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THE TEAM

The IRIS consulting team support The Brains Trust in delivering training, coaching and consulting services.

The IRIS consulting team come from a diverse background including psychologist, management consutlatns, trainers, welfare workers, teachers, lawyers, bankers and more...

Due to the vast scope of work performed by IRIS consulting over many countries we call upon a network or highly trained and extremly well resourced consulting practitioners.

The following list of IRIS consultants contribute regularly to the maturing of our programs and the expert facilitation of our constantly evolving portfolio of training and coaching programs. If you would like to work with IRIS please take a look at work with us and drop us a line if you want to talk further...

 
EDDIE KI CHAN based in Hong Kong

Eddie's profile is currently being updated!

 
AMY CHOW based in Hong Kong

Amy's profile is currently being updated!

 
JENNIFER DIGNAM based in Singapore and Sydney

Jennifer's career has spanned more then 20 years of change and strategy implemtnation, learning and development, organisation development and general resource strategy and management.

Working with a number of clients from a varierty of industries within the private and public sectors her work has seen Jennifer lead and manage very large and complex project teams that are often geographically dispersed. In these roles she has worked to develop and implement human resource strategies; start-up human resources and learnign departments; develop and implement change strategy for a large and complex public organisations; develop and facilitate learning and training programs; develop and implement leadership and talent management programs; undertake culture audits and culture change programs; and provide senior and exetuive management coaching and mentoring.

Splitting her time between her Singapore and Sydney offices Jennifer continues to lead teams of people in both countries who are actively implementing her unique human resource leadership and development strategies.

 
GRACE HO based in Hong Kong

Grace's profile is currently being updated!

 
LEWIS LAM based in Sydney, Hong Kong & Xiamen

Lewis is a CPA by training and brings to the team a commitment and enthusiasm for effective business manaement through his studies in finance and his experiences as senior tax consultant in public practice in Sydney Australia.

Outside of IRIS he is currently acting as a senior tax and finance consultant and advisor for number of public practices and is the Principal of Visions Synergy Associates.

Before opening his own public practice, Lewis was working in several Hong Kong & China based companies. Prior to making Sydney is home base he was the head of the finance division for the Asia Pacific region based in Hong Kong, as Financial Controller for Florsheim Pacific (a multinational shoe company with head office based in the US).

In additional his knowledge & expertises of the Australian and inernational taxation systems, he has also had substantial experience and exposures to both Hong Kong & China business markets and brings an interesting base of training to IRIS consulting.

 
MARION NEUBRONNER based in Singapore

Marion's academic background is found in Human Development and Psychology completeing a Master's Degree with the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the USA.

As an applied psychologist and researcher from a human development and training background, Marion has had a career advising on recruitment, interviewing techniques, testing and selection as wel as a vast background in training needs analysis.

Marion brings to the IRIS team a strong background in coaching and counselling; working from a proactive problem resolution model she is instrumental in helping her clients build resilience and improve their interpersonal communication.

As a learning specialist with over 15 years experieince, she has trained more then 1,500 students; Marion enjoys using advances in learning theory to enhance the change and growth of individuals, communities and organisations.

 
MATTHEW NIPPERESS based in Mudgee

Matt brings to the team a background in Information Technology and has held many high security postions in programming for a number of government and private sector bodies.

Matt has many hours of training and support under his belt within the IT sector.

 
HELEN WARREN based in Toowoomba

A 'country girl' by birth; Helen had the classic Austrlain bush upbringing with parents who whewer both graziers and agricultural machinery suppliers. Being shipped off to boarding schall as a very young girl, Helen graduated from school to follow a diverse range of studies with formal readings in theology, counselling and education. However, Helen beleives her greatest learning base for being an IRIS consultant is the fact she has rasied three happy, healthy and successful adult boys.

Based in Toowoomba on the top of the Darling Downs in Queensland Helen brings to the consulting relationship a true understanding of the challenges businesses face in providing support and development services for team members staffing rural and remote operations. It is this commitment to the services of the country that has meant Helen has received many awards and acknowledgements for her work in expanding services, particularly in community development, health care and education, throughout country Queensland and the far north-west of Australia.

Throughout her career Helen has worn many hats performing the roles of teacher, counsellor, coach, business manager, grazier and mother. She applies the insights she gained through these roles in her work as a consultant often bringing about simple but highly effective change to how companies do what they do. Her straight talking elegance means she has received many fans amongst the clients and staff of IRIS over the years.

Helen currently dreams of being retired but has too strong of a fan base to let her do this fully, so she now shares her time split between being an active committee member of many community projects, a consultant and proud grandmother of her “greatest little treasures!”

 
TOM WARREN based in Toowoomba

Toowoomba based Tom closely monitors developments in business for our team and regularly offers advice to clients as they move forward in different ways.

Tom’s wealth of knowledge comes from more then 40 years as an accountant. During this time he has held many roles and board positions. His career is dominated by his role as the Principal of the second largest accounting practice in Queensland for many years.

He brings to the team expertise in business tax systems, auditing and finance; with a wealth of experience as a mentor, coach and trainer to many in the financial services sector throughout Asia, Africa, the Pacific and Australia.

 
LORETTA WONG based in Hong Kong

Loretta's profile is currently being updated!

 
SUZY WOODHOUSE based in Melbourne

Suzy Woodhouse operates a coaching, training and consulting practice with over 16 years experieince designing, delivering and avaluating organisatins' management, training and work processes and practices. Suzy works with clients in the international corporate, federal, state and local government sectors, with manuafacturing and service industries, community organsiations and acadmeic, education, health and social work industries.

Suzy works with individuals, work-teams and groups at senior, executive, middle management and frontline levels. She introduces senior and middle managers and team leaders to practical ways of improving their leadership, personal and team management. Suzy helps managers to align their personal management content and style with their organisations preferred modes.

Suzy is a qualified, professional, ethical and confidential Coach, working with people from a variety of professions and roles incuding; CEO's, Mayors, directors, senior executives, economic developers, social workers, managers or marketing, cultural affiars, environment, finance, occupational therapists, social planners and other professionals.

Suzy's Coaching and championing of managers is personalised, supportive,insughtful and effective in bringing about real change. Her style is warm, dynamic, responsive and experieintial. This enhances managers' skills, behaviours, performance and efficiencies. Suzy draws on action leraning, NLP, resilieince techniques and accelerated learning modesl with interesting case studies and role plays to bring training ideas to life. Mangers practice, learn and enthusiastically apply their new skills back at work.

Suzy has a diverse background of skills to call upon but has real speciality in leadership, managing change, communications, performacne enhancment, team leadership, business writing and report writing, presentation skills, media and marketing.

 

 

 
 
 
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