About Ken Pritchett - KPA v1

Ken Pritchett is a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Commerce (Organisation Behaviour).

After his studies Ken travelled extensively (both on his own and with work) which led to his great interests in culture and organisation - the people side of business.

Ken had a 20 year corporate career with AMATIL Limited where he worked initially as a commercial lawyer, then as Executive Assistant to the Chairman/MD and finishing as the Head of Human Resources. Ken distinguished himself with his commercial, thoughtful and independent advice and his progressive approach to the modernising of that company.  Over the last 5 years there Ken planned and implemented a major culture change involving the remodelling of the major people systems -
    performance,
    reward/recognition,
    management development,
    superannuation and
    employee relations.

Underlying all this was a framework for aligning these systems to the emergent radical startegy and a new set of active values.

These learnings were then applied as a consultant where Ken was a key advisor to several major corporate change programs - including ESSO's head office move to Melbourne, the set up of the successful bid team for Optus, the strategic turnaround of James Hardie's Building Boards Division. Ken's role was to be "part" of the Executive Team advising/coaching the Executives in how to plan and implement the changes.

From 1992-2000 Ken served three terms on the Quarantine Export Advisory Council overseeing the commercialisation of the Australian Quarantine & Inspection Service. There Ken played a major role working with AQIS to redefine the realtionships with, and reevaluating its programs for, its major Primary Industry clients. This gave Ken major exposure to the Public Sector and how it works.

Ken was also the Executive Director of the Human Resource Leadership Forum - a members only HR Directors group of Australia's top 25 employers.

Since 2005 Ken has moved his attention from large organisations to working more with smaller organisations, Boards and coaching executives.