Christine Williams (Senior Associate)

Christine has had experience across a number of disciplines throughout her career – including marketing, government relations, corporate communications and her key specialty – internal communications.

One of Christine’s key strengths is her versatility. She can deliver on the full range of internal communications requirements – she has skills in researching employee audiences, developing communications strategies and plans, actively designing and implementing communications products and measuring effectiveness. She is at home working with senior leaders in a corporate environment and front line personnel at various work sites.

Christine’s forte is supporting companies to develop a robust face-to-face communications infrastructure and the capability of their managers and supervisors as communicators.

In the past three years, Christine has worked as a communications strategist and consultant mainly with BlueScope Steel, BHP Billiton and the Victorian WorkCover Authority. Previously, she was Manager Internal Communications with BHP Billiton and prior to that, a human resources and communications specialist with Mobil Oil Australia.

 

John Marinopoulos (Senior Associate)

John has over 14 years of experience delivering business intelligence services within a number of fields including financial services, aviation, transport, tourism, jurisprudence and biostatistics. John has held senior positions within the National Australia Bank, Melbourne Airport and La Trobe University.
His career has focused on the strategic execution and delivery of business intelligence and market research to organisations in brand and reputation measurement, mergers and acquisitions, implementing marketing segmentation strategies, and new product and concept development.   John is a member of the Market Research Society of Australia, Deputy Chair of the Victoria Division and Council member of Market Research Quality Assurance of Australia. 

John holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Statistics and a Masters of Science in Statistics from Monash University. He has lectured at Monash University, La Trobe University and other universities in Australia.   He has spoken widely at international conferences on world's best practice models and methods in a number of areas such as strategic intelligence, brand and reputation measurement and customer needs within financial services.