• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
    Edith Wharton

  • Education is the movement from darkness to light.
    Allan Bloom

  • The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
    Hazrat Inayat Khan

  • That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
    Ben Sweetland

  • Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World
    Christopher Columbus

  • The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most
    Unknown

  • We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
    Oscar Wilde

  • As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
    Carl Jung

  • What is to give light must endure burning.
    Dr Viktor Frankel

  • When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
    Carl Sagan

Our Associates & Connections

Through our alliances and our connections we have a broad and diverse network of local and international associates to call upon for larger projects. Some of our key relationships in this region are:

Atat Li-Kim-Mui, Sydney

Dr Atat Li-Kim-MuiDr 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_kaneChris 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_smailSheryl 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_gunzburgDavid has worked in the field of Human Resources for more than 25 years. His career has involved him in a number of industries and he has worked in senior HR roles with a select group of major Australian Corporations. David has been the Principal of DGHR Services since 2001.

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 WalsheSuzanne 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

obrienPaul 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.