John Sharp Principal

John Sharp is a high performance coach facilitator with a wealth of experience. John has facilitated breakthroughs in interpersonal relationships & behaviours and inter-team relationships in some of Australia’s largest companies as well as a number of major overseas organisations. John has particular expertise and insights in bringing people together around a common goal; creating connections. A key feature of John’s style is to explore ‘what is possible’ and build on ‘what is working’, transcending traditional ‘problem solving’.

John has over 40 years experience in industry, including oil and gas and shipping and stevedoring both in Australia and overseas.

John’s facilitative style and interest in personal and organisational change emerged throughout his career. Whilst engaged in the stevedoring industry he facilitated and managed a significant organisational change program which generated extensive behavioural change amongst staff members, improved employee management relations and generated a profit. He was later a lead facilitator on Woodside Energy‘s Performance Leadership program and went on to facilitate similar corporate transformation programs with other major Australian and overseas organisations

He also has extensive experience in designing and facilitating Health & safety initiatives and was instrumental in creating Woodside Energy’s Health, Safety & Environment competence model. He has developed a number of world-class behavioural based training programs to deliver those competences. He also has considerable experience in Industrial Accident Investigation and has worked as a consultant in this area with companies around the world including Shell, Petronas, Anglo Gold, Basel Chemicals, New Zealand Refining Company, Woodside Energy, Sinclair Knight Merz, John Holland & Mermaid Marine.

John’s management, industry background and experience provide a genuine appreciation of our clients’ issues. As well as the roles outlined above, John’s last management assignment in the oil and gas industry was at the BP Hides Gasfield in Papua New Guinea where he was the Joint Operations Manager for BP and also the client representative in the commissioning and handover phase of this E.P.C.M. contract with then Kinhill Holdings (now KBR). After that, John played a significant role in the implementation phase of the Transfield-Worley /Woodside Energy Alliance at Woodside’s Karratha Gas Plant.

Some of the engagements John has successfully supported include:

Intentional Leadership

• Facilitating a Union /Management Leadership workshop for a major coal producer in South Africa
• Facilitating a strategic Alliance Leadership Team members summit for a major utilities organisation

Alignment

• Facilitating the visioning and relaunch workshops for the an Alliance between a Controls Development & Deployment company and a major utilities organisation
• Facilitation and Team & Personal coaching of the Strategic Alliance Leadership and Integrated Project Management Teams for the Strategic Indigenous Housing Improvement Program

Executive Coaching

• Team & Personal coaching for the Project Director Team at a major utilities organisation
• Executive Coaching Emerging Leaders for a major construction company

Intentional Relationships & Collaborative Contracting

• Facilitating a collaborative approach to working in a Design & Construct contract environment with a significant road Project for a government department in South Australia

Transformational Facilitation

• Facilitating McKinsey & Company Mindsets & Capabilities program (with Fortune 500 companies)
• Facilitating Woodside’s Energy Ltd Performance Leadership program
• Coordinating & facilitating Australian Iron & Steel’s Grid Management program

Appreciative Inquiry

• Facilitating an Appreciative Inquiry into “High Quality Culturally Diverse Relationships in the Workplace” for a major coal producer in South Africa
• Facilitating a sequence of Appreciative Inquiries into “High Performing Safety Cultures” for a major Construction Company

Industrial Accident Investigation & Training

• Developing and implementing Woodside Energy’s Health & Safety Competence program
• Developing and facilitating Stichting Tripod Foundation’s Industrial Accident Investigation Practitioner & Trainer Accreditation scheme

Results Facilitation

• Facilitating the launch and intentional relationships workshops with a variety of teams within Pipelines & Pump Stations Partnership
• Facilitating an issues resolution meeting between the management and residents of Pelican Point Golf Estate

Management & Supervision

• Managing the Hides Gas production & processing plant in New Guinea
• Supervising both Shift and different productions Areas for BP Oil Refinery in Western Australia
• Shore Stevedoring for Australian Iron & Steel in Western Australia
• Navigating and Shipboard Stevedoring for Port Line Ltd, Shipping Company, UK

Qualifications

• Accredited Facilitator Life Styles Inventory
  (Human Synergistics, Sydney, Australia)
• Diploma of Professional Coaching
  (W.A Coach School on behalf of International Coaching Federation)
• Accredited Facilitator Appreciative Inquiry
  (The Company of Experts, Palm Springs, USA)
• Accredited Facilitator /Practitioner Spiral Dynamics Integral
  (The Organisational Development Group, Melbourne, Victoria)
• Accredited Lead Facilitator in Organisational Transformation
  (Gita Bellin & Associates, on behalf of McKinsey & Company, Sydney, NSW)
• Certificate IV Training & Assessment
  (Australian Institute of Management, Perth WA)
• Accredited Tripod Beta Trainer
  (The Stichting Tripod Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Accredited Tripod Assessor
  (The Stichting Tripod Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Executive Certificate of Occupational Safety & Hygiene
  (Edith Cowan University, Perth WA)