| | Rhonda Tranks - CPF Global Board Member, Regional Director Oceania
Rhonda Tranks, CPF is the Director of Illuma Consulting Pty Ltd and in this capacity work in a facilitative way in almost all aspects of her business as a change consultant, process facilitator, executive and team coach and trainer. She conducts formal training and development programs for facilitators as well as her mentoring role with the IAF Regional Facilitator Mentoring program.
Her first foray into working with groups in a “facilitative way” was as an organisational trainer over 30 years ago. From here she moved into broader HR, management and then consulting roles in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Her interest in working with groups and as a facilitator began many years ago and this passion for bringing out the best in individuals and in the group continues to just grow and develop over time. She believes that by getting people to shift perspective and open up to new ways of thinking, great change is possible.
Now settled back in her home city of Melbourne she traveled quite a bit in the past and has worked in USA, Mexico, China and Europe on projects relating to HR, group facilitation, training and education – plus stints in working in food, hospitality and tourism.
Rhonda is also a glutton for punishment as she is convener of the Oceania Conference in Melbourne March 2012. Rhonda is based in Melbourne, Australia. |
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| | Sheryl Smail - CPF - Global Board Member, Director Professional Development
Sheryl is an experienced chief executive, director,
facilitator, and mentor, who established her own business in 2000. Pivotal Professional and Business Services'
focus is ‘Bridging to Action’ and the alignment of vision, strategy,
people and performance - concepts to plans; plans to performance;
disputes to resolution.
Sheryl is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator and a LEADR
accredited mediator. She is well equipped to facilitate in a diversity
of settings; her MBA and breadth of executive management and governance
expertise are complemented by accreditation as an SME Consultant with
the Institute of Accredited Business Consultants (NZ) Inc and provisional accreditation as a director with the Institute of Directors in NZ.
Sheryl has extensive experience in the health sector working
with central government agencies, regional health funders and
providers, and mainstream, as well as Maori, health service
providers. She also has a proven record of providing focused, practical
and highly professional services for a range of other sectors including
tertiary education, Iwi, and a diversity of commercial and NGO clients. Sheryl is based in Gisborne, New Zealand.
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| Dr. Tom Schwarz - IAF CPF and ICA CToPF Assessor A professionl Consulting Facilitator - Tom is an International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Certified
Professional Facilitator (CPF) and Assessor, and also a CToPF (Certified
ToP Faciliator) and Assessor. He seeks to bring about transformation
through a deeply reflective facilative stance (or philosophy) to consulting
engagements. These help people and organisations work with ambiguity
and complexity where there may well be no right answers and where
paradigm shifts are required.
He is able to blend analytic thinking
(courtesy of a PhD in the sciences) with organisational and business
‘smarts‘ (from 25 years as a Corporate executive over Asia Pacific
introducing disruptive innovations) with a profound appreciation of
cultures and the power of inclusive dialogue to bring about
transformation (THE lesson from living and working in Asia for 10
years).
These approaches are typically used to embrace
empowering leadership styles and participatory planning and Change
delivery, to achieve transformation & capacity development, - and
sustainable change that builds individual’s,
communities’ and organization’s agility and responsiveness to meet
changing reality amidst the complexity and turbulence of today and
tomorrow. They are key in building authentic and enduring relationships.
His signature statement says it all. "a
passion for people..... mobilizing the energies and creativity within
organisations & community... breathing life into potential....
achieving sustainable outcomes effectively and efficiently" |
| Dave Rees - IAF CPF Assessor and Process Manager Dave
has been a facilitator for 19 years, 10 of which have been as an
independent consultant. He has facilitated over 500 workshops in the UK,
other European countries, the USA and Canada. His philosophy on
facilitation is that an organisation can solve most of its problems by
using its best asset, its people, given the right framework of a
structured, facilitated environment.
He trained in the USA as a JAD/RAD (Joint/Rapid Application
Development) facilitator in IT but quickly applied the basic principles
to other areas such as business change and transformation programmes,
developing group based approaches covering a range of topics including
requirements gathering, business process redesign, organisational
change, strategy and planning, risk assessments, resolution of issues
and problem solving.
He is a founder member of UK Facilitators, a member of the International Association of Facilitators
(IAF) and is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). He is an
active member of the CPF programme as an assessor and process manager
and has assessed in the USA, Canada, Belgium, Holland, Germany,
Slovenia, Switzerland and the UK. He has developed and delivered his own
facilitation skills training programme and is an accredited DSDM
practitioner. Dave has a post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies
from the University of the West of England.
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Dr. Marie Martin, IAF CPF
Marie Martin is Director of Facilitating Conversations, designing and facilitating conversational processes for people organisations, schools and individuals to have conversations about things that matter to them. Organisational, professional, community and product development are made easier through planned processes which harness the capacity of a group and hold the group through uncertainty to achieve outcomes. Facilitating Conversations is a limited company, under the Australian Company Legislation, based in Perth, Western Australia and totally owned and directed by Dr Marie Martin. Marie is an IAF (International Association of Facilitators) Certified Professional Facilitator, as well as having completed a PhD in the area of Co-facilitation, a Masters degree with a specialisation in early childhood language and development and a Bachelor’s degree in Education. Marie has worked in small organisations and schools, with board, administrators, employees and clients, principals, teachers, assistants, students and families.
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