Canberra-based advisory Kiah Consulting has appointed former firm member Davina Mansfield as its new managing director, with founder John Glenn handing over after greater than twenty years.
Mansfield returns to Kiah Consulting after a seven 12 months absence, a lot of that point in senior operational roles at defence & cybersecurity boutique Viden, earlier than which she spent two years as Kiah’s workplace supervisor to 2018.
A former long-serving officer within the Australian Military, Glenn in the meantime established Kiah in 2003, and has since grown the consulting agency right into a multi-million greenback enterprise serving public sector purchasers throughout a spread of departments. The agency final 12 months was named a number one consulting agency in a number of areas of observe.
“I’m thrilled to be rejoining the crew throughout this thrilling change in management,” Mansfield mentioned, whereas thanking Glenn for his management in organising the agency for long-term success. “Having beforehand labored for Kiah makes this chance much more significant, and I stay up for contributing to our shared objectives and persevering with Kiah’s mission to enhance public companies.”
Along with her time at Viden, the place she served as operations supervisor and chief working officer over 5 years, Mansfield additionally labored at Engineers Australia post-Kiah and as an government assistant to the CEO of Contact Soccer Australia, and has offered voluntary administrative help to anti-trafficking and sexual exploitation organisation International Alms for the previous 5 years.
In her new function, Mansfield, who additionally began off her profession within the Military and not too long ago accomplished an MBA with the UNSW Enterprise Faculty, mentioned her focus can be on fostering innovation, strengthening partnerships, and cultivating an atmosphere that will empower Kiah’s professionals to excel, with a future imaginative and prescient for enlargement whereas adapting to the evolving market.
Kiah Consulting supplies a spread of companies protecting technique, operations, program and challenge administration, IT, engineering and procurement amongst different areas. Mansfield mentioned one contemporary focus can be on supporting public sector business purchasers to construct up their inside groups, whereas the agency would additionally quickly launch a brand new line serving to startups navigate the world of grants and public sector funding.
“I’m excited to construct upon our robust basis as we transfer into the following chapter,” Mansfield acknowledged. “Whereas John’s contributions have been invaluable, we can not solely depend on his legacy. Kiah has at all times been greater than only one particular person, and it’s time for us to evolve. He stays as a mentor, an individual to bounce concepts off, however has given me the liberty to take the enterprise in new instructions.”
Glenn has typically been an outspoken critic of the general public sector procurement panorama as to the massive worldwide consultancies and smaller sovereign suppliers, and doesn’t seem inclined to melt his stance following the hand-over; “It’s at all times been a problem to check the established order with authorities if you end up additionally reliant on it on your revenue. As for me, I believe fading away is unlikely.”
