and retailer.

Education / accreditation / board membership

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) candidate in the Faculty of Business, Charles Sturt University  
  • Masters in Business Administration, University of New England
  • Bachelor of Adult Education, University of Technology Sydney
  • Associate Diploma Engineering Survey Drafting, Sydney Technical College
  • Hogan personality tools (HPI) (HDS)(MVPI) Human Synergistics leadership and culture tools, (GSI) (LSI) (L/I) (OEI) (OCI)
  • SHL personality and abilities (OPQ) (MGIB) (MQ)
  • The Birkman Method, Personality, motivation and career interests
  • Member Australian Human Resources Institute.

Past employment

Kelly has 15 years’ external consulting experience with most industry sectors and a further 15 years in corporate HR, quality, and technical engineering roles in the energy and utilities sector.  

Interests

Kelly enjoys team based sports and spending time with her family.