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Steve Atkinson

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Stephen Atkinson


Director
Melbourne
atkinson@reospartners.com

Leadership Team
Stephen AtkinsonMelbourne
Mille BojerGenevaYiannis ChrysostomidisLondonRussell FisherMelbourneAdam KahaneMontrealColleen MagnerJohannesburgJoe McCarronCambridgeGuilherme RodriguesSão PauloChristel ScholtenSão PauloMahmood SondayJohannesburgView the Australia Team »
 

Steve works with clients to unlock stuck problems and shift from “good to great” by finding innovative ways to realize high expectations.

About

Working with corporate, government, and community service clients, Steve Atkinson co-designs and co-creates interventions that tackle complex problems. For more than 20 years, as a management consultant, he has led key assignments of strategic impact for numerous multinational corporations and government institutions in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and USA.

A registered psychologist, Steve has worked in a variety of industries and sectors, including oil and gas, resources, telecommunications, healthcare, banking and financial services, trading, manufacturing, and education. He is a nonexecutive board member of the Australian Community Support Organization, a leading provider of support services for people in or at risk of entering the criminal justice system in Victoria, Australia.

Expertise

Business and process design, facilitation, problem solving

Selected Projects

  • Health Futures Australia
  • Aboriginal Health Lab
  • National Transformative Scenarios for the country of Thailand
  • National scenario dialogue for indigenous Australians
  • Working to create a new global benchmark for innovative environmental and social sustainability practices within the construction industry
  • Scenarios on the sociopolitical and economic future of South Africa

News Posts

  • The Forests of Eastern Victoria - The Experiences and Challenges of Working with Adversaries
  • Possible Futures for the Forests of Eastern Victoria
  • A New Strategy for Aboriginal Health in New South Wales, Australia
 

Background

  • Worked within two US-based international consulting firms
  • Led his own consultancy for 15 years that specialized in building high-performing organizations, business strategy, change leadership, leadership development, and work culture transformation
  • Oversaw a work culture turnaround in a national telecommunications corporation
  • Reshaped mindsets within a global minerals exploration organization
  • Built leadership capability within a leading oil and gas corporation
  • Developed 2,000 leaders in a telecommunications corporation, which translated into significant financial and process efficiency gains
  • Created high-performing financial services organizations, leading to three-fold growth
  • Created business turnaround models for a Japanese trading house
  • Rebuilt leadership capability across a sector of educational leaders

Education

  • BS (honours), University of Melbourne
  • MA in Organizational Psychology, University of Melbourne
  • Oxford Scenario Programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford

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