Julianne Kennedy

Executive summary

Julianne is a Partner in BDO’s People Advisory team in Brisbane. She is dedicated to helping clients harness and future-proof their workforce as part of an integrated business strategy. With over 18 years’ consulting experience in the UK, US, Europe, Africa, India, New Zealand, and Australia, Julianne has supported both public and private sector clients with a broad range of workforce issues. Her expertise includes overseeing large-scale change programs, developing new operating models, and designing organisational structures that help clients encourage adoption, improve efficiencies, realign ways of working, or reduce cost.

Julianne’s experience also includes defining future workforce requirements and developing strategies to help acquire, retain, develop, and engage talent critical to business needs. She is passionate about driving behavioural change and helping clients achieve critical strategic outcomes through their workforces.

Expertise

• Strategic workforce planning
• Organisational design
• Change management
• Leadership strategy
• Capability and culture
• Service transformation
• Operating model review and design
• People stream within transformations

Experience

Strategic workforce planning

• Co-led an investigation into the impact and effectiveness of a federal government department’s human resources, contributing to policy improvements that enhanced service access and equity across Australia
• Designed a major bank’s strategic workforce plan, workforce planning tool, and enterprise-wide strategic workforce planning framework.

Organisational design

• Led a comprehensive organisational structure and resourcing review for a state government agency, developing strategic solutions to complex operational challenges
• Reviewed a large aged care provider’s vision and operating model, creating plans to align staff actions with their 2030 vision and strategy.

Change management

• Led a team supporting a state government department’s organisational change management program for an ICT implementation affecting over 1,000 employees
• Helped a major insurer implement their evolved data strategy, including developing their change vision, narrative, strategy, and plan.

Leadership strategy

• Helped a large not-for-profit define the leadership capabilities required for their future business needs.

Capability

• Designed and implemented a future-proofed performance management system for a state government committee, including resources for employees and managers
• Led the design and delivery of management essentials training for a large state government agency, overseeing a pool of training facilitators.

Culture

• Led the design of an engagement survey for a local council, ensuring alignment with psychosocial assessments and modernising demographic questions
• Designed and facilitated interactive team coaching culture sessions for a global financial services company’s leadership and management team.

Operating model review and design

• Led the rapid conceptual design of a state government department’s target operating model, engaging with executive stakeholders and leading all workshops and outputs
• Developed future state operating model options for a state government department to enable new functions, services, and capabilities for effective and sustainable operations.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Education (Information Technology)
• Qualified teacher
• Advanced Certificate in Learning and Development
• Certified Leadership Team Diagnostic - Advanced Practitioner
• Fellow, University of the First Age

Professional engagements and activities

• Keynote: Challenges & Obstacles That Shape Us, UQBA Women in Business Conference, 2024
• Keynote: Future of the Australian Public Sector Workforce, Public Sector Network HR Innovation Roadshow, 2024