Coaching Profile

Rod Griffiths

BSc Engineering and Science (Manchester, 1967), Dip Business Administration (Manchester, 1972), MA Systems in Management (Lancaster, 1973), MA Complexity and Creativity (Western Sydney, 2009)

Rod Griffiths is a highly experienced management consultant, coach and facilitator. His expertise covers strategy, systems, organisational performance and personal performance. He has worked with a wide range of clients in Australia, the UK and the Middle East. Specific experience covers strategic and scenario planning, business modelling, information management, leadership development, management systems and personal mastery.

He grew up and was educated to Master’s level in the UK. Initially, through an industrial scholarship, he studied science and engineering at University and later studied at Manchester Business School and Lancaster University Management School.

He cut his teeth in consultancy with McKinsey and Company in London in the 1970’s. Following that, whilst still based in London, he became Managing Director of a University owned consultancy at Lancaster Management School. Whilst working with Shell International in London and The Hague, Rod was asked to lead an internal strategy team at Woodside Offshore Petroleum in Perth. This resulted in Rod moving to Perth in 1987 where he has worked in the petroleum and mining industries as well as the public sector. Rod is accredited in several diagnostic tools with respect to leadership, organisational culture and values.

Through his work he has helped clients to: 

• Shift mindsets that have limited organisational and individual performance through coaching and workshops. These have enabled people to expand the range of external business scenarios and strategies in business planning; explore alternative worldviews relating to purpose – both personally and of business systems, and including corporate ecology.
• Manage complexity through adopting integrated thinking. Clients see how the workings of complex systems can be expressed simply to reveal insights on the key drivers of outcomes – including those that are counter-intuitive to individuals.
• Develop a performance edge through building personal capabilities that balance leadership and management 
  Understand organisational dynamics so that individuals appreciate the implications of their behaviours and how these can inspire or conspire to foster intended or unintended consequences.
• Implement Management Systems using principles that foster a balance between trust and control in achieving business performance and governance.

Clients describe Rod as “strong on creating accountability.”