Therese Fuller, Principal of ThinkSmart Consulting

For more than 25 years, Therese has helped business work smarter.

Improved bottom lines follow when you realign culture and business direction, remove organisational blockages to high performance, resolve team conflict and build leadership capabilities. So do more enjoyable and productive workplaces.

Therese’s sound theoretical knowledge is complemented by her high-level business experience. She has held senior HR roles at Hawker De Havilland and Unilever and managed businesses including IIR, then the world’s largest privately owned training and development and conference provider.

As Head of Learning and Development at St George Bank, she guided her division through a major transformation, from simple training department to a dynamic, strategically relevant organisational development unit crucial to the company’s emergence as the fifth force in banking in Australia.

This line-management experience, including overseeing large budgets, dealing with long-term corporate challenges and building sustainable organisational processes, has given her a commercial acumen rare among her peers.

As a consultant, Therese has provided strategic guidance to Top 100 companies from many different industry sectors.

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Committed to ongoing professional development, Therese has a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Graduate Diploma in Organisational Change and Development, a Graduate Diploma in Employment Relations, a Masters in Business, and is among Australia’s first cohort earning a Graduate Diploma in the NeuroScience of Leadership, a fascinating new discipline focused on developments in neuroscience and how they inform leadership practices and organisational behaviour. The Australian Graduate School of Management has utilised her expertise as a tutor in management skills for its Executive MBA program.

She is a member of the Australian Institute of Management, the International Association of Facilitators, the Society for Organisational Learning and the American Society of Training and Development. Therese is a Master Practitioner in Neurosemantics and is accredited in the key professional instruments, including the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Benchmarks 360˚ Profiling and the Emotional Competence Inventory.

Jason Hamlyn, Commercial Director, ThinkSmart Consulting

Having spent over 20 years working in senior sales management positions, the last six years at director level across the FMCG, Pharmaceutical and Digital Media and Entertainment Industries in the Asia Pacific region, Jason has made a natural progression into designing and delivering integrated communication and people solution programs to the private and public sector. This enables him to continue his passion for developing and working with great people and ideas: great businesses are a natural consequence.

Jason’s experience has helped him realise the value of wisdom in our lives and workplaces. He is now bringing this to life with his clients through his collaboration with Therese Fuller, Principal and Head Consultant at ThinkSmart Consulting. Together they are helping organisations achieve their business outcomes by providing leading edge knowledge and processes whilst focusing on people development, both personal and professional.

Jason contributes to the consulting practise as a credible advisor who has “walked the talk”; he has overseen change management processes in large organisations such as Unilever and Danone with full P&L responsibility and operated as an effective member of executive leadership teams. He has a track record of strategic, commercial and change management success in growing market-leading brands, and building quality teams across various functions and channels. His results have been achieved through an application of sound market knowledge, strong business acumen, dynamic leadership and an enviable capacity to build lasting business relationships.

Jason’s background enables him to relate to and understand people and organisations; he is able to draw on personal experience and wisdom to assist others in their own development. He is a dynamic, talented public speaker and story teller, relishing in his role as MC at key corporate and public events.

As needed, ThinkSmart also calls upon other trusted, experienced and effective consultants, each offering specialised skills, depending on the nature of the project.