Rhonda Tranks, Director and Principal, Illuma Consulting

Rhonda is one of Australia's most experienced facilitators and organisational trainers. She has long recognised that, by getting people to shift perspective and open up to new ways of thinking, great change is possible.

"My approach is to shed light on new possibilities and pathways, drawing people towards their own realisations, encouraging them to explore better options and to use their knowledge in new contexts.

"Over many years, I've observed that an enormous amount of productivity, energy and emotions goes into professional relationships. If these relationships aren't working, they simply obstruct the business process.

"My skills as a facilitator and trainer begin with understanding how and where to work with a group or individual, which tools to use, how to draw out connections between information, and how different people make sense of this. Often it's about helping them find the light for themselves."

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Heather Stallmach, Administration and Project Support

Heather looks after our administration and co-ordinates projects. She has a background in project & team management with experience in training and coaching development, coordination and delivery.  Her extensive project experience ranges from working as a project team member, project and program manager, to delivering project management training and coaching. She has a passion for continuous improvement and is always looking for ways to improve business processes, services & communication with clients to achieve better outcomes.

Her attention to detail and organisational skills ensure her teams and customers know what needs to happen and when, and her calm and unflappable nature means that if things do go wrong, they are fixed with the minimum of fuss.

Our Associates and Connections

Through our alliances and our connections with bodies such as: the International Association of Facilitators; the Australasian Facilitator's Network; the International Coaching Federation; consultant groups and other forums we have a broad and diverse network of local and international associates to call upon for larger projects. Some of our key relationships are:

Atat Li-Kim-Mui, Sydney

Dr Atat Li Kim Mui is the Managing Director and a Founding Partner of ARPOS a Sydney-based boutique management consulting firm that focuses on: the development and implementation of strategy and organisational effectiveness improvement including process redesign, cost reduction, operations improvement, supply chain optimisation and change management. Their consultants have worked in the public and private sectors across Australia, NZ and Asia in a range of industries including healthcare, financial services, aviation, transport and logistics, telecommunications and utilities.

Atat has twenty years of corporate experience developing and implementing corporate plans for medium to large companies, both as consultant and senior executive. He is passionate about turning strategy into action and delivering substantial improvements in operations. Atat has deep experience in change management and works closely with corporate leadership to effect change. He has a flexible work style that combines the rigorous with the practical to achieve tangible demonstrable outcomes for his clients. Atat trained as a structural engineer and received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has a MBA from the University of Sydney.

Chris Kane, Brisbane

Chris is an experienced consultant, business leader and corporate services manager who has worked in Australia and the UK across commercial and government sectors. Kane Enable, her Brisbane-based business specialises in business efficiency through improved people and system performance, enhanced work practices, organisational and program review and management coaching.

Chris is very experienced in the review of structures, systems and policy, where she utilises her extensive strategic and workforce planning skills coupled with her financial and commercial background. She has a proven record of quickly identifying the issues and challenges, and resolving them in pragmatic and effective ways.

Her experience spans a broad range of financial, commercial and human resource consultancy and corporate services delivery. Her business qualifications, including an MBA, complement her workplace experience.

Sheryl Smail, New Zealand

Sheryl is an experienced chief executive, director, mentor and facilitator, 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 well equipped to work with Pivotal's diverse client base; 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. She is also an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator and a LEADR accredited mediator.

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.

David Gunzburg, Melbourne

David's key areas of expertise are HR Strategy, Organisation Development, Change Management, Industrial Relations and Group Facilitation. His work assignments have seen him based in both Australia and South East Asia and has had significant exposure to operations elsewhere around the world. He has extensive experience in the Mining, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Engineering and Health Services industries.

David's approach to Human Resources issues is based on the need to align the behaviours and skills of employees at all levels of the business with the Organisation's business strategy. This is done by focusing on practical outcomes and the intensive engagement of the employees themselves.

Suzanne Walshe, Melbourne

Suzanne Walshe is a qualified coach, career strategist and facilitator with more than 20 years experience in public and private sector organisations. Suzanne’s career includes management roles in Local Government, HR strategic planning in the State Government, service review and development, coaching and teambuilding, career development and transition, mentoring and leadership programs.

She brings to her coaching and facilitation a depth of understanding and empathy gained through her varied background and experience in organisations in which there are constantly changing demands, multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

Suzanne has a flexible and intuitive approach and draws on a range of coaching and career management tools, resources and processes to assist individuals and teams to be more engaged and effective in their work and have more satisfying and rewarding careers.

Suzanne is an Associate with Illuma Consulting. She is an active member of the International Coach Federation and the Career Development Association of Australia.

Paul O'Brien, Sydney

Paul has a strong background in leadership and management roles with more than 20 years experience in the public safety industry as a commissioned police officer in State and Federal policing.

Paul has complemented this practical leadership and management experience with a number of years as a corporate facilitator, coach and program designer for numerous public, private and not-for-profit sector organisations both domestically and internationally.

Paul also has extensive international experience in the area of community capacity building in countries that include Indonesia, China, the Solomon Islands and Micronesia.

Paul holds a Masters in Leadership and Management from Charles Sturt University and a Bachelors Degree in Business Management from Monash University. He also holds a diploma in Training and Assessment Systems.

He a Partner at the Value Creation Group and Director of Leadership Matters.