Janet Hunter, Managing and Founding Partner

• Masters of Business Administration, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney, Australia (majoring in strategy, operations and finance)
• Diploma in Marketing Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management , Sydney, Australia
• Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)
• Accredited Consultant 
• Structural Dynamics (Kantor Institute)
• The Leadership Circle
• Organisational Effectiveness Profiling (O.E.P)

Janet, as a founding partner of Etvia, wanted to create a consulting practise and software system specifically designed to support CEO’s and leaders in their most critical function – formulating and executing their strategy. She knows from experience what is required of an organisation’s culture and organisational processes and systems to build the discipline of execution into a core organisational and competitive strength. This is her strength and an area of business she had been drawn to and excels in. 
 
Janet is the architect of Etvia’s patented strategy management system etviaTRACE and OBP etviaTRACE the government system.  Both systems are cloud deployed and referenced by Gartner, the global leader in systems benchmarking, as the first solution to fully meet the long-standing corporate need for strategy deployment and execution management.

Prior to Etvia Janet excelled in the challenging tourism industry in CEO and corporate GM/Director roles in marketing, finance, people and culture and IT. The sector is known for requiring sharp management because of its tight operating margins, people and service focus and performance based agreements between asset owners and management companies. As CEO she was responsible for a turnover of $160m, 32 business units and 2,000+ staff. During this time Janet was also a key member of various the project teams including: two public floats ($400m), a successful international casino hotel tender with the Queensland government, 5 star hotel and entertainment complex design, construction, commissioning and opening project ($300m), capital raisings, mergers, acquisitions, management agreement negotiations, hotel/motel franchise network in Australia and New Zealand, national and regional hotel chain rebrands, central reservations and travel company start up. This wide range of firsthand experiences enables Janet to support senior leaders in a very grounded way. She understands the challenges and pressures leaders face when juggling the important issues that keep an organisational performing and the execution of the strategy to take the organisation and the team into the future… and deliver on both. Testimony to that are Etvia’s long standing clients and referrals founded on their reputation for genuine client partnerships and creating sustainable, scalable value.  

Personal philosophy: "Life is not a dress rehearsal”
Business philosophy: "While big ideas are important, unless you translate big thoughts into concrete steps for action, they're pointless." Larry Bossidy. Ex Honeywell CEO, business author and consultant

Jo Cornick – Consulting Operations and Founding Partner

• Accredited Consultant:
  • The Leadership Circle - Leadership 360 Assessment profiles and development
  • Kantor Institute: Dialogix and Structural Dynamics - Systems based approach  to building communicative competency in individuals, teams and organisations
  • GSI, LSI and DiSC – Leadership Behaviour/ Profiling
  • Organisational Cultural Inventory (OCI) – Culture diagnostic and effectiveness benchmarking
  • Organisational Effectiveness Profiling (OEP)
• Studied Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), Massey University, New Zealand

Jo leads the consulting operations of Etvia, planning out a strategy deployment project from end to end. Her role in Etvia is to focus on the organisational change, culture and leadership development requirements to successfully formulate, deploy and deliver strategic and OBP outcomes.
 
She is an experienced coach, workshop designer and facilitator who can skilfully hold a team together as they navigate the highs and lows of working through the challenging topics that rightfully surface in formulating a strategy and deploying a strategy. Jo is qualified to work on team 'Structural Dynamics' and dialogue effectiveness Etvia's key tools that underpins the whole quality of the strategy and effectiveness of its deployment to the team. She has a great depth of experience in building team effectiveness by focusing on self-awareness to understand individual and team leadership and communication and patterns and building new authentic and sustainable mindsets and skills. This cultural and leadership work is of critical importance in the delivery of government strategy and OBP given the elevated importance of non-structural leadership and 'followship' and greater the complexity in achieving collaboration, accountability and transparency.
 
Jo has a long-standing track record in leadership and cultural change, leading some of the largest culture change initiatives in Australia, New Zealand and the UK and as a Partner in Etvia has been directly involved in deploying organisational strategy and plans to thousands of leaders and participants in nationally and internationally.

Her philosophies - “Mean what you say and say what you mean”..."Prayer without action is the same thing as no prayer at all" (from the one and only Mother Theresa!)