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Karen Walker
Change Manager + Coach +
Communicator + Facilitator
CAREER PROFILE
Karen Walker is a business professional with 30 years experience, the constant through a diverse career is her
involvement in the implementation of new and innovative practices, and establishment of Greenfield operations, with
experience in managing, leading, coaching and supporting change for individuals and organisations.
With her career starting in human resource and information technology roles, Karen worked as a Trainer and Coach
in the gaming industry, and in Government Regulator, Senior Operational Manager and Acting General Manager /
Director roles in the casino industry (development, coaching and management of customer-facing Team Managers
and Teams). As a consultant Karens areas of experience are Customer Service and Delivery Models, Capability
Development, Workforce Management, Technology enabled Business Change, Supply Chain and Logistics.
AREAS OF SPECIALISATION
Organisational change
Communication / Marketing
Management
Strategy
KEY COMPETENCIES
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Health, Education, Community
Medibank
Order of St John
Youthtown NZ
Deakin University
Crown Institute Auckland
LaTrobe University
Electricity, Gas, Water
EnergyAustralia
Origin Energy
Melbourne Water
Manufacturing
Cadbury Schweppes
Treasury Wine Estates
Aristocrat Technologies
BOP Tauranga Ltd
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Government
Department of Justice
Casino Control Authority
DIIRD
DEPI
Auckland City Council
Department of Defence
ASQA
South Africa Gambling Board
Transport and Storage
Asciano
Australia Post
Air New Zealand
Australian Air Express
Property and Business Services
IBM Australia
Centro Retail
Unisys
BearingPoint
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BNZ
ANZ
CGU Insurance
SuperPartners
AIG
Communication
Casino International
IGWB
Vnet
Cultural, Recreational Services
TAB Victoria
SkyCity Ltd
NZ Community Trust
Hospitality Association of NZ
Mobility
Compliance, regulatory
Capability development
Management Consultant BOP Ltd Tauranga NZ, Leadership & Emotional Intelligence coaching
Senior Tutor, Sales and Marketing, Crown Institute Auckland NZ
Trainer and Coach, TAB Ltd, venue management and customer service delivery (1 year)
Change Manager, HCL Technologies ANZ MS SharePoint & Exchange infrastructure upgrade,
Change Manager, Department of Innovation, Industry & Regional Development, EDRMS
Change Projects Manager, Auckland City Council, Report Tracking
Outsourcing, offshoring
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Brand and key communication message development, including Banker and Customer experience proof
points, for both projects, and stakeholder engagement
Stakeholder engagement
Education Strategies
Achievements and outcomes:
1. Completion of a detailed impact assessment of the Exchange Upgrade, identification of readiness
requirements of impacted groups, and the creation of key communication messages and intranet materials.
2. A primary impacted group for Exchange Upgrade was ~1,500 owners of applications that relay with Exchange.
Facilitated the identification of these stakeholders, associated remediation activities to achieve compliance with
new security and in-country requirements, also compatibility with the new infrastructure.
3. Completion of an analysis of Current versus To Be Operating Environment for ~20,000 existing SharePoint
sites and ~5,000 site collection owners globally, identification of organisational change risks and issues, and
outstanding decisions regarding roles, responsibilities, policies and processes.
4. Development of a survey for current owners of SharePoint sites, to enable ANZ to have an evidence-based,
quantitative and qualitative view of how SharePoint was currently being utilised globally. This enabled ANZ to
make informed decisions regarding future strategies and policies for SharePoint.
5. In the absence of any forum of business users, created and managed a SharePoint Working Group composed
of representatives of key owners of SharePoint sites supporting business critical activities. Resulted in the
identification of the impacts of proposed migration approaches, and provision of business inputs to decisions
regarding governance, policies, procedures, management and configuration of new infrastructure. Quotes, key
business stakeholders, It's been the best experience I've had working with Technology, that's largely
because of Karens efforts .. her positive attitude and willingness to help throughout.
6. Identified the multi-channel communication approach to support the upgrade of SharePoint, involved using
existing intranet channels managed by Technology and creation of an intranet site that was collaborative and
interactive, including blogs and discussion boards. A communication approach that enabled effective interactive
communication with a large, globally dispersed audience that was not resource intensive.
7. Creation of key communication messages and communication supporting the SharePoint upgrade.
8. Completion of a training needs analysis for end users both generic and site owners/administrators.
Change Leadership Coaching
Coach
Facilitation of half day group workshops
Individual change leadership assessments
Leadership coaching plan
Targeted change leadership coaching and skill development
Treasury Wine Estates
Change Manager
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current
2 month contract
Supporting phase 2 of a supply chain transformation program, introducing a 4PL logistics management model with a
joint venture partner, impacting national and international product distribution.
Stakeholder engagement
Technology Cutover and Operations Transition Communication planning and key messaging
Change Readiness assessment
Creation of communication channels and materials
Contract finished due to project budget cuts
Achievements and outcomes:
Communication planning for technology cutover and operations transition adopted for future implementations.
LACCAL Consulting Change Manager & Communications Advisor
(9 mths, 2010 - 2012)
1. Client: Centro Retail Review of Emergency Management Services project
Stakeholder engagement and involvement in solution identification, provision of associated recommendations
Developed client stakeholder engagement and communication plan
2. Client: Department of Justice, Infringement Management and Enforcement Services Project
Project Change Lead, project implementing modernisation, significantly new ways of working for State people, its
third party service provider and agencies, enabled by new core business technology impacting over 1,000 people.
Defined business change impact, readiness and effectiveness measurements aligned to benefits sought
Developed organisational change management strategy including stakeholder engagement, communication,
organisational design and learning, supported by a schedule (plan) of activities
Developed a communication plan and communications
Engaged impacted teams and agencies, in transition planning activities, established and facilitated a cross
organisation / agency leadership forum, also vendor management
Developed and implemented a transition planning at business unit level approach to achieve organizational
design requirements and maintain business continuity
Collaborated on union notification communication and industrial relations management
Changeworks
Melbourne Water Change Manager
(4 mths, 2012)
Supporting the change of service delivery model and contractor workforce, for two projects.
Initial 8-week Engagement and Communication schedule and deliverables, Capital Works
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Program of 5 projects implementing significantly new and different organisational approaches to business
intelligence changing the majority of work practices in reporting and analytics, introducing a new operating
model and impacting over 1,000 people nationally.
Assessed the external and internal drivers, strategic intent and developed a case for change
Described the high-level future state and assessed the nature, the scale, scope, complexity and context of
change, recommending approaches to achieve benefits and organisational value sought
Developed a benefit story board; defined business change to achieve future state
Defined business change impact, readiness and effectiveness measurements aligned to benefits sought
Developed an implementation plan supporting new team, capability and service delivery, including
organizational design considerations
Coaching and mentoring of junior Change Manager, including development of career framework
2. National IT and Retail Service Desk Project People and process change to support moving to an ITIL service
desk environment and an out of the box incident management system, and migration of IT service desk to a new
service provider. Involved the implementation of one point of contact for Posts service desks, changing how Post
incident resolver groups and external resolver groups interacted and communicated, and the customer service
experience of all Post people reporting incidents. Impacted ~30,000 people nationally.
Provision of methodologies, planning of change management and communication activities and resources
Management of all discovery phase change management and communication activities and resources
Provision of communication, change agent and resource, and stakeholder engagement plans.
Execution of communication plan including drafting and delivery of all communication, discovery phase.
Execution of change impact assessment workshops and provision of Change Impact Report.
Planned organisational change management and communication activities and deliverables for 1 year period,
including adaption to agile delivery methodology, and change, communication, training resource requirements
Developed communication and learning development process and governance in consultation with client
Part of response team to a Request for Proposal, online transactional platform replacement and integration
Role made redundant as part of IBM global redundancies
NAB
Change Manager
(12 mths, 2007 - 2008)
1. Implementation of technology and process improvement with significant behavioural, learning and
performance change challenges. Impacted ~4,000 bankers across ~120 banking centres nationally.
Identified banker behavioural and negotiation skills learning needs for increased requirements to pitch for
business aligned with Nabs positioning as a high quality customer service brand within the marketplace
Worked with HR Business Partner on changes to associated bonus and reward packaging
Created and executed change management plan, including communication and training plans
Identified and engaged stakeholders, including visiting business banking centres, engaging business partner
groups to communicate key messages, participation in NAB staff engagement and communication channels
Achieved voluntary user adoption at implementation of new technology which was not a cutover scenario (i.e.
old technology still available), exceeded projections and expectations of senior management
Established an effective national change champion network for nab business banking centres, which was a
first, to support the effective engagement, communication, coaching and management of Bankers in the
application of new behaviours and quality of negotiation skills, and to be used for future change communication
and engagement activities
2. nabCapital Change Manager, implementation of new business change capability; introducing new quality
criteria and responsibilities for executives, senior managers and project resources supporting programs and
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projects, requiring capability development through the customisation of learning and support collateral,
change in current thinking and approaches, impacted approximately 1,000 staff.
Developed and executed implementation and communication plans, including establishment of a SharePoint
site for interactive, two-way communication supporting a new community of practice
Facilitated change impact assessment workshops and developed impact report, identifying changes to roles,
capabilities and performance, communication audience needs
Reviewed and customised existing learning and performance support materials to fit nabCapital context
Identified and engaged stakeholders, providing initial briefings, coaching and support
Designed hyper-care provision pre & post implementation for impacted project managers
Participated in relevant knowledge sharing and communities of practice forums within nab group
CGU Insurance
Change Manager
(9 mths, 2006 - 2007)
1. Account Management Program, transformation aligning the organisation with a new account management
model, customer focus and customer segmentation; significant cultural, behavioural, learning, organisational
design and process changes impacted approximately 400 staff nationally.
Implemented change strategy for design phase, provided detailed change management and communication
stream schedules of activities
Worked with HR business partner on changes to role definitions, banding and remuneration
Identified and implemented Change Agent plan, including engagement and support of Change Champions, a
working group of employees representing impacted teams nationally, to engage and involve in activities to
support the design and implementation of change, including communication planning, messaging and
deliverables
Identified and engaged stakeholders, including half-day workshop for senior management Getting Ready
how excellence in account management translates to behaviour and services
2. IT Transformation program, 7 business process & technology projects, impacted ~ 2000 staff nationally.
Planned program change management and communication stream activities and requisite resources
Executed learning plans including training needs analysis and instructional design briefs
Development and management of project plan, risk register and change strategy.
Management of relationships with senior management, contributors, stakeholders, external consultants and
programme partners.
Change impact assessments, including staff surveys and engagement activities, bums on seats analysis to
identify office space requirements
The Flexible Ways of Working policy and implementation approaches approved by General Manager HR, as
Auckland City Councils #2 priority to implement.
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Awards
Harrahs New Zealand 1997 Chairmans Award Finalist for Excellence in Managing People, a SkyCity Board
nominated award
Harrahs Quest for the Best Manager award, 1996, an employee nominated award
Further Education
Masters underway, business papers completed: Values & Conflicts in Organisations, Management of Change, at
Charles Sturt University
Certificate of Practising Management, New Zealand Institute of Management, 1998
Managerial Excellence Programme, University of Auckland, Executive Programmes, 1998
Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne, degree incomplete; Swedish Language and Literature major
Professional learning
Knowledge, Culture & Change in
Organisations Conference
Words, language & anthropmeaning
Blending Learning at IAG
3 day
4 weeks
2 days
Cambridge University
2008
2007
CGU Insurance
2006
Half day
Knowledge Gym NZ
2005
Half day
2005
half-day
2004
2 day
University of Auckland
2000
Business Planning
1 day
2000
2 day
1997
1 day
1997
Supervisory Skills
1 day
1996
4 day
1994
3 month
VCGA
1994
4 day
VCGA
1994
3 day
1992
Presentation Skills
2 day
Unisys
1990
3 day
1990
2 day
Cadbury Schweppes
1987
Membership
Public Speaking
Facilitator of the Workshop, Evaluating and Measuring the Success of your Change Management Program, 30
January 2013, Change Management for the Public Sector
Chairperson of 1-day workshop on Customer Service for Frontline Staff, and speaker on Service Recovery.
Employers and Manufacturers Association of New Zealand, 2001
Supported the implementation of NABs business change methodology, Projects in the Nab (PiTN)
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Medibank implemented recommended option for increasing organisational change capability required for
achieving transformational change associated with a number of current and planned mergers and acquisitions
Experienced in the use of best practice methodologies including IBM, KPMG, BearingPoint, ADKAR (Prosci),
Prince2 and PMBOK project management methodologies, Agile SDLC approaches, worked as a Scrum Master
ANZ
Changeworks
KPMG
Origin Energy
Granite Consulting
SuperPartners
LACCAL Consulting
Australia Post
2009
2010
IBM Australia
Cadbury
DIIRD
2006 2009
2000 2006
2004
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