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Imogen Wareing
Career Summary
Imogen has over twenty six years successful experience as a Human Resources Manager and Consultant including organisational change, mentoring, career planning and development and leadership. Her particular strengths lie in applying her knowledge of organisation dynamics to people development and personal growth and change.
During her consulting career with Urwick International, Price Waterhouse Urwick and in the last fourteen years of managing her own consultancy firm, Imogen has established an excellent reputation for her integrity and successful solutions. She is a warm and inspiring facilitator, and she has become recognised as a public speaker and spokesperson on organisational change, mentoring and women's issues. Imogen also combines her extensive management and consulting experience to offer individual corporate coaching, supporting clients in their development to reach their true organisational potential.
Summary of Relevant Experience
• Mentoring
Imogen is regarded as one of the leading Australian experts in mentoring. Frequently called upon for her opinions by journalists, Imogen is also an accomplished speaker and writer in this area. Imogen has successfully designed, implemented and evaluated twenty-seven mentoring programs throughout Australia, ranging in focus from front line staff, to graduates, to executives. Each program is designed to fit the unique needs of the organisation and its objectives. Mentoring program objectives have included leadership development, staff retention, graduate induction, career progression, affirmative action and effecting major organisational change.
A selection of the twenty-seven organisations includes
• Leadership and Management Development
Imogen has extensive experience with the development of managers within organisations. She uses a wide variety of tools and programs to facilitate this development, from mentoring and coaching, to career development and specific leadership skills training for managers and executives. Her diverse training background allows Imogen to offer exactly what is needed, whether through a formal needs analysis or facilitating spontaneous discussions in workshops.
Some of the organisations for which Imogen has designed, implemented and evaluated programs designed specifically to develop management skills include
• Facilitation and Change Management
Imogen has been asked to facilitate numerous complex planning and problem solving meetings and conferences over the last fourteen years. She has worked across a diverse range of groups from executive teams strategic planning and crisis facilitation through middle management and supervisors to blue and white collar front line staff in transport, timber, finance, quarrying, mining, minerals manufacturing, laboratory research and call centres, to support them through handling change and enhancing their skills and self esteem.
Imogen creates a safe environment of trust and her sincere, natural and humorous style enables rapid and effective rapport so that groups can open up their concerns, deal with them and shift to positive and empowered attitudes and behaviours.
The facilitation of strategic planning sessions, and the changes they are deciding upon/implementing are inextricably linked. Organisations that Imogen had worked with to strategically plan, and deal with the complexities of change, include
• Career Development
Imogen has been heavily involved in this area for the past sixteen years, and has a wealth of experience to offer both individuals, as a career coach, and workshop groups. She has designed, delivered and evaluated a range of programs focusing on issues such as executive career development, retention of key groups (front line staff, women, minority groups,) manager as career coach, personal effectiveness skills, and career transition programs.
Clients that Imogen has partnered with to deliver career development services include
• Harassment and Discrimination Awareness
Imogen has designed, conducted and evaluated many programs throughout organisations to highlight the issues of harassment, diversity and discrimination. These have ranged from stand alone programs within specific business units to complete evaluations of organisations' approach to harassment and diversity issues.
Organisations for whom Imogen has provided similar services include
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