World Cafe Facilitator: Judi Anderson
Judi has many years experience in management, human resource development, organisation development, executive coaching, recruitment, career and performance management, career development and outplacement across private and public sector organisations. Her experience has been gained through line management and human resource development roles, together with twelve years experience in consulting.
Judi's early experience included six years as a wine consultant and retail manager with Crittenden's Wine Merchants, and seven years at Myer Stores. At Myer Stores her roles included store management and human resources, and she was also Regional Training and Development Manager for the Melbourne and suburban stores. Judi has worked for the Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, where she designed and co-ordinated learning programs.
Using her management and human resources background, Judi began consulting in 1985, focusing particularly on human resource development, executive coaching and executive recruitment.
In 1991, Judi re-joined Myer Grace Bros. as General Manager Personnel, Retail Operations, a role responsible for human resources issues relating to 28,000 employees across Australia. In 1994 Judi returned to Consulting in her own company, Judi Anderson & Associates
In 1999, Judi worked in Asia delivering an intensive assessment and interviewing program to human resource executives and managers in one of the world’s leading international banks.
Judi joined the Waite Group in February, 2000 as Senior Account Director of the Waite Career Centre. In December, 2003, she was promoted to Associate Director of the Career Centre – including Outplacement/Career Transition, Executive Coaching and Leadership programs as well as overseeing the Steps programs, in-house programs and developmental workshops. She is also a skilled Facilitator of large and small groups, including where there are groups in conflict or where groups are seeking common ground in complex environments.
In March, 2006, while maintaining an ongoing relationship with the Waite Group, Judi returned to her own consulting business, Judi Anderson & Associates, in which she provides consulting services to organisations in the public and private sectors in the following areas:
- Developing organisational effectiveness and robust cultures (HR & OD)
- Executive Coaching & Mentoring
- Career development and Outplacement
- Workplace mediation and conciliation
- Executive & Board Development, including governance, board reviews, board culture
Group Facilitation, using a variety of techniques to work with groups of all sizes, to help
people engage in, manage and cope effectively and creatively with all of the changes that
surround them.
Judi’s formal qualifications include an Associate Diploma of Marketing and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Careers Counselling. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australian Institute of Management, OD Australia, the Career Development Association of Australia, the Australasian Facilitators Network. Her community involvements include being the current President of the Board of Relationships Australia (Victoria), the Strategy Committee of the Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society at Melbourne University, and the Confrérie des Chevaliers dû Tastevin.
On-the-Couch Facilitator: Kate Southam
Kate is the founding editor of CareerOne.com.au, News Limited's national employment website. The site is owned by the Careers Digital Media division of News Digital Media – News Ltd’s online arm.
Kate is also a columnist and blogger. Her weekly career advice column Ask Kate is published online and in more than 100 News Ltd newspapers around Australia and her Blog, Hard@Work is hosted on the news.com.au platform. She is also a regular radio guest, magazine and website contributor and occasional television guest on career and employment issues.
A former news journalist, Kate started her professional life as a cadet journalist at Fairfax. She reported for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong for four years before moving to London and working as a court reporter and general news reporter for wire services and newspapers. In Australia she has also been the environment writer for the Sydney Morning Herald; reported on indigenous affairs, rural news and the environment for ABC Radio, North Queensland and was a general news reporter for ninemsn reporting on the Waterfront industrial dispute amongst other stories.