Biodata of Bill Synnot
Bill (B. Ag. Sc & B. Ec.) was accepted as a candidate for a Master in Economics (Adelaide University, Australia) & approached to study for a PhD (Buckingham Uni., UK). He is widely recognised global as a leading consultant specialising in change management and is an experienced public speaker, trainer, mentor/executive coach, meditator, author, facilitator & reviewer.
His firm is recognised & acknowledged as one of the top 10 change management organisations in APAC & Best Specialist Change Management Consultancy (Australia).
He has co-authored a best-selling management book (The Toolbox for Change: a practical approach) & has developed an online knowledge base (KB) (with generativeAI Chatbot) on organisational change management based on real world experience gained through working with 100s oforganisations world-wide. KB is 3,000+ pages with 1 million + words & covers the background to change, 200+ frameworks, 400+ techniques, 3,500+ references; the KB currently has 300,000+ users. Bill’s work is regularly cited in journals, etc.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, he has conducted webinars/podcasts with the likes of Change Management Review (CMR), Nuffield Group & Change Management Institute (CMI), Queensland Uni. of Technology (QUT).
He has partnered with tertiary institutions like Uni. of South Pacific (Fiji), Bond Uni., Uni of Queensland, QUT, Griffith Uni., Charles Sturt Uni., Solomons Uni. & Australian TAFEs.
In addition to Australia, he has lived and/or worked across the globe including USA, Europe, Asia, Pacific, Indian sub-continent & the Middle East. In some years averaging around 12 overseas work trips.
His firm embodies the virtual organisational concept with 700+ clients world-wide in the private (including global, multi-national, national, regional, local, family & corporate, etc), public (including national, state, regional & local government), professional (including HR, accountants, change management, conservationists), educational (including universities, primary & secondary schools, etc), co-operatives (including rural, agricultural, disability, etc) & not-for-profit (including Indigenous, charities like in the philanthropic & disabilities sector, community organisations providing services to the sick, elderly, etc.)
Since the mid-1990s he has conducted public & in-house training session on organisational change management & associated topics including project management, business model review, creating high performing organisations, strategic change leadership, etc. The public training sessions are conducted Australia-wide & internationally. For some of these sessions Bill partnered with universities (see above), Clayton Utz, CMI, CMR, KMS Training, Training & Productivity Authority (Fiji), Asian Productivity Organisation (Japan), Polson Training, Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Pacific TAFE, etc. People attending & benefitting from these training sessions include chairpersons, directors, CEOs & senior management, change agents/professionals/practitioners, consultants, HR practitioners, etc from hundreds of world-wide, leading organisations covering all sectors. Many organisations have sent multiple representatives on repeated occasions.
Furthermore, he has conducted reviews (organisational/business, etc), facilitated planning (strategic, corporate, scenario, business, etc), conducted mentor/executive coaching (including cross-cultural), facilitated creative thinking, initiated social entrepreneurship, mediated conflict resolution, developed teams, installed ‘soft skills’, made futurist predictions, conducted feasibility studies, facilitated cultural awareness programs, conducted market research & surveys, etc.
He is regularly invited to contribute/present to professional journals/conferences (including international) on a range of topics including Change Management, Impact of Global Issues, Strategic Planning, Cultural Diversity, Time Management, Talent Management, Personal Development & Growth, etc. Some of these conferences were organised by universities (see above); CMI; CMR; Association of Change Management Professionals; Whole of Qld Government, Community of Practice; Prosci; Aust. Soc. of Cert. Practising Accountants (Qld); Australian Disability Employment Services; Australasian Facilitators’ Network; Australian Fleet Management Association (AfMA); Local Government Association of Qld; International Co-operative Alliance & Registry of Co-operatives; NSW Federation of Co-operatives; Irrigation Association of Australia, Nolan Meats, Fijian HR Institute, Society of Business Communicators (Qld), Myasthenia Gravis Australia, etc.
Since 2015 he has been a business partner at QUT’s Business School. This has involved working with hundreds of post-graduate students on a range of topics. It has resulted in establishing the Goondeen Institute to help Non-Indigenous teachers introduce First Nations perspective into Australian schools.
He has been married for 40+ years and has 2 adult sons; he is a carer for his wife who has a rare auto-immune disease.
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CSU Organisational Change and Renewal Framework
...To model good change management and consultative practice, the framework was developed in consultation with over eighty (80) senior and middle managers at CSU, using the outcomes of a workshop facilitated in September 2007 with senior managers by Bill Synnot, a well-known consultant on organisational transition in Australasia...
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Leading and Facilitating Change
The Eight Dimensions for Effective Organisational Change and Renewal
for the full article download the pdf here Leading People BKCM208.pdf
A Framework for Managing Change at Charles Sturt University
What is change and why manage change? Sharing some positive stories.....
for the full article download the pdf here Managing Change Conference (ATEM 08).pdf
Contextualising the CMMC Principles, Models & Frameworks
Presentation on Contextualising the CMMC Principles, Models, Tools & Frameworks for the Solomon Islands Public Service .....
for the full article download the pdf here SI_Sirf_Contextualising_the_CMMC_Principles_Models__Frameworks__28_Mar_2019.pdf