Helen is the Consulting Director of
Learning Horizons and a Senior Delivery Partner and Provider for
SAI Global, responsible for the Business Excellence Framework
(Australia). She is a Board Director of Amaroo Care Services Inc.,
a national aged care service company and a member of the Strategic
Planning and Community Engagement Committee for Local Government
Reform Agenda.
Helen is an experienced facilitator
with a passion for improvement, leadership and organizational
excellence. She is well versed in the major issues of
organizational development and improvement and has worked, for the
past eighteen years, with a wide range of organizations, across the
private and public sectors, facilitating strategic solutions. Helen
facilitates community groups, either within the Strategic Planning
process for area planning strategies, or to bring diverse groups
together with agreed outcomes. She has engaged with Chief Executive
Officers across all sectors, working with them on their leadership
roles within the organisation they serve and to assist them in
driving their organisations forward. She also facilitates a regular
Chief Executive Officer Forum, consisting of Chief Executive
Officers and Directors General across all sectors.
Helen has facilitated strategic and
corporate business planning in the private, public and local
sectors and, in particular, has developed a number of state and
regional wide frameworks, Strategic Plans and strategies for the
public sector and Local Government. She has well-developed skills
working with Boards and Councils within their governance models to
ensure and build alignment and clear direction. She specializes in
organizational analysis, assessment and improvement strategies
underpinned by system and process management, using models such as
the Business Excellence Framework (Australia) and the European
Foundation for Quality Management. Helen has conducted assessments
across all levels of government and private industry sectors and,
in particular, focuses on the systems and practices supporting a
Corporate Governance and Improvement model.
Learning Horizons has developed
partnerships with SAI Global, the owner and developer of the
Business Excellence Framework (Australia), with OpX Solutions, the
owner of myDIALS, making metrics actionable, and with Twyfords
Consultants, who focus on leadership and community
consultation.
Learning Horizons contracts specialised
services, on behalf of its, clients when required to ensure the
client's business benefits, with access to best practice
services.