Kevin Beck has extensive managerial and problem
solving experience to senior operational maangement levels and on Boards. He is contracted to provide advice, research, strategy, marketing and to manage allocated projects and activities, within clients' businesses.
Core skills are lateral thinking, ideas generation, innovation, negotiation, competition analysis and strategy implementation.
EXAMPLES, AND REFERENCES, OF THE WORK OF KEVIN BECK
- The expansion of one of Australia's leading law firms (1979)
- The restructuring of an Australian tertiary (art) education institution in Sydney,
New South Wales (1978)
Kevin Beck was a strategist, contract manager, and operations executive, for one of Australia's largest law firms, engineering their oeprational expansion from asingle office in Sydney to multiple locations across Australia, implementing physical building infrastructuire and information technology. (Sydney NSW, 1979)
Kevin Beck was a participant in the Reform of the Operation of, and Commercialisation, of Mining, Electricity
Generation,
Transmission and Distribution, in the state of Victoria (1982 - 1988) as a senior officer in the planning, and resource performance operations, of the $A30 billion electricity and mining vertically integrated tility
Kevin Beck established, and carried out, the Value Management restructuring of a large Private Health & Hospital Network
in Australia (1989) contracted as Director Organisational Development, $A100,000,000 multi-service, multi-location health and hospital business.
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Kevin Beck undertook the Reimaging of a Trade Union Branch (1991 - 1994), including establishing a new
competitive corporation, offering fee for service to energy industry enterprises.
 Volatile front line industrial relations experience
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Kevin Beck was a member of the team engaged in the Privatisation of the Electricity, and Mining, Industy in Victoria Australia, unleashing billions of dollars in value (1991 - 1994), as member of the Victorian government advisory body on privatisation of Loy Yang B power station and
negotiator strategist for the Australian Services Union Energy Branch, included extensive industrial relations negotiations, reforms and representation including representation of individuals in 140 cases before tribunals
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Kevin Beck pioneered the implementation of competition policy into the Australian vocation training and education industry. Kevin Beck
strategised, and directed, the commercialisation of an Australian Training, and Further Education, Institution (TAFE), based in Melbourne Australia,
generating millions in new
revenue streams (1994 - 1998, cumulative $A17,000,000), working as an Associate Director and Chief Executive of the institute's wholly owned corporation. Established Australian (multi-state and multi-industry), and international based (Rhode Island, South Carolina, Las Vegas - USA, Florence Italy, Ireland) alliances, and business joint ventures.
training initiatives, programme offerings and a new multinational, multicontiental, university degree programme. Developed and implemented
devised, and implemented, programmes to train, and place, 3,000 long term unemployed into hospitality and tourism careers,
under Australian government sponsored contracts, valued at a cumulative $A12,000,000. This involved contarcts and partnering with,
the Australian Hotels Association (NSW), Drake International, Sarina Russ Queensland, Hastings Marina,
Echuca Business Corporation and Swan Hill Shire, Gardner Merchant Sedexho, Jacobs Kraft, among many others.
The commercial entity created by Kevin Beck indertppk fee for service contracts in
industry management, and hospitality, training for clients and enterprise, including new Sheraton Hotels in the Asian region.
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Kevin Beck strategised, and positioned, a paper, and maintenance, services company from a ten million dollar a year enterprise to a one hundred and ten million entity entering the
Australian telecommunications sector. Kevin Beck was the consultant strategist, and a bid team member, for a major telecommunications tender won by the company.
Kevin Beck worked with senior federal public service officers on the Reorganisation/Culture Change of an Australian federal government department (2003),
employing 25,000 people across Australia. Kevin Beck was a consultant on areas within employee communications, organisational development and change management spheres.
Kevin beck is engaged in the Building of the capacity of Small, to Medium, Enterprises in Australia (2006 - 2010, current), as strategist, and adviser to consultants providing services in the small, to medium, enterprises.
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Kevin Beck implemented a global assignment in the light metals mining sector (2000 - 2003), assessing the economic potential of the
development of a magnesium industry in Australia. He undertook economic assessments, financial costing studies, refinery economics, market economics, and implemented a competition strategy.
Designing, approaching and implementing, alliances, joint ventures, cooperative programmes in Europe and the United States, as well as
implementing counter competition activities in Australia and internationally. Kevin Beck authored submissions, and appearances, before Australia parliamentary
enquiries. Kevin Beck negotiated with international private and public sector interests in Europe, Israel, United Kingdom, USA and Canada.
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Kevin Beck is engaged in the expansion, of a section of the technology industry sector in Australia (2006 - current) working
with business development specialists and international corporations across government and the private sector.
Kevin Beck is developing, and negotiating, policies, ideas and technology systems and human solutions, in
diverse arenas of national security (2010 - ongoing) in government agencies and in the wider Australia enterprise and community.
Kevin Beck engages in government, and public sector, relations (2000 - 2011 ongoing) preparing submissions and organising appearances before numerous parliamentary enquiries.
This work includes long term, diverse campaigns for clients and a separate contract to expose covert, and overt, fraud through over servicing in health services delivery in Australia and its impact on consumer insurance and services pricing, governmengt and private health expenditures,
as well as government budgets and private sector costs and revenue impacts. Kevin interacts extensively with Austalia and international media.
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