Ian Macdonald
Ian is a chartered psychologist previously based at Brunel University and who now leads Macdonald Associates Consultancy. He graduated with Honours in Psychology from Brunel in 1972 after spending periods of work as a commodity-broker in New York, a trainee therapist in a therapeutic community in London and assistant to an Educational Psychologist in a child guidance clinic in Aylesbury. He then worked for the Open University in Milton Keynes as an Educational Consultant. He rejoined Brunel a...
Hilton Barnett
Hilton is based in White River, South Africa working through his small consultancy: Hilton Barnett & Associates, which represents MAC in Southern Africa. Whilst studying towards a Bachelor of Social Science degree (Psychology) at the University of Cape Town, Hilton began to develop and apply his people skills in youth and community work and he continued this whilst completing his post-graduate degree in Australia at Sydney University. Hilton's community work with young people led him to ...
Rod Barnett
Rod Barnett has experience in management, education, training and organizational change in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ghana, Indonesia, U.S.A. and Brazil. After working in student leadership training in Brazil in 1982, he returned to South Africa and taught in a secondary school for three years. Rod then spent three years setting up and managing a change and development program with students and young adults in a troubled Black township outside Johannesburg. During the 1980's ...
Phillip Bartlett
Phillip is a Partner in Response Consulting Australia, a Brisbane based business advisory firm and Registered Training Organisation (RTO). He has over 20 years experience as an Organisational Development consultant and has been managing Response since establishing it some 14 years ago. Phillip’s background prior to consulting was in the Coal Mining Industry where he was involved in the start up of a major Queensland Project, working both Open Cut and Underground. He also spent time before thi...
Rob Chaston
Since 2002 Rob has been consulting in a number of industries including coal mining, aluminium smelting, law, information technology, banking, shipping logisitics and not-for profit organisations. Prior to establishing his consultancy he accumulated over 37 years corporate experience in senior roles in the Banking and Finance sector with the Commonwealth Bank. While at the bank he became involved with Macdonald Associates as a co-presenter, mentor and coach of the SLT material which he also...
David Dadswell
Based in Windsor, UK, David has been working with a range of commercial, public and voluntary organisations since 1996. He has worked as a consultant and project leader with commercial concerns such as mining and resources, the gas industry, pharmaceuticals, and financial institutions, public bodies such as national training bodies, universities, schools and local authorities and voluntary organisations such as local and national churches, mental health charities and housing associations. Thi...
Griff Dines
On leaving school, Griff joined the UK Ministry of Defence and trained as an engineer and Naval Architect. He has an engineering PhD from Cambridge University. Subsequently, Griff studied theology and held several leadership roles in the Anglican Church, culminating in leading the team running the Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow. In 1996 he was one of the two founder members of the successful organic Unicorn Grocery in Manchester. Since becoming a management consultant he has worked with ...
Michael Evers
Michael Evers became a Macdonald Associate in 1999 in a special arrangement that allows him to work in the Anglican Church. At present he works with Philip Biggs in the Diocese of Perth, Western Australia on projects which include training for new clergy, parish leadership teams, ministry resource centres which link Anglican Community Schools and parishes, Anglican Community Schools, and diocesan restructuring. This work includes leading training in leadership, teamwork, organisational structure...
Roy Feltham
Roy is a chartered gas engineer with 30 years experience of operational management and strategy development in the UK gas industry. He has a track record of business improvement, service delivery, innovation, change management and industry and team leadership. Roy held senior management positions in the nationalised and privatised British Gas up to 1994. Examples of achievements include the leadership of an eight year programme of work that resulted in a fundamental and comprehensive transfor...
Michelle Forbes-Harper
Michelle has been a Macdonald Associate since 2001. Michelle originally trained as a secondary English teacher in Western Australia in the early 1970s and later taught in a variety of government and non-government schools in Australia, the U.K., Turkey, Thailand and Papua New Guinea. She has had wide experience in working with people from many nationalities and cultural backgrounds. In 1997, while teaching at Kormilda College in the Northern Territory of Australia, she participated in a ...
Joe Grimmond
Joe is the Principal of G & C and has worked both as a Consultant and Senior Executive in a number of Australian and North American Resource Development and Mineral Processing Companies. His most recent Management position was as Director of Human Resources with Kaiser Aluminium and Chemical Corporation in the USA (Alumina Business Unit). Prior to moving to this position Joe was the General Manager -Employee Relations with Century Zinc Ltd. as part of the CRA Group. In addition to the acco...
Dave Hodgson
David Hodgson held a range of senior management positions with large international companies including Rio Tinto, MIM Holdings and Xstrata before becoming an independent consultant specialising in organisational improvement. He has worked in both site and corporate settings and has a background in operations and maintenance leadership, organisation development and human resources. His career to date includes experience in Australia, Canada and PNG and over six years in South America, Europe, No...
Ken McDonald
Ken established his organization consulting business Mastering Management in 1999 and became an Associate of MAC at that time. He has consulted to a large number of organizations in Australia and Canada since. Prior to consulting, Ken was mostly in a wide range of leadership roles in mining and mineral processing organizations for over 25 years. Ken is a Mining Engineer, graduating with Honours from University of Queensland in 1972. He first worked for Utah Development Company as a mine pl...
Geoff McGill
Geoff holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree from Monash University. Geoff has had more than 30 years experience in employee relations, human resource management and organisational change in the public and private sectors. This has included more than 15 years in senior policy roles for the Australian Government in wages policy and labour market reform and the next twenty years in the private sector. In 1988 he left the Australian Public Service to participate in the Business ...
Brian Midgley
Brian Midgley is an engineer who, prior to 1995, spent the previous 26 years of his career with the Rio Tinto group of companies. He was born in York, England and trained as an electrical engineer through a student apprenticeship with the Central Electricity Generating Board of the U.K. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Electrical Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer. Before emigrating to Australia in 1969 he worked for a number of years on the construction, operation and maintenance of...
Graeme Mitchell
Graeme is a senior consultant in organisational psychology. He has extensive experience in this field and in human resource management, advising senior management in large to medium sized businesses on organisational performance issues and improvement opportunities. He has demonstrated success in influencing and strategic thinking and has a proven track record in leading organisational change. Graeme is experienced in organisational effectiveness work including executive training, team leadershi...
Mark Potter
Mark established his own management consultancy, M Consulting, and became an associate of Macdonald Associates Consultancy in 2002. He is committed to working with people and organisations to help them work together more effectively. Industries spanned in Marks' consulting work include Mining (predominantly coal) and support services, Refining, Local Government, Universities and the Banking Sector. Mark’s background is predominantly in banking and finance with educational qualifications i...