colin hurley

Colin has 20+ years’ experience as an advisor in strategy, organisational development, change management and business performance in petrochemicals, mining, utilities, retail banking, government and information technology in Australia/New Zealand, Europe, USA, Middle East, India, China, Central and South East Asia. Specific skills include:

Strategy & Planning; optimising strategy and planning by combining technical and value specific economic knowledge; at SABIC (>bn$50 revenue global petrochemicals company) as a strategic value and performance measurement and analysis specialist, at Stern Stewart implemented EVA/economic profit planning and remuneration regimes for clients, helping identify several millions of dollars in wealth creation opportunities, at Port of Melbourne advising on strategic value linked executive compensation and at Melbourne Water advising on strategic utility pricing

Process Improvement, Transformation & Change Management; operating model transformation, process improvement, organisational design, change management and strategic workforce planning. As an in-house advisor for SABIC supported realisation of EBIT improvement through delivery of the change management, organisational design and workforce transformation for several major operating model transformation projects. At GE Capital managed several process improvement projects as a 6-sigma quality expert (GE Master Black Belt qualification)

Corporate Finance, Valuations and M&A; development of bespoke financial and valuation models for SABIC’s chemicals portfolio, identifying several billion dollars in portfolio optimisation opportunity. As a corporate finance specialist with McKinsey provided value-based management and M&A analysis advice for clients in Europe and UK in oil and gas, transport and financial services sectors.

Performance Management, Recruitment and Talent Development; alignment and optimisation of organisational/corporate success with team/individual performance.