About Us

Haydn brings 30 years of real-world experience in coaching, training, facilitation, program management and business analysis to the leadership team of Mindavation. He is a sought-after international speaker who connects with crowds and leave them with lasting tips and tricks they can apply in the real world.

His extensive experience working with large organisations and Machinery of Government transitions has given him unique insights into defining and implementing structure, business solutions, leadership, change management, competencies and efficiencies.

Haydn has an outstanding record of achievement, developing and negotiating structured business strategies. Coupled with his outstanding communication and presentation skills and outcomes-driven approach, he excels in coaching teams and individuals, strategic facilitation and business advice.

He is a successful presenter on LinkedIn Learning, with his many business analysis courses receiving consistently high ratings. See one of his top-rated LinkedIn courses: Business Process Modelling

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Margie is an innovative and highly motivated organisational change management, communications and executive coaching professional.

She thrives in dynamic and challenging workforce environments. For over 30 years, she has been helping people and businesses achieve more through a pragmatic approach to staff inclusion, facilitation and stakeholder engagement have helped organisations achieve their desired change outcomes.

Margie wears an owl brooch to work every day to remind herself to “never be afraid to ask those wise old questions: who, what, when, where, why and how.” She uses this approach to counsel the executive leaders she works with and progress organisational goals.

Margie is a former national magazine editor, journalist, published author (The Small Business Success Guide). Her strategic communications advice and application cuts through public and private sector messaging to ensure people understand organisational narratives, and get on the same page.

As an accredited senior change management practitioner and Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) facilitator, she has built a successful career around her intuitive and adaptable delivery of change and communications solutions supported by outstanding facilitation and executive coaching acumen and her ability to focus on the things that really matter.

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Shona is committed to delivering projects and programs that optimise business performance. Her instructional design prowess helps boost professional knowledge, people outcomes and inspire workplaces to achieve strategic priorities.

With a background in health and business management, she designs operating procedures and user-focused training materials that support small and large-scale projects, including the use of the creative mind to inspire innovation, management system, and security platform upgrade implementations. Her outstanding productivity and growth. The ability to analyse complex people-focused and technical problems and develop actionable solutions to meet business requirements sets her apart from other project professionals.

Shona has extensive experience implementing business transitions and Machinery of Government changes for Commonwealth agencies and provides professional advice to stakeholders and collaborating across industries. Information management solutions and
project delivery are her current focus.

Shona is also an active Justice of the Peace in the ACT.

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Dr Elissa Farrow is a futurist, author, facilitator, professional coach and strategist. She has
over 25 years’ experience in research, organisational innovation, design, adaptation and
benefits realisation. and has extensive experience in strategic organisational adaptation
design and delivery. Elissa has empowered organisations to envision positive futures and
successfully transform to achieve lasting benefits.

Widely recognised as a thought leader in her field, Elissa’s published doctoral research
explored the implications of Artificial Intelligence on workplaces of the future.

Dr Farrow is an Adjunct Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She is an experienced
board director, and has held global leadership positions with the Change Management
Institute as well as past chair of DVConnect a service preventing Domestic and Family
Violence in Queensland.

She’s received national recognition in Australia for her contributions to Women in Project
Management through Project Management Institute and for her research with the
Association of Professional Futurists.

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Ash is passionate about systems thinking, building great cultures and business teams. He is also a self-confessed positive change vigilante.

Currently based in Europe, Ash partners with Mindavation to consult on ways for companies to simplify and enhance systems and ways of working, improve team culture, moral, increase productivity and efficiency.

Ash has over 20 years’ transformation experience and held senior consultant and management roles across a range of industry sectors, based globally, metropolitan and
regionally. These industries include not-for-profit, health, State Government, rail, software and engineering development, telecommunications, defence, aviation, higher education and ICT.

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