Karrak Consulting

Karrak Consulting's Principal Consultant, Kim Lisson, works in association with a range of associates and collaborators to deliver leadership programs and consulting services.

These long-standing relationships with a wide range of local consulting and coaching associates, stretch back over 10-15 years, and with his national and international collaborators, even further. Collectively they have:

• Relevant backgrounds in leadership, organisational and community development, adult learning facilitation, coaching and consulting, and sustainability.
• An acute understanding of the role and importance of leadership in organisations, communities (and life in general) in supporting vibrancy and resilience.
• A high level of personal authenticity, credibility and professional standards.
• Shared values and perspectives surrounding the leadership role that arts and culture can and does play in society.

Qualifications/Accreditations

• Bachelor of Arts (sociology), Australian National University (1990)
• Masters of Leadership & Management, Curtin University (partial - 1997)
• Master of Arts (Ecologically Sustainable Development), Murdoch University (2010)
• WA's first Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coach Federation (2003)
• Accredited Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (1986) and Step II MBTI (2012)
• Accredited Team Management Systems (1986)
• Accredited Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) 360º assessment (2013)
• Accredited Life Styles Inventory (LSI) 360º assessment (2020)

Kim has over 30 years experience in the leadership, organisational and community development field. Initially within the Australian federal public sector and later as a consultant, based in Western Australia, he has a long history of designing and implementing action-learning leadership development programs that build leadership capacity and facilitate new directions and possibilities. Kim is also one of Australia’s longest-standing of professional coaches, providing one-on-one coaching that support his clients to remain resilient and resourceful as they navigate change and manage for results. A significant part of his experience has also involved training other coaches and supporting leaders to learn and apply coaching skills.

At a ‘big picture’ or strategic level, Kim's expertise involves designing programs that help align people, culture and processes to ensure success. He also relishes hands-on work designing and holding spaces for people to learn and apply new ideas in their own lives and roles. He believes any change that is real and sustainable starts with individuals and small groups working as part of a larger organisational or community context.

Kim is, at heart, a developer of people, and this shows through in his facilitation and coaching roles. To these roles he brings a unique blend of playfulness, artistry and genuine care and empathy supported by an underlying assumption that, at the end of the day, individuals are their own best teachers. Kim loves working with language, metaphor, archetype and symbol and enjoys helping people to ‘re-author’ their lives, work and leadership.

As a natural innovator and social/eco-entrepreneur, Kim is passionate about helping individuals, organisations and communities to become more prosperous and more sustainable at a personal, social and ecological level.

Collaborators

You will find a summary of the core capabilities of our key collaborators and, by reading more, their qualifications and a short biography.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science (Human Relations and Organisational Behaviour), University of San Francisco
• Master of Arts, California State University, Sacramento
• Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Fellow and former Board member of Leadership Victoria
• Business and Professional Women’s Community Leadership Award

Summary of Experience

Gayle and her Global Leadership Foundation co-founder, Malcolm Lazenby, are passionate about and committed to making a positive difference to people, organisations and communities – both locally and globally. They each bring over 30 years of experience and internationally recognised expertise in developing, strengthening and transforming individuals, teams, organisations and communities.

As a ‘for purpose’ organisation and a certified B Corp, Global Leadership Foundation, uses its business as a “force for good”, placing its profit each year into a philanthropic fund for the development of leaders in community. Its pro-bono and low bono work also strengthens and supports individuals, organisations and communities to build compassionate and sustainable approaches to leadership and life.

Global Leadership Foundation along with its Global Fellows, works with boards and senior leaders all over the world in a range of areas, including: transformational leadership and change in individuals and organisations, strategic planning and development, emotional health and leadership resilience, leading through facilitating, strengthening collaboration, and board and executive mentoring and coaching.

Qualifications

• PhD, Adelaide University (2017) awarded a Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Excellence
• Bachelor of Economics, University of Adelaide
• Graduate Diploma in Management, University of South Australia
• Certificate IV Training and Workplace Assessor
• SA’s first Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coach Federation (2005)
• Life Styles Inventory (LSI) accreditation from Human Synergistics
• Team Management Profile & Leader Linker Profile from Team Management Systems
• Level 1 Spiral Dynamics Practitioner
• The Coaching Clinic from Corporate CoachU

Summary of Experience

Josie is a consultant, speaker, coach and the creative director of The Partnership and she leads their client liaison, program development and delivery. Since 1999, she has designed and delivered various developmental programs, in the public and private sectors, blue-chip companies, and community organisations as well as working with indigenous leaders.

Prior to commencing her own consulting/coaching firm in 1999, her background included experience from a diverse working background encompassing strategic planning in the automotive and finance sectors, credit analysis in a merchant bank as well as operation of a finance company branch and business advisor.

Josie adopts a wide range of ‘modalities’ including executive coaching, group coaching, team coaching, design and facilitation of leadership programs and specialised interventions. Josie is one of the founders of the professional coaching industry in Australia, having been one of the founding Board Members for the ICF (Australasia), and its President in 2003. She has been internationally recognised with the 2009 ICF global President’s Award.

Josie works with executives leading major organisational cultural change initiatives, enabling them to transform themselves as a pathway to transforming their organisations. She has successfully delivered combinations of leadership programs and unique adaptive interventions to cultivate the conditions for profound change and cultural evolution within organisations.

Josie is passionate about cultivating the conditions for a profound change in organisational cultures that sustain people to deliver better outcomes for their communities and the natural environment. You will hear Josie’s laugh before you see her approaching.

Qualifications

• BA (Politics and International Studies), Murdoch University (1999)
• Postgraduate Certificate (Economics), Murdoch University (2002)
• Chair of the Board, WA Deaf Society
• Member, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia

Summary of Experience

Annette has over 15 years experience in strategic and business planning, supporting dozens of organisations across various sectors including disability, building, health, infrastructure and the arts. As a seasoned Executive and Board Chairperson, her consulting expertise and practical experience provide her with the perfect blend to support organisations who wish to dream of and realise creative and intentional futures.

Her experience also includes a strong focus on relationship contracting, team building and high performance within infrastructure industries - working within and across the road, water, electricity, rail and building sectors. She has extensive expertise in strategic procurement and commercial alignment, having worked on all sides of industry; as a regulator, as a service provider, as a tenderer, as an internal consultant, and as a project participant.

As a consultant, Annette works through her business Creational Consulting to support organisations to navigate strategic and business planning processes, commercial negotiations, tender and bid processes, and project performance reviews. She has supported many clients to create and sustain high performance teams during the design, development, delivery and completion phases of project and program execution. Annette has also been involved in organisational development and evolution activities such as change management, strategic planning, entrepreneurial initiatives, organisational ‘health’ reviews, team building and industry engagement. In all of these activities Annette focuses on building business for the 22nd century.

Annette is best known for her style of delivery, bringing a unique blend of high energy, engaging facilitation with extensive practical experience in commercial and regulatory environments. Her philosophy is based on ‘creating intentional outcomes’ and she prefers to work in partnership with her clients to ensure the most optimal and enduring outcomes.

Values

At the heart of our commitment to collaborate are shared values, when it comes to working together. These include:

• Impact – by combining our individual and organisational strengths we seek to maximise the results of our work
• Service – we each take seriously our commitment to do our best for our clients and program participants, and to care for and be generous with each other
• Respect – we value equally, our own views and the different opinions and perspectives offered by each other
• Trust and Flexibility – we sometimes have to take a ‘leap of faith’ together when work, timeframes and even money is uncertain
• Dialogue – we are willing to have clear conversations to gain clarity and understanding when different views seem challenging
• Learning – we support and encourage each other’s mutual personal and professional development, just as we do with our clients
• Sustainability – we are all committed to promoting leadership that is more life-giving for everyone, and for their relationships with others and the Earth