John Campbell has been helping groups learn all his professional life having worked as a teacher, community educator, consultant, family counsellor, corporate trainer and facilitator.

Since 1991 he has been principal consultant at Focalpoint Organisation Development Pty Ltd where he works with management groups facilitating the development of strategic planning and cultural change programs. In particular he specialises in helping business units and teams improve performance to achieve 'next level' results.

Training programs he leads focus on helping teams "think" better together by developing skills in rational and creative problem solving and in group communication processes.

During the last ten years John has designed and facilitated hundreds of workshops throughout Australia and in New Zealand, Singapore, China, Korea, Malaysia, and the United States.

He has been a featured presenter at conferences in both Australia and the United States. (Quality Society state conference, AITD national conference Australia; Creative Training Techniques national conference USA). Recently he was the keynote speaker at the Malaysia Assurance Association national sales conference in KL Malaysia.

One of the workshops he co-authored, Team Focus™, has been published in the United States where it has been used extensively by organisations such as John Deere, Medtronic, Beckman Instruments.

He has had articles published in Plantline journal and he writes regularly for the international edition of the Results Newsletter.

Early consulting experiences tended to focus on team and management development training and consisted of designing and leading workshops at all levels of client organisations but more recent projects have involved facilitating strategic and business planning programs with senior management and functional management teams. .

Education:

• BA Dip Ed - Macquarie University
• Grad Dip Counselling - Aust Catholic University
• Grad Dip Communication Management - UTS
• M App Science - UTS

Professional Associations:

• Member American Society of Training & Development
• Member Australian Institute of Management (Associate Fellow)

Specialist Skills:

• Performance improvement: at the department/team level particularly for under performing groups.
• Leadership and management development: from executive level to shop floor team leaders.
  
  
• Facilitation:
  
  
• Team development: of all kinds and at all levels, especially team and group problem solving and decision making.
  
  
• Individual and team coaching:

Industry Experience:

• Manufacturing & Mining: John has led strategic and business planning sessions as well as leadership and team development programs with organisations such as Dow Corning, Nestle, APS Chemicals, John Deere, RGC, West Australian Mineral Sands, Shell, Alcatel Submarine Networks, 3M, Schefenacker Vision Systems, Drayton Coal, Dyno Nobel, Holden.
  
  A recent project involved leading the implementation of problem solving skills development project within manufacturing plants in Dow Corning Korea and China.
  
  
• Finance: John has designed and developed management and team development projects in this sector with organisations such as MLC, Westpac, ANZ, BT Financial Group, MAA (Malaysia Assurance Alliance).
  
  A recent project involved management and personal development programs with top performing sales people within MAA in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
  
  
• Healthcare: John has designed and led customer service improvement and management development projects with Amgen, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Stryker Medical.
  
  A recent project involved working to develop decision making skills within the senior management team at Amgen Australia .
  
  
• Information Technology:In this industry sector John has led management development programs and projects supporting TQM initiatives within Unisys, IBM, Seagate Technology, Salmat Computing Services.
  
  
• Communications: Within this industry sector John has led business planning sessions with Yes Optus Business Mobile. He has also led management and team development at Telstra.