Andy P.

Business Transformation Leader | Turning Strategy into Delivery | Operational Excellence | Lean / TPS

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

About

Turning strategy into delivery through operational excellence. With 30+ years’ experience across government, infrastructure, industrial, and service sectors, I lead business transformation and performance improvement that delivers measurable financial and operational outcomes. My foundation was built through deep expertise in the Toyota Production System and high-performance operating environments. I have worked across public and private sectors to improve performance, strengthen capability, and embed sustainable continuous improvement. I am passionate about building people capability, creating alignment, and helping teams develop the confidence and skills to solve problems and improve the way work gets done. I bring a practical, commercially focused approach, aligning people, process, and performance to achieve sustainable results.

Experience

  • Manager Business Performance at Wyndham City Council
    Nov 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • ORBIZ (6 yrs 4 mos)
    • Principal Consultant
      Jan 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      ORBIZ are a global consulting firm who facilitate the rapid delivery of significant and sustainable improvements in performance across a diversity of industries. We facilitate turnaround, transformation and strategic improvement programs through the development and implementation of a system and culture of Lean and continuous improvement. This enables our clients to increase the effectiveness of their organisations by making them easier to manage, more flexible, more competitive and overall more profitable. Our team of industry professionals have been selected based on their extensive experience from the highest performing industries and organisations around the world and their passion and enthusiasm for engaging with people to successfully transfer that knowledge and experience. Operating across a diversity of industries our services range from the optimisation of business development systems to deliver growth, through to operating system improvements that reduce cost through improvements in safety, quality and productivity. We have a strong reputation for delivering challenging projects and significant results and we enjoy being involved in change as we are passionate about working with people and organisations to help them sustainably improve their performance. ORBIZ brings together a network of highly knowledgeable performance improvement specialists who operate across Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and the Americas to form a talented and flexible consulting and advisory team. Our consultants are experienced business professionals who have lived and breathed the philosophies of Lean and continuous improvement through successful careers with industry leading companies around the world. We have extensive experience of implementing sustainable improvement and change programs across a diversity of industries including Mining, Energy, Construction, Transport, Aerospace, Manufacturing and Healthcare.

    • Senior Consultant
      Nov 2018 - Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      ORBIZ are a global consulting firm who facilitate the rapid delivery of significant and sustainable improvements in performance across a diversity of industries. We facilitate turnaround, transformation and strategic improvement programs through the development and implementation of a system and culture of Lean and continuous improvement. This enables our clients to increase the effectiveness of their organisations by making them easier to manage, more flexible, more competitive and overall more profitable. Our team of industry professionals have been selected based on their extensive experience from the highest performing industries and organisations around the world and their passion and enthusiasm for engaging with people to successfully transfer that knowledge and experience. Operating across a diversity of industries our services range from the optimisation of business development systems to deliver growth, through to operating system improvements that reduce cost through improvements in safety, quality and productivity. We have a strong reputation for delivering challenging projects and significant results and we enjoy being involved in change as we are passionate about working with people and organisations to help them sustainably improve their performance. ORBIZ brings together a network of highly knowledgeable performance improvement specialists who operate across Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and the Americas to form a talented and flexible consulting and advisory team. Our consultants are experienced business professionals who have lived and breathed the philosophies of Lean and continuous improvement through successful careers with industry leading companies around the world. We have extensive experience of implementing sustainable improvement and change programs across a diversity of industries including Mining, Energy, Construction, Transport, Aerospace, Manufacturing and Healthcare.

    • Consultant
      Jul 2018 - Nov 2018 · 5 mos

      ORBIZ are a global consulting firm who facilitate the rapid delivery of significant and sustainable improvements in performance across a diversity of industries. We facilitate turnaround, transformation and strategic improvement programs through the development and implementation of a system and culture of Lean and continuous improvement. This enables our clients to increase the effectiveness of their organisations by making them easier to manage, more flexible, more competitive and overall more profitable. Our team of industry professionals have been selected based on their extensive experience from the highest performing industries and organisations around the world and their passion and enthusiasm for engaging with people to successfully transfer that knowledge and experience. Operating across a diversity of industries our services range from the optimisation of business development systems to deliver growth, through to operating system improvements that reduce cost through improvements in safety, quality and productivity. We have a strong reputation for delivering challenging projects and significant results and we enjoy being involved in change as we are passionate about working with people and organisations to help them sustainably improve their performance. ORBIZ brings together a network of highly knowledgeable performance improvement specialists who operate across Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and the Americas to form a talented and flexible consulting and advisory team. Our consultants are experienced business professionals who have lived and breathed the philosophies of Lean and continuous improvement through successful careers with industry leading companies around the world. We have extensive experience of implementing sustainable improvement and change programs across a diversity of industries including Mining, Energy, Construction, Transport, Aerospace, Manufacturing and Healthcare.

  • General Manager Operations at Training Practical Solutions Pty
    Jan 2018 - Jul 2018 · 7 mos

  • National Lean Advisor at The Australian Red Cross Blood Service
    Jul 2017 - Jan 2018 · 7 mos

  • Lean Consultant at KM&T
    Oct 2016 - Jul 2017 · 10 mos

    KM&T deliver bespoke business improvement solutions based on lean principles. We focus on assisting clients with the actual implementation of change, from business operating strategy to frontline management coaching and development. Our clients include leading companies in the manufacturing, mining, rail, aerospace and healthcare sectors, where we have a proven track record of driving sustainable, measurable, improvement.