OD21 itself is comprised of three parts - the engine room, organisational developmental consulting, and internal process improvement. As different as those areas of expertise, are the three founding partners of OD21.

Herman Putter
Founding partner of OD21 and integral member of the research team involved in developing the M4P and associated programs, Herman brings a lifetime of experience in organisational psychology and consultative work in the field of human behavior.

Armed with a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education, Higher Education Diploma, Certificate in Project Management and a Master of Psychology Degree, Herman combines high-level academic understanding with hands-on management experience.

Herman has both practiced as a clinical psychologist and taught psychology in tertiary institutions; he has been Acting Principal of a Teachers Training College, and Divisional Chair of a 90,000-student Polytechnic; he has worked as Training Manager of a Fortune 500 company, Advisor for the faculty of Business Studies at a leading tertiary institution in South Africa, and been CEO of a 400-employee company.

Herman brings a wealth of understanding of organisational development and the need for purpose-built cultures.

Pierre Skinner
A Registered Professional Engineer at The Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland, Pierre manages the mathematical modeling and data analysis of OD21's programs.

Pierre's background is one of project management across a range of civil, agricultural and structural engineering projects, as a consulting engineer to local, state and federal government bodies, laying the foundation for a deep appreciation of the value of risk and systems analysis in organisations.

With a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering, Pierre brings an affinity for detail and interpretation of the numbers, so important in evaluating and validating the responses to the questionnaires that form the foundation of the various OD21 programs.

As a long-time business owner himself, Pierre understands the value of teamwork and leveraging human capital to enhance an organisation's performance in competitive environments.

Nick Alford
Beginning his working life in the exploration industry as a geoscientist has led to a diverse and valuable range of business experiences. From geophysics through manufacturing and services industries, Nick has cultivated a career in management, working his way through the sales & operations areas of a variety of small and large organisations.

His roles have included complex data analysis and systems development, warehouse distribution systems and facilities development, training and management of operations at a state level for small and large organisations. This hands-on operational management experience is key to Nick’s understanding of the productivity and growth issues facing organisations today.

Nick is also involved with a number of organistaions in an advisory capacity to their senior executive in areas of strategy and sustainability.

Since 1997 Nick has been involved in creating forums for CEO’s and senior executives enabling them to develop their skills and improve their performance a superior level.

He is now assisting numerous organisations in the strategy implementation and execution as well as organisational structuring and senior executive development.

ASSOCIATES

Peter Baines

Peter gained a PhD in physics which initially led him into a software development role, when it was time to get a haircut and get a real job. As is very common, he climbed the corporate ladder taking roles in the management of R&D, manufacturing, marketing and distribution. He has served as MD of a medium sized organisation operating in the AsiaPac market and has held various directorships in private companies.

Along the way he picked up a business diploma in marketing and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Strangely enough for a scientist, he has a real passion for marketing and the application of it to business strategy formulation, business turn-around, international markets, and mergers and acquisitions.

Currently Peter operates a consultancy based in Brisbane, has lived and worked in New Zealand and Europe, and has business experience in China, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and the USA.

www.baines.com.au

Iain McCormick

Iain holds a Master of Social Science with First Class Honours, a Diploma in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in organisational psychology for his research in the area of work stress. He heads the Executive Coaching Centre Limited in New Zealand. Prior to this he was Consulting Partner with Deloitte working in Canada and New Zealand then Managing Director of Aon Human Resources Consulting, Hong Kong.

He currently coaches a range of boards of directors, chief executives and other senior managers in New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Hong Kong. Iain has built and runs the web-based www.DirectorEvaluation.com System. He has taught in the Auckland University Business School for the last 6 years on a part time basis in the areas of people management and learning and development. He chairs the board of an Auckland manufacturing company and is a director in a small medical equipment start up company.
He has extensive experience in collaborate procurement working as an alliance coach with Transpower, NZ Transport Agency and Auckland City Council.

Executive Coaching Centre Ltd

www.directorevaluation.com

Roman Krumins

Roman started his professional life as a mechanical engineer. He worked in the food industry, minerals processing and in petrochemicals before completing his MBA at University of Queensland. He then spent five years in operations management, corporations development and studied some law before entering the field of business consulting eleven years ago.

He is now a seasoned change agent, facilitator of world class outcomes and adept at integrating organisation business needs, systems and people.

www.rkcorpsol.com.au

Paul McKey

Paul is an internationally recognised authority in the area of online learning. He is Redbean’s founder and senior consultant, and specialises in the design of successful learning and development programs that make a difference and achieve results. Paul has consulted and practiced extensively in the IT and education sectors in Australasia and the USA, primarily in the areas of organisational learning and development, online learning programs, online systems design and business improvement.

Redbean Learning Solutions is an independent and objective Learning and Development Consultancy. Redbean has over 15 years experience designing, developing and implementing all facets of learning programs and providing consulting services across the government, corporate and education sectors. Redbean can advise on virtually every facet of learning program design and implementation.

www.redbean.com.au

Karen Portsmouth

Karen has 20 years experience in both public and private sectors companies, working in Organisational and Managerial Development, Quality and Risk Management, Line Management, Clinical Experience, Training and Human Resources. This experience has been gained across many industries, including oil and gas, mining, civil construction, Federal, State and Local Government sectors, health and transportation in providing organisational and project support. She works with frontline, management and senior executive/board members to drive performance and innovation with specific skills in the following areas:

Leon de Wet

For over 20 years and on three continents, Leon has had a distinguished career in both the private and public sectors. Leon’s experience includes the financial services, securities, real estate, and construction industries as well as government and not-for-profit organizations. His competencies and broad experience enable him to provide a diverse range of clients with solutions to meet today’s challenges of creating future strategies to enhance business performance, managing risk, building and maintaining healthy workplace relations, strengthening corporate governance, complying with increasingly complex regulatory requirements, and providing meaningful performance reporting. Leon has a BA (Economics) and a LLB.

Scott Shearer

For more than 20 years Scott has been working in Information Technology and Executive Development. Scott has been a top performer with major local and international IT organisations including IBM and Kronos Australia. In addition he has been involved on the development of a number of businesses including CEO Institute in South Australia and Workforce Systems Innovation (WFSI).

Scott has worked across a broad cross section of industry in a variety of roles including management, training, systems development, sales and marketing. With vast experience working with senior executives right through to the shop floor, Scott specialises in bringing together and streamlining IT and business processes in the workforce management sector.

Sarah Webb

An independent consultant based in Perth, with over twenty years experience in partnering and coaching clients through business changes. Following an early career in a blue chip working in sales, customer service and quality management, Sarah is now focused on supporting leaders and teams by developing and delivering programmes to enhance their individual and overall performance. These programmes include: aligning project teams, increasing leaders’ impact and influence in their team and business, capturing lessons learned, managing change and continuous improvement. Her industry experience includes construction, oil and gas development, engineering, retail, mining, telecommunications, manufacturing and utilities.

Sarah specialises in working as an integral part of clients’ teams in their projects, their alliances and single business organisations. Her approach is to build effective working relationships with key people at every level of the organisation and to work with them on their required areas for performance enhancement. These coaching and continuous improvement activities focus on designing and facilitating workshops for leaders and teams to work together more effectively. Sessions can involve project road mapping, team performance review, roles and responsibility clarification and identification of the barriers and enablers to success. Sarah also facilitates the review and redesign of key processes; assisting teams with planning how to apply lessons learned; conducting employee climate surveys; researching and presenting an independent view of the state of a team/business; and identifying opportunities for performance improvement with recommendations on how to implement them.

Her overall aim is to achieve a measurable positive outcome for her clients to enable the achievement of their performance excellence objectives.

Glynne Selman

Glynne is an od21 consultant, living in Hawke’s Bay, on New Zealand’s beautiful east coast. He holds a Master of Science (MSc Tech), First Class Honours. His management career, at chief executive level, is extensive and includes sixteen years in a business consultancy and teaching role, with Eastern Institute of Technology’s Business Studies faculty. As part of this role, Glynne worked with literally hundreds of organisations across New Zealand - from SME to Corporate level, and including commercial, not-for-profit, central and local government – in areas of management development, strategic and operational planning, quality management, sales and marketing, project management, developing coaches, trainers and assessors; plus a wide range of ‘softer’ people management skills.

Having returned to consultancy, from a position as General Manager of a large health care provider in the intellectual disability sector, Glynne now specialises in first-line manager development. His experience, knowledge education and research underpin a specific approach he has developed, working with operational teams to identify and pursue project opportunities, which lead to measurable productivity gains.

Glynne maintains an interest not-for-profit work, and is a voluntary member of the Board of Management of a small Charitable Trust in Hawke’s Bay.