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Giving Back

Since Juno Consulting’s inception we have donated a lot of time to the community sector and we remain committed to our pro-bono activities. This year we will be adding a financial contribution. In each quarter we will be giving away $3,000. In addition, we will close the office for one day per quarter so the whole Juno Consulting team can donate that day to the community group we are supporting.

We can get involved in many ways. For example, you could utilise our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) background. Over the years we have aided both our corporate clients and community groups in building long-term partnerships liberating sponsorship dollars, ongoing corporate volunteers and ’in-kind’ contributions. We have helped community groups understand what CSR is and what it’s not, create CSR marketing plans to approach businesses using a language it understands and, as a result, ensured a positive response. If you know of a good project that you feel business would be interested in, maybe we could help put together a CSR proposal and project plan.

Another way we have helped community groups is in the area of staff and volunteer training. Juno Consulting works with business in area of leadership development. We know that community groups with limited funding often struggle to find the dollars to pay for professional development for their paid (and unpaid) staff. Training is part of the ‘Giving Back’ opportunity on offer.

We are not afraid to get our hands dirty on either indoor or outdoor projects. If you have a community house or garden that needs a little TLC then contact us. Maybe the $3,000 could cover the cost of paint, contribute to a new carpet or furniture. Similarly, it could fill a garden with ’drought friendly’ plants.

Maybe, we could help your clients in some way. For example we have helped deliver internet training to parents who had never touched a computer and were worried that they didn’t know how to keep their children safe as they we surfing the net.

Hopefully, this gives you an idea of what we are willing and able to do. Our aim is to build long-term relationships with the community groups which apply for our funding and support.

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Juno Consulting is a Melbourne based consultancy that provides practical and authentic leadership development programs through a challenging context for growth. Our three core areas of expertise are:

Community Mentoring
Mentoring a disadvantaged community member, who is clearly in need of advice and coaching, creates a powerful motivation for leaders to overcome their own barriers and start experimenting with new leadership skills and behaviours. Our community mentoring programs are goal oriented and fully facilitated for the 13 weeks duration. We carefully screen and train proteges and mentors receive foundation training and ongoing coaching to assist them in their journey.
New Leaders
We provide programs that assist new leaders in making the transition to management. These programs focus on effective leadership and team behaviours. In all our programs we combine experiential learning with reflective work and group coaching. The programs are designed to be practical and all the material we cover is immediately applicable in the new leader's work.
Job Services Australia Programs
We offer a suite of programs to Job Services Australia providers which are known for their high level of outcomes when working with long-term unemployed clients. Based on our proven combination of training, coaching and corporate mentoring, we have consistently achieved 50-70% outcome rates. We also provide programs for less disadvantaged clients and training for Job Services consultants.

We pride ourselves on our integrity, ethical approach and dedication to quality results. At the end of working with us you will be surprised by comments from your staff along the lines of 'My company is great for doing this!'.

Awards

Below are examples of awards that our clients have won with our help:

2009 ACLG National Awards for Local Government - Strengthening Communities
Winner: Passport to Work - Hume City Council
2007 GE Global Impact Award - Leadership Innovation
Winner: Community Mentoring - GE Money Australia
2006 Prime Minister's Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships
Finalist: IBM Australia (for partnership with City of Maribyrnong)
2004 Diversity @ Work Awards - Employment & Inclusion of Indigenous Australians
Winner: Ford Employability for Life Program
2004 Diversity @ Work Awards - Individual Champions
Winner: Gail Rodgers Corporate Citizenship Manager Ford Australia
Corporate Leaders for Indigenous Employment Awards 2004 - Outstanding Individual
Winner: Michael Bligh Ford Australia
Corporate Leaders for Indigenous Employment Awards 2004 - Outstanding Organisation
Special Commendation: Ford Australia
Corporate Leaders for Indigenous Employment Awards 2004 - Outstanding Manager
Finalist: Gail Rodgers Corporate Citizenship Manager Ford Australia
VAEAI 2004 Wurreker Awards - Private Sector Employer
Finalist: Ford Australia

Juno Consutling has also been a winner in Corporate Social Responsibility category of the 2006 Hume City Business Awards and the winner of the 2007 Special Award for Excellence in Program Design and Implementation.

Clients

Juno Consulting's clients are corporations, local, state and federal government, NGO's and Job Network providers. Our clients include:

AGL
ANZ Banking Group
AFL Corporation
AIA
AMES
Aurecon Group
Australian Paper
Australia Post
Bendigo Adelaide Bank
BHP Billiton
BP Australia
Cadbury Pty Ltd
Campbell Page
Centrelink
City of Casey
City of Melbourne
City of Port Phillip
Clayton Utz
Coca-Cola Amatil
ConnectEast
CPA Australia
CSL Bioplasma
CSIRO
CVGT
Darebin City Council
Department of Employment, Education & Workplace Relations
Department of Parliamentary Services
Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
GE Capital
Geelong City Council
Good Shepherd Youth & Family Services
Gilead Sciences
Hanover Welfare Services
HJ Heinz
Hume City Council
IBM Australia
Interact Australia
IPA Personnel
Job Prospects
KAMCO (Keane Aust)
Kangan Batman TAFE
Karingal (Matchworks)
Kelly Services
KPMG
Lonely Planet Publications (BBC)
Ford Motor Company
MAB Corporation
Maribyrnong City Council
MAX Employment
McDonald’s Australia Ltd
Mercer
NHP Electrical Engineering
Nissan Motor Company
Note Printing Australia
National Australia Bank
Pacific National
Port of Melbourne Corporation
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Reed in Partnership
Sarina Russo Job Access
Schweppes Australia
Seek
Sensis
South East Water
SP AusNet
Standard & Poor’s
State Trustees
Superpartners
TATA Global Beverages
Telstra
The Salvation Army Employment Plus
THQ Entertainment
Transurban
Transfield Services
TRUenergy
UCMS
UXC/Skilltech
Unico
Victoria Police
Western Water
WHK
WISE Employment

Philosophy

Juno Consulting believes that business is undergoing a transformation that will reconnect the private sector economy with broader civil society. We believe Corporate Social Responsibility and changes in organisational values and cultures are expressions of this trend. Our vision is to act as a change agent for this transformation, which we believe is mirrored by equivalent changes in the NGO sector.

Our Values

Juno Consulting advances organisational cultures towards more society minded values and emotional intelligence. We create programs for leadership development under the umbrella of Corporate Social Responsibility and we work with vulnerable clients in the Job Network. To be successful in this endeavour we base our work on a set of values that reflects the interplay between success orientation and ethics.

Our People

Paul Lacey

Paul spent the first 18 years of his career in people management positions in industries such as Tourism, Media and Corporate Training before moving into the not-for-profit sector. During this time he was responsible for building and maintaining senior business relationships nationally and internationally with global blue-chip companies.

Working as the Business Relationships Manager for The Salvation Army Employment Plus enabled Paul to channel his knowledge and expertise of the corporate sector to benefit the community, due to his understanding of the importance in creating ongoing mutually beneficial partnerships.

Paul joined Juno Consulting in January 2007 as our Business Relationship Manager. He holds a strong interest in Corporate Social Responsibility and his focus has been on managing Juno’s corporate-community initiatives such as the Community Mentoring program.

Facilitating Juno’s monthly Mock Interview Workshops has allowed Paul to engage with hundreds of participants from the corporate sector to assist disadvantaged individuals in their search for education or employment.

Mei Ouw, BA, LLB

Mei holds a Bachelor Degree in both Arts (Psychology) and Law as well as qualifications in kinesiology and training. Mei has a background in training and development, recruitment and human resources and has worked across various industries including consultancies, small businesses and the community services. In recent years she has developed and facilitated a wide range of personal development programs for the community services industry including the Certificate III in Employment Services.

She has a passion for helping people to raise their self-awareness and reach their full potential. Her training style is dynamic and inspires people to explore new possibilities and create more positive ways of thinking. In coaching clients Mei is able to guide individuals through the process of identifying and overcoming obstacles that prevent them from moving forward.

Travis Molloy

Travis graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Applied Science and has since worked for CSL and specialist biotechnology companies. In parallel with this career in science Travis studied and graduated from the Royal Military College Duntroon as an Army Officer. He transferred to a Training Command position, developing the next generation of full and part-time officers in the Australian Defence Force.

Undertaking leadership training and roles in both a corporate and defence environment has provided Travis with a unique perspective into practical leadership in a broad range of environments. Travis is a Certified Trainer of NLP and one of a small group to have achieved a perfect result on the NLP Trainer Exam. He has been using NLP as part of his business facilitation and coaching with a range of Top 500 companies including Telstra, Coles, NAB and AGL. Together with facilitating and business coaching Travis also has the ability to develop complex instructional strategies that meet the needs of the learners and the desired learning outcomes.

Rod Conn

Rod is a highly experienced career consultant with a strong background in career coaching and transition, outplacement and executive coaching. Focused and energetic, Rod has a 15 year history of achievement in delivering customised career transition and career coaching services to professionals, managers and executives.

His broad knowledge of industries, career paths and human development allow him to focus on personal development and realising career potential with all of his clients. Rod is empathetic, intuitive and a highly experienced coach and mentor.

His prior experience has been gained in leadership and consulting roles in information technology, manufacturing, hospitality and professional services organisations. Working in executive recruitment with KPMG, Rod developed an excellent understanding of executive careers and how to drive them forward.

Rod has delivered coaching and outplacement assignments with AXA, ANZ, Exxon Mobil, Mitsubishi, The ABC, Vision Australia and BDO, to name a few. Through his work with individuals and organisations Rod has developed a clear understanding of what is needed for effective and positive career development and change.

About Us

Juno Consulting is a Melbourne based consultancy that works at the cross section of leadership development and Corporate Social Responsibility.

We have been in business since 2001 and enjoy delivering innovative leadership programs that help business and individual leaders reconnect with community in a meaningful way.

We have provided leadership development programs under the Juno Consulting banner for over 8 years now. During those years we have trained over 2.000 corporate leaders across a range of industries and levels of seniority. As a result, we have accumulated extensive knowledge on leadership and how to develop the emotional skills and competencies that underpin great leadership.

We believe the key to innovation is to foster a workplace culture in which adaptive leadership is encouraged. People of various backgrounds, business, government and academic, have argued that improving Australia’s innovation capabilities will not occur without strong leadership, good management practices and healthy social values across our private and public sector workplaces. A recent report by Professor Roy Green demonstrated that Australian management compared well on operational capability but not so in people management.

Strengthening innovation capabilities and performance in Australia is, first and foremost about engaging and capturing the hearts and minds of people in the workplace and developing a social value system in which ‘adaptive leadership’ is an ingrained part of people’s ways of thinking and doing.

The Juno Group work closely with local community partners and disadvantaged community members across Melbourne and the ‘Business – Community Mentoring’ program provides an ideal platform to affect positive change in the local community as well as providing an excellent people development vehicle for your team. The participating corporate mentors will have the opportunity to develop and sharpen their leadership flexibility and allow participants to apply coaching techniques in an ‘off-Broadway’ environment – mentoring a long term unemployed person.

Juno Consulting also works extensively with a diverse range of social partners including Job Service Agencies, Community Development & Neighbourhood Renewal initiative to work with some of Australia’s most disadvantaged communities. We not only train and coach these job seekers, we also pair them with corporate mentors for a period of 3 months. In over 100 such community mentoring programs we have consistently achieved success rates of 65-70%, mainly working with the long-term unemployed.