BARBARA CRAVEN

 

Director – The Achievement Network Australia

 

Barbara is an industrial psychologist, who has spend her working life assisting directors and senior board members bring about the business changes they require in order to run successful organisations. With a focus on the direct connection between people's ability to change and its impact on bottom line results, Barbara believes that people's ability to change has a direct impact on an organisation's ability to change.

 

Barbara has had extensive experience in the strategic human resource and organisational development fields, having coached and mentored senior executives and directors across South Africa and Australia. Her focus has always been ensuring that appropriate processes are in place in order for employees to contribute to achieving the strategic goals of an organisation.

 

Throughout her career, Barbara has worked within many different industries, including finance, insurance, health, retail, logistics, advertising, aged care, recruitment consulting and restaurant management. She has facilitated strategic planning processes for small and medium businesses, implemented team development interventions for executive teams, and has ensured the alignment of relationships between different parts of an organisation so that business outcomes could be achieved more effectively.

 

As a consultant, Barbara centres on the "strategic people issues" that businesses are facing today, and works with line managers to help them think differently about how to resolve these issues effectively so that business outcomes can be achieved.

 

People + Purpose + Process = Performance