As the Founder and Managing Director of Maximus, Vanessa is an astute business professional with a passion for developing and transforming organisations through their people. For more than 15 years, Vanessa has consulted to an impressive range of leading Australian and Global organisations to enhance their business strategies, improve executive and leadership capability, design appropriate organisation structures and deliver whole of business performance solutions.

During the past 8 years leading Maximus, Vanessa has combined her own business experiences with her consulting talent whilst working with clients such as Coca Cola Amatil, News Limited, and QBE on significant performance and leadership solutions. In previous roles, Vanessa was responsible for leading teams to deliver organisational development solutions across Australia, the UK and Asia across  clients such as Westpac, IBM, ANZ Australasia, Lehman Brothers Japan and Merrill Lynch London.

Vanessa’s unique capabilities enable her to understand the needs and complexity of both business and people very quickly. She is committed to ensuring that every Maximus solution is insightful, agile, practical and relevant to the business and its’ people.

Vanessa is a registered Psychologist with the NSW Psychologist’s Registration Board. She is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
 

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. CR Lawton