Bio  for  Barry  Edwards  Nationality: Australian Resident: Thailand

Mobile: (Thailand) +66 (0) 899149040 Email address: barrytedwards@gmail.com Skype address: barry_edwards

Current role: A member of an elite group of professionals, working as a team and dedicated to transforming the performance of a leading edge organisations, through the development of their staff.

Profile: Barry has been a passionate contributor to people on a professional basis for thirty-two years.

He has extensive experience in organisational culture and change management, leadership development and working with high-performance teams.

He has led over 850 workshops, trained and coached over 35,000 executives, managers and staff. Specialising in transformational learning, with 32 years’ experience in successfully restructuring and developing more than 80 international businesses and their organisational cultures.

His experience spans multiple disciplines including executive coaching, transformational learning, performance management, team building, recruitment, psychometrics, behavioural-based competency framework development, performance review systems, customer service and personal development training.

He has a rich understanding of multiple industries, human resource development and cross-cultural dynamics, due to his diverse experience of designing and leading consulting initiatives and workshops for organisations throughout the world.

His forte is his ability to adapt current trends in training, leadership development, psychology and performance management to specific business cultures.

His operating style is strongly values based, deeply intuitive, innovative, visionary and customer focused.

He has extensive international experience in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, United States, Europe, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sri Lanka.

Major accomplishments: Contracted from Australia by the Emirates Group to drive a major change to manage company performance with 10,000 employees across 44 outstations worldwide. This encompassed designing and leading senior programmes to embed the new company values in the areas of leadership and coaching, team dynamics, values based behavioural competency frameworks and associated performance management processes. Research and development of core values and behavioural competencies for over 200 managers and supervisors at Dubal (Dubai Aluminium). This involved a thorough exploration of the technical processes, work practices and performance objectives of each senior role. The aim was to create a practical values based competency framework, as the basis for future recruitment, succession planning, staff development and performance management. Research and development of core values for the Performance Management System for Saudi Formaldehyde Chemical Co. Ltd, a chemical plant and United Gulf Steel, a rolling mill in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This involved the development of a values based behavioural competency framework and performance review system, associated training programmes and staff development plans. Coached senior management in the implementation process.

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Led the change management programme to restructure Kinnarps of Sweden in Dubai. Designed the systems and procedures based on the company’s new core values for recruitment, development and retention of staff. Created a sales team of 12 members in Dubai, Oman and Saudi Arabia producing 3.9 million dirhams (US$1.1 million) GP per quarter. Also responsible for the creation of Kinnarps Konstruction building works company and Kinnarps Konsulting Group. Today the Kinnarps Group generates 110 million Dirhams (US$7.5 million) GP per quarter with a sales team of 25 members. Developed and facilitated numerous Transformational learning programmes for multiple clients in Australia, provided executive mentoring and coaching to CEO’s, business owners and facilitators of these programmes. Presented as key note speaker at the “ Authentic Leadership Symposium” in Melbourne, Australia in October 2009. Developed the workplace reform and culture change programme for Colonial Insurance in Australia. Designed and led an intensive series of programmes to assist individuals to adapt, refocus and align to the new culture and values. resulting increase in both productivity and morale was so dramatic that the company was awarded a half-million-dollar “Australian Best Practices Demonstration" grant by the Federal Government. Co-designed and developed the ’Frontline Managers’ programme for the 85,000 employee’s of Telstra telecommunications operation in Australia. This programme was designed to change the manager’s behaviours from a functional outlook to a strong team with customer focussed and team values. Designed the values based cultural change programme to restructure ACL Tri-Star recruiting in Australia. In conjunction with an international recruitment specialist, developed the new systems and procedures for the organisation. This led to the rapid growth and resulting sale to the International HR and recruiting firm Robert Walters PLC. Designed and led the nation-wide implementation of the Apple Centre concept and ‘Building the Difference’ programme, a values based customer service training programme for Apple Computers in Australia. Reformed the Australian rock legend, ‘Skyhooks’ to perform a 100 date tour of Australia.

Qualifications & Training: Certificate of Competence in Occupational testing, Level A & B (British Psychological Society) Personality Assessment Certificate , Psytech International, UK Senior Course Leader Development Programme (5 years, Werner Erhard & Assoc. Australia & USA) Communication Course Leaders Programme (1 year, Werner Erhard & Assoc. USA) Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioners Programme Extensive short (two week) courses in Total Quality Management, Benchmarking, sales, management and self development.

Key Clients: South East Asia Sun Microsystems Ltd BP Singapore and Malaysia Imagineering Technologies Ltd, Hong Kong & Singapore Rhone Poulenc Animal Nutrition, Hong Kong, KL & Singapore Tech Pacific Pty. Ltd, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia

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Middle East Al Futtaim Training Centre, Dubai Baker Atlas, Bahrain Caltex Middle East, Egypt & UAE Carrier Air-conditioning, Abu Dhabi & Dubai Compaq Computers’ Abu Dhabi & Dubai Dubai Air Travel Association – DNATA, Abu Dhabi, Dubai & Sri Lanka Dubal -Dubai Aluminium, Dubai Eagle Star Insurance, Dubai Emirates Airline, Dubai Ericsson, Abu Dhabi & Dubai Kinnarps of Sweden, Dubai, Jeddah, Riyadh, Cairo Mashreq Bank’ Dubai. Oracle Computer’ Dubai Saudi Formaldehyde Chemical Company Limited, Jubail & Dammam, Saudi Arabia Shell Middle East, Dubai Sun Microsystems Ltd United Gulf Steel, Jubail, Saudi Arabia

United States of America Werner Erhard & Associates, San Francisco Sun Microsystems Ltd.

Australia & New Zealand Apple Computer Australia Pty. Ltd Attorney Generals Department - Consumer Affairs, Canberra, Australia ACL Tri-Star Pty. Ltd, Melbourne & Sydney Arnold Bloch Leibler Australia Post CarmanWhite Pty. Ltd Colonial Insurance Australia Curtin University, Perth, Australia Ernst & Young, Australia Fusion Workforce Pty. Ltd IOOF of Victoria Friendly Society, Australia ICI Dulux Australia Pty. Ltd Imagineering Technologies Ltd, New Zealand and Australia Lighthouse Foundation, Australia Melbourne Water, Australia Myer Grace Bros., Australia Net Balance Management Group Passenger Transport Board of South Australia Resource Solutions Group Rhone Poulenc Animal Nutrition, Australia Rhone Poulenc Chemicals, Australia & New Zealand Royal Australian Air Force Shannon’s Corporation, Australia Shell Australia Siemens Limited, Australia Skyhooks, Rock group, Australia SSA Pacific Pty. Ltd, Australia State Computers, Australia Sun Alliance and Royal Insurance Australia Synergy Conventions, Australia Tech Pacific Pty. Ltd, Australia Telstra Australia Victorian Association of Youth in Communities Victorian Rock Foundation, Australia Wardley Investment Services Australia Ltd