As Project Director for Pacifico delivering the Harwood Bridge project in Northern NSW, I’ve been assisted and supported by an amazing high performance team. However, I’d say that working as contractor under the delivery partner model was very challenging and uncomfortable at the beginning. Thanks to Abby’s facilitation and workshops attended by the contractor and client leaders, the initial threats and concerns turned into a very strong collaborative approach, breaking communications barriers and ego’s, focusing on those things that are required for success rather than turning into contractual clauses every time. The result is a new model in client – contractor relationship based on trust, confidence, collaboration and alignment with the main targets. I’ve never been on a project where everybody involved or impacted is jumping for joy.

Project Director , Pacifico

As the Health and Safety Manager representing RMS at the Harwood Bridge project I would highly recommend Abby to be part of the strategic development of any business or project to ensure partnerships and teams are built on solid relationships.
Abby Stevens played a major role in getting our project back on track.  Abby used her skills to identify the humility in ourselves as people and as leaders paving the way for the creation of a new approach in communication and collaboration that has laid the foundation for our now widely recognised and awarded successful portion of the wider W2B Programme. People are the solution, not the problem!

WHS Manager, Laing O’Rourke

“The Game Changer session made us look at our company structure very differently; we realised where people are best placed for us to utilise their strengths and help us work more united as a team. I’d thoroughly recommend these workshops even if you don’t have problems, to lift the hood off it and look at your business through different eyes."

CEO School Stream

As the manager of Information Technology and Records Management professionals, it was my pleasure to engage Abby to workshop a new Team Charter that helped bring individuals facing change into a performing team.
Abby first sought to be fully briefed and then came prepared for the facilitation task at hand.  Abby delivered a day of intense but enjoyable re-envisioning of what we all stood for as a team, crystallising the values that mattered to us most.  For me, it was essential to find an approachable facilitator able to navigate the needs of diverse staff finding a shared understanding and appreciation of what we stood for, in this Abby succeeded.  I enjoy the benefit of working with a great IT team who continue to smash their goals left, right and centre.  Excellent communication and shared values are critical to this; sometimes we need a hand to get there, so thank you, Abby.

Manager Business Systems and Technology, Byron Shire Council

Since engaging Abby the culture across our project has greatly improved. This is a joint venture project between a New Zealand and Spanish company which both have very different management styles. Abby facilitated sessions on how best to communicate with one another across all departments starting with our senior leadership team which assisted us in getting ‘on the same page’ and working towards a common goal of completing the project by 2019 as safely as possible. With over 500 employees on this $700 million project, Abby insight and ability to gain rapport with our workforce has been invaluable to create a best for project approach.

Former Project Director, Fletcher/Acciona P2Wk