Associates

Juan Aguilera

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Executive Coach
Masters of Business Adminstration, Masters in Coaching and Human Resources

Juan Aguilera is an executive coach, facilitator and lecturer in coaching, leadership and culture change. Juan has a wealth of commercial experience which enables him to understand the business context of his clients. After the completion of his MBA, he worked as part of the executive team responsible for the growth of a new venture from 3 people to 150, in less than 18 months, doubling the revenue target from US$5M to US$ 10M, in the same period.

In Venezuela he ran his own company installing satellite dishes and is currently director of his own property investment trust in Australia. He also has experience in business development having worked for De La Rue, a FTSE 250 corporation, driving growth in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. He has experienced first hand working in complex, multicultural, matrix organisations, with multiple reporting lines.

Juan has in depth knowledge in the area of coaching, facilitation and culture change, having completed a Masters in Coaching and Human Resources. He has lectured about executive coaching at IESA, one of the top business schools in South America.

Juan is currently Managing Director of The Crucial Quarter and an associate of Ensemble Partners. He has extensive experience working with individuals and organisations to create changes, increase performance and achieve goals. His clients range from large organisations such as Lion Nathan, AMP and NAB through to not for profit organisations working in the area of social justice.

His interest in human potential has led him to complete 8 marathons, one ultra marathon and ascents to mountains over 5,000 metres.

Andrew Wilford (Wilf)

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Associate
Clinical Associate Professor of Project Management, BE (Electronics), Grad Dip Bus Studies, FIEAust, MAIPM, Fellow ICCPM.

Wilf has enjoyed a long career in the Aerospace and Defence sectors, holding senior positions with Boeing Australia and Air New Zealand. Prior to this Wilf cut his teeth as an Engineering Officer with the RAAF.

He has been involved with the development of the Complex Project Management Competency Standards that have been adopted by the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation and is an active Fellow of the International Centre for Complex Project Management. He was also part of the team that developed the Australian Institute of Project Management’s new National Competency Standards. Wilf is also an Australian Business Excellence Framework evaluator.

Currently as a Clinical Associate Professor of Project Management at Bond University’s Mirvac School of Sustainable Development, Wilf is researching project management capability models, leadership systems, complex network-centric operations and the application of sustainability principles in project management. Wilf has consulted widely on Leadership Capability, Project Management Maturity and Organisational Effectiveness. Recently Wilf has facilitated a national Climate change Emergency Summit, developed and conducted an organisational Leadership Exploration and Adaptation Program and coached senior leaders from large infrastructure and construction/development companies.

Gordon Dunbar

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Consultant (Mining, Strategy and IT)
Dip Bus. B.Bus, Grad.Dip Bus & Admin

Gordon Dunbar has an extensive and diverse work experience spanning the disciplines of finance, marketing, information technology, strategy, asset management and more recently, the development of an online asset sharing system (www.cynf.com).

The various roles have involved both Australia-wide and international experience predominantly in mining but including the entertainment sector.

His forte is in developing compelling business cases which demonstrate the quantifiable value of optimising throughput at the constraint (amongst other things) and rethinking information systems (ERP’s) architecture in order to institutionalise the five focussing steps.

Gordon was an atheist before becoming aware of TOC in 1992.

Bill Dettmer

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Associate
Bachelor of Arts, Masters of Science

Author of Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (ASQ Quality Press, 1997) and Breaking the Constraints to World-Class Performance (ASQ Quality Press, 1998), Strategic Navigation (ASQ Quality Press, 2003), and Brainpower Networking Using the Crawford Slip Method (Trafford, 2003). Co-author (with Eli Schragenheim) of Manufacturing at Warp Speed (CRC St. Lucie Press, 2000).

Twenty-three years' experience in military operations, logistics, strategic planning, operational planning, training, large-scale systems deployment, project management, and contracting.

Eight years graduate level teaching of systems management, systems analysis, human factors, management control systems, organisational behaviour and development, Theory of Constraints, Total Quality Management, and management of research, development, testing, and evaluation.

B.A., Rutgers University; M.S., University of Southern California, 1982. Adjunct faculty, University of Southern California, 1988-1996.