Brent Sheridan
CEO & Managing Director
Brent is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at the Centre for Applied Transformation. Brent has deep experience in the mining and metals and energy sectors where he has extensive experience as an organisational development consultant and implementation partner.
Beyond these industrial sectors, Brent also has extensive consulting experience across banking and financial services, large-scale state infrastructure, local government, and FMCG. He has experience in operational excellence, organisational transformation, and leadership and cultural development. He is passionate about supporting his clients to solve their toughest problems.
His recent projects have included:
- High-Performance Culture and Collaborative Decision Making: Working alongside the CEO and senior team of a major metals organisation to reset their behaviours and culture to one of collaboration and trust after a long period of operational instability and cultural ineffectiveness.
- Interpersonal Leadership Skills Development : Working with the executive team of a local government council to create new ways of working, leading, organising to be more effective, and delivering value to constituents.
- Adaptive Capacity Development: Supporting 3 divisional GMs and their executive teams in a global FMCG organisation to establish cultural and behavioural foundations for high-performance in preparation for a major global reorganising.
- Organizational Complexity and Role and Cross-Functional Working: A co-designed process including restructuring advice, education and skilling, and executive facilitation of decision-making to align functional divisions of a major insurer to digitally redesign the entire business.
- Systemic Alignment and Integration and Operational Effectiveness and Adaptability: Educating, skilling and facilitating the senior executive team of a major transport infrastructure operator and provider, to redesign their overall business operating model to improve construction project delivery, operational excellence, and improve customer outcomes.
Brent has a deep passion for community and social cohesion and has works with local NFP organisations. He is a Management Committee member of Bridge for Asylum Seekers and has been a board member of similar organisations in the past.
Prior to founding the Centre for Applied Transformation, Brent had several consulting businesses, both small companies and as a sole trader. He was a core member of a boutique transformation consulting practice. Prior to this, Brent worked in senior Learning and Development, Organisational Effectiveness, and Leadership Development roles in Commonwealth Bank in Australia.
Brent has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Psychoanalytic Thought (Hons) from the University of Toronto and has undertaken post graduate studies in Gestalt Psychotherapy, Human Resources, Frontline Management, and Training and Assessment.