Key Skills:
- Executive level management in complex service delivery environments.
- Strategy and change leadership.
- Purchasing, procurement and contracts.
- Relationship management and stakeholder engagement.
- Politically savvy.
Maria is an experienced leader driven to make a difference. She offers strong strategic and operational leadership, coupled with change management experience which has been gathered across a range of sectors. Maria has led change programmes to improve outcomes for those at the heart of the service – from developing strategy, design, to business models and bringing about real change to improving how service is delivered.
Maria has strong relationship management and influencing skills, and proficient at engaging and relating with customers, stakeholders, funders and staff. She is a future thinking and lateral connector, and sees things as a system. This means she is able to spot opportunities, and brings people with her on the journey.
Maria thrives in complex environments, is able to develop strategy and translate this to delivery. She is often referred to as “a safe pair of hands” having managed high profile operational incidents and can be relied upon to deliver.
Qualifications
- MA (Applied) Criminology, Victoria University
- B.Soc.Sc (Cross Cultural Psychology), University of Waikato
- Leading for Strategic Success, Melbourne Business School, Mt Eliza Executive - (5 day residential programme)