Experience

Garth's professional experience was gained in a 20 year career with Nestle, initially in marketing, then in general management. His most recent role was as General Director and Senior Vice-President, Perrier-Vittel SA (now Nestle waters), based in Paris. There he had responsibility for the management and development of the Nestle bottled water business in Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Middle East.

Garth has extensive international experience, particularly in Asia, including China. He has been involved in strategy development and change management, evaluating acquisitions and building leadership capability. He has a deep and practical understanding of the challenges of managing across cultures, both for individuals and organisations; of building effective teams across cultural and geographic boundaries, and developing leaders who can operate in diverse and difficult conditions.

Garth's doctoral research developed a dynamic model of cultural interactions within organisations. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a number of other professional and academic associations. He maintains an active research program, consults in organisational change, strategy and leadership development and teaches a variety of management disciplines.

Garth's coaching practice has included assignments on leading change; bridging peer manager conflict; building manager confidence and capability to progress to higher levels; and dealing with difficult performance feedback. He has also co-developed and delivered new approaches to the use of group coaching programs in support of broad organisational change objectives.

 

Coaching & behavioural science qualifications

• Certificate IV in Assessment and workplace Training, Canberra Institute of Technology, 2003
  
• Negotiation Dynamics, INSEAD Singapore, 2000

Business qualifications and business experience (selected)

• PhD, Australian National University, 2007
  
• Graduate Diploma Professional Communication (Professional writing), university of Canberra, 2002
  
• Seminar for Senior Executives, IMD ,Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996
  
• MBA (distinction),INSEAD France, 1982
  
• Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics and Anthropology, Australian National University, 1978
  
• General Director, Senior Vice-President Zone Asia, Oceania, Africa, Perrier-Vittel SA, Paris, France
  
• Managing Director, Nestle Taiwan Group, Taipei, Taiwan
  
• Regional Assistant, Nestle SA, Vevey, Switzerland
  
• Marketing Manager Grocery 1 Business unit, Nestle Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  
• Marketing Manager, Nestle Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand

Selected client companies

Clients include: Department of Defence, NEC, Australian Customs and Border Protection.

Registrations, Memberships and Affiliations

• Fellow, Australian Institute of Management (AIM)
  
• Member, International Association of Coaching
  
• Member, International Research Society for Public Management
  
• Member, European Group of Organisational Studies
  
• Member, Academy of Management
  
• Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)