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Case studies available across energy, pharmaceuticals, media, professional services and infrastructure.
Marine construction: A safety turnaround
Industry: Oil & Gas · Energy · Major Infrastructure
THE SITUATION
A marine construction contractor on one of the world's largest oil and gas project faced critical safety performance issues, including two fatalities and twelve serious injuries within a year. Their contract was at risk due to deteriorating safety in an environment of heavy energized equipment operating over water with a complex, multinational workforce.
ANTHONY'S ADVISORY ROLE
Anthony led the diagnostic and strategic response, designing and implementing a comprehensive intervention. This included real-time risk scenario exercises to enhance collaboration and front-line leadership engagement, redesigned induction and onboarding with a focus on cross-cultural understanding, and coaching the senior leadership team on critical risk ownership. A competitive team-based risk perception exercise further reinforced the new safety culture.
OUTCOMES
✓ 200,000 man hours completed with zero incidents
✓ 79% reduction in LTIFR severity rate
✓ Project completed ahead of schedule and under budget
✓ Company awarded 'most effective contractor' by the multinational Oil & Gas client — reversing near-removal at project outset
Empowering c-suite and boards
CONSUMER HEALTHCARE | CRISIS & TRANSFORMATION
Industry: Pharmaceutical & Consumer Healthcare · Listed Multinational
THE SITUATION
An Australian consumer healthcare operation faced a compounding crisis. Logistics failures coincided with the outsourcing of manufacturing — including a factory closure — creating serious internal disruption at precisely the moment the business needed to be outward-facing. Client dissatisfaction was rising, market share was being lost to key competitors, and jobs were at risk. The pressure on the leadership team was acute.
ANTHONY'S ADVISORY ROLE
Anthony coached the Australasia board directly, ran senior executive sessions on change management, and completely re-conceived the end-to-end sales process. He identified that the existing process was unfit for the changed operational reality and that no motivational intervention would compensate for a broken system. The redesign addressed both internal mechanics and client-facing experience, rebuilding trust with customers while restoring confidence inside the sales organisation.
OUTCOMES
✓ Increased sales following implementation of the redesigned process
✓ Significant improvement in client retention and satisfaction
✓ Improved internal engagement and team cohesion
✓ Jobs saved that had been at risk during the crisis
✓ Leadership team equipped to manage ongoing transition
Strategic technology integration
STATE ELECTRICITY PROVIDER | LEADERSHIP AT SCALE
Industry: Energy & Utilities · Infrastructure · Public Sector
THE SITUATION
A newly amalgamated state electricity provider required rapid mobilisation of a large, geographically dispersed workforce. The newly formed leadership cohort was inexperienced in complex, high-risk project environments and technology integration. The result: poor risk based decision making, high leadership churn, a dysfunctional culture and failed technology implementation.
ANTHONY'S ADVISORY ROLE
Anthony designed and led a layered leadership development programme spanning senior executives to operational site supervisors — over 2,000 people. He delivered senior executive coaching directly and trained internal risk and ambassadors to embed the change programme sustainably. The fundamental shift: from a process-driven approach to risk toward a mindset and behaviour-based approach where people own outcomes and use technology as an enabler.
OUTCOMES
✓ Zero unplanned shutdowns for at least 18 months following the programme
✓ Significant decrease in incidents at all levels
✓ Dramatic improvement in staff retention
✓ Increased overall business culture engagement score
✓ Successful transition to self-managed technology systems use
"From the offset Anthony impressed me with his keen insight into our management team and its processes, and his ability to converse with wisdom and restraint one-on-one. Over the years that have followed, I’ve worked with Anthony many times, most recently when at BWM Dentsu."
Murray White Founding Partner CBW