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K2 - Amanda Deverich
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Speciality Area: Executive Recruitment & Accelerated Leadership Onboarding
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Amanda Deverich, ceo and founder of ABN-c, is a proven leader with vision and excellent stakeholder engagement. She has extensive experience in leading the delivery of faster and better results for Australia’s iconic organisations - Qantas Frequent Flyer, CommSec, Telstra and multi-nationals, Egon Zehnder International, SingTel Optus, Hutchison 3G, NEC and Fujitsu.
As CFO for Egon Zehnder International, her recruitment experience combines executive search understanding with more contemporary approach to executive recruitment in looking beyond the placement. With the recent acquisition of the K2 franchise, ABN-c now offers a comprehesive service in both leadership placement and on-boarding.
With over 12 years exeperience in leading successful delivery of products to market, faster and better and recently with Australia’s leading loyalty organisation Qantas Frequent Flyer. The relaunch of the Qantas Frequently Flyer Loyalty program and key strategic initiatives have helped Qantas maintain its investment-grade rating and consistency in being the biggest contributor to Qantas’ earnings.
Her core strength is in business and market strategy development, leading cross-functional teams to deliver faster and better business outcomes, corporate governance, commercial and business operations management. Leading projects from start to finish, including development of the opportunity, strategy development, stakeholder engagement, securing funding, solution development, relationship management and execution through complex matrix structures to match the right resources to the right task.
Her expertise in leadership and strategy execution has been acquired from over 15 years of hands–on commercial experience and complemented with a degree in commerce and an MBA from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) Research have demonstrated that “40% of executives hired at the senior level are pushed out, fail or quit within 18 months. It’s expensive in terms of lost revenue. It’s expensive in terms of the individual’s hiring. It’s damaging to morale”. Brooke Masters in “Rise of a headhunter” Financial Times, March 30, 2009.
Our approach in executive onboarding has proven to reduce the failure rate to as little as 10%. We prepare the executive in advance to hit the ground running from day one, then accelerate leaders and their teams through 100-Day Action Plans. The approach is not new, it’s the content and assistance of experienced partners at ABN-c that makes the difference.
Our bold and no nonsense approach will help you tackle and resolve the “elephant in the room” issues.