We draw on our cross-functional expertise across a variety of industries to measurably improve staff performance, through leadership and systems development.
We have strong capabilities in:
- Organisational & Developmental Change
- Facilitation & Team Building
- Executive Coaching
- Systems Leadership
- Training (on-site and/or online)
Our experience in this sector ranges over 30 years, multiple areas of the mining and processing industries (eg open pit, underground, hard rock, metalliferous, off shore, metals production, refining & down stream manufacturing etc etc). We have successfully undertaken projects in many different countries where our success in large part has been based on an understanding of the local culture as well as the overarching business needs & challenges.
Newmont Boddington Gold
Organisational Review and Learning and Development Training Review.
Work included: Recommendation of new organisational structure for whole of organisation, Full learning and Development review, Full analysis and recommendation of L&D structure – leading to recommendation of new structure, Support for key leaders through leadership coaching.
We have secured engagements in Latin America, South Africa, Mexico and Canada with such companies as:
- Rio Tinto
- Barrick Gold
- Kinross
- Newmont
- Goldcorp
- Imerys Minerals
- Gopher resources (lead recycling)
- Kaiser Aluminium
- Century Al
- Noranda Al
- Arcelor Mittal
- Pioneer
Examples of organisations adopting Systems Leadership include:
- NZAS Smelting
- Antarctic NZ
- Department of Conservation
Other projects have included:
- Organisational redesign of a large open pit operation including restructuring and systems redesign as well as the improvement of leadership, membership and safe work performance.
- Working across 5 years with the leadership of an open pit & underground metals mine to improve leadership and therefore team performance across all dimensions of the operation. This included the establishment of an initial culture during transition from Project to operations.
- Working with the leadership of a metals processing group to reengineer the organisation while it was going through a significant industrial (labour) event including structure, systems redesign, management of symbols and development of plans for an effective return to work.
Phillip Bartlett Managing Director
Our MD, Phillip Bartlett has been undertaking System Leadership Development assignments for Rio Tinto in Australia and the USA since the 1980’s. He works primarily in Australia and the USA, and also in New Zealand, Canada, Europe & South America, with organisations across a range of industries, including:
- Resources (Mining, Processing, Refining)
- Oil and Gas production and refining
Andrew Moore Director
Andrew Moore is a Director of Response Consulting Australia (RCA) and in his role has he has helped organisations develop award winning human resource and organisational effectiveness systems as well as training management and RTO systems, while also delivering high impact (accredited or non-accredited) leadership development programs.
He has conducted reviews of training systems both locally and internationally and has contributed to the development of robust training systems that enhance organisation effectiveness.
Sarah Pearse Consultant
Sarah has experience across numerous industries including mining, agribusiness, health, education, heavy haulage, tourism and hospitality.
Sarah's expertise lie in helping leaders create positive organisations through the delivery of large scale change initiatives, cultural assessments, systems design and strategic interventions.
Sarah has worked with not-for-profit, private and public sectors in a number of countries including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Mexico and Brazil.
