Janine Ellison · Change Delivery Director

 

Superpowers

  • Extracting the essence of the change from masses of information

  • Well-honed intuition (driven by experience and well-trained ‘guts’) on the right levers to drive the change 

  • Connecting the dots, enabling high-value conversations between the right people

  • Keeping focused on the ‘human’ impact and experience when  designing and delivering the change 

  • Balancing agility and quality

  • Supporting leaders to confidently guide others into the new

What are the main skills I bring to Change as Usual?

Extensive and diverse change delivery experience

  • Experienced change practitioner and leader delivering significant Business Transformation portfolios and programs in major organisations, with change budgets up to $150m. 

  • Change programs across Regulatory, Business Transformation, Culture, M&A, Organisation Redesign, Technology and Operating Models.

  • Building organisational change capability to enable the acceptance of change as an embedded way of working.

  • Integration of change into agile, scaled agile,  waterfall and continuous delivery methodologies.

Change System Design

  • Creation of effective and sustainable change strategies by bringing together cohesive change delivery teams made up of project and business resources.

  • Creation of program operating rhythms, including business engagement and leadership alignment, to effectively execute complex change. 

  • Establishing change practices supported by processes, collateral and skills.

  • Development of an organisation view of change maturity, impact and sequencing and consolidation of initiatives. 

Program set up, remediation and resets

  • Recruitment, onboarding and leadership of resources to deliver change, communications and learning. 

  • Trouble-shooting of change delivery blockers and resistance points

  • Refocusing of activity to get back on track when deadlines and deliverables are not being met

 

My story

I have often reflected on my many years in change as both a personal adventure and a privilege.

For many, change represents loss and is experienced as the fear of the unknown. As a change agent, I am passionate about facilitating a change journey that enables others to feel comfortable and confident about their role in the future state. With this as my anchor, I have successfully designed change programs that offer support, connection, understanding, learning, and leadership.

Every change intervention is an opportunity to build capability in how the organisation delivers, leads and receives change.  This ability and culture of accepting change as business as usual are critical if organisations are going to adapt and grow in an environment of relentless change.

Over the years, I have built a toolkit of tried and tested techniques and interventions that leverage leadership, conversations, participation and ownership.

Most of my work has been in Finance, Insurance, Government and Operational Services with programs and portfolios of change ranging in breadth, complexity and scale of impact.