Anthony
Mitchell

Speaker Profile

Anthony is a a practice area expert in the areas of strategy development, leadership effectiveness and change management. Anthony is also a leading international speaker, writer and advisor on corporate strategy and leadership effectiveness.

Based in Sydney, Anthony works with clients in Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, assisting them to develop strategic direction and put in place the levers to drive successful change. He works for a wide range of clients, from leading corporates to Government agencies.

Anthony's prior experience includes 12 years with the Sheffield Group where he was a Partner and Head of Sheffield’s Australian operations. He holds degrees in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Auckland (where he was Senior Scholar in both the Mathematics and Psychology faculties), and post-graduate Business qualifications from Cornell University, New York.

Recent projects include:

Execution of a total business transformation (incl. strategic review, governance reform, executive structure re-design and change implementation) for an underperforming household-name business in the Asia-Pacific property industry.

Development of the new five-year Strategic Plan (to 2009) for a major Government agency – including the scoping, project management, facilitation, crystallization and formulation of an overall strategic blueprint for execution and cascading through the organization. This led to the subsequent design of an associated Technology for the organisation.

Management of a successful merger of two leading professional services organisations – this spanned the introduction of the two parties, conduct of due diligence, development and sign-off of the merger agreement, creation and implementation of the new entity (incl. strategy and structure), and post-merger integration.

Facilitation of an Asia-Pacific leadership development program for a major global professional services organisation (with over 20,000 employees in over 100 countries), attended by an acceleration pool of ‘rising star’ senior executives from 15 countries from the APAC region and beyond – involving collaboration with the organisation on program design, delivery of expert keynotes and moderation of intensive development activities.

Design and delivery of a leadership development program for Partners in one of Australasia’s premier legal organisations.

Several prominent keynotes on Strategy Development to national and international industry groups (including public sector, legal sector and gaming industry).

Keynote addresses on organizational strategy to SME CEO symposiums in USA, Spain, Portugal and Malaysia.

Ongoing role as ‘Board Coach’ to the governing body of a major Government agency

Travels from New South Wales