SIMON MUNDY

EXECUTIVE

Simon is a Senior Associate with Executive Mandala.

He has over thirty-five years experience in IT within organisations ranging in size from fewer than twenty to hundreds of thousands. The organisations range from local government in the UK, through mainframe hardware and software vendors, agencies servicing very specialised markets like the advertising industry, major telecom companies and major IT service organisations. He has served as European Product Specialist for two of the now defunct Candle Corporation’s major products servicing customers in UK and across Western and Northern Europe. He has been technical lead on major mainframe and storage sales initiatives into a major British bank for Hitachi Data Systems in the late 1980s and has played significant roles at the interface of technology and business within major telecom and IT service providers since migrating to Australia in 1990.

In that thirty-five years, Simon has participated in many change projects, both intentional and circumstantial, most notably the expansion of a small company from fewer than twenty staff to over one hundred in two years and several major outsourcing initiatives as both outsource services provider and member of the outsourced IT organisation, in management and as a technical specialist. The difficulties and partial success of these initiatives, and many others, have driven his interest in the factors supporting and inhibiting effective change within business organisations.

His interest in the wider field of human change and development has led him on a participative exploration of psychological and spiritual change models and techniques since the early 1970s, and of business change models since the late 1990s. This interest is reflected in his thirty year Zen meditation practice combined with martial arts and has culminated in his pursuit of a Bachelor degree in Counselling and Human Change at Jansen Newman Institute in Sydney which he will complete in December 2009. In the mid 1990s he was certified as an NLP Practitioner by McClendon Associates and is now certified by The Leadership Circle to administer and interpret their Individual and Cultural Surveys.

He is dedicating the senior years of his life to the facilitation of congruent and authentic developmental change in individuals and in the organisations which are so central to our lives. He takes it as obvious that the changes needed at this point in human history not only include new ways of thinking but, and particularly in organisations, new ways of choosing how we behave towards each other.

Simon has worked in and with such organisations as Fidelity bank of Philadelphia Pa., T. Wall and Sons (UK) Ltd, Readers Digest (UK), Triad Computing Systems Ltd. (UK), Donovan Data Systems (UK) Ltd, Candle Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems, Telstra and IBM.