Gavin Lawless

Consultant

Optimal Business Advantage

Australia

Professional Summary

Gavin Lawless, senior executive and consultant for Optimal Business Advantage. He has a proven track record of growing businesses, delivering upon financial goals and creating positive working environments for staff to flourish. By building strong relationships and anticipating and understanding business needs, he sets strong growth targets and achieves them through positive teamwork. His management methods are adaptive and effective in changing environments. He believes that an effectual manager is one who is willing to roll up his sleeves, so to speak, and one who values and provides support to his staff-all in order to achieve positive results and succeed as a team. In his team, he instills discipline and has ensured accountability, transparency and predictability in the business as a whole. He is a strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen. He is not fond of the status quo and prides himself on being champion of change management. He believes that his professional success can be attributed to a driven, dedicated, team-centered and empathetic mindset and the ability to inspire and get the most out of people. His aspirations are to help organisations build strong and successful teams, build an even stronger support team, to strive daily for personal improvement, and to continue adding significant value to clients. Gavin was a first class and professional rugby player from 1991-1999; He is a fluent speaker of English, Afrikaans and Dutch.

Skills

Specialization

Management Consulting; Information Technology and Services; Pharmaceutical Consulting; Sales; and Financial Services