Team
Warren Parry
Warren Parry is author of Big Change, Best Path and a pioneer in the use of empirical research and modelling to help people manage change more successfully.
He invented Change Tracking, a patented system of predictive analytics, now used by Accenture in more than 30 countries and in 20 languages in over 300 global organisations. Warren’s use of data sets and advanced mathematical algorithms has bust many of the myths surrounding organisational change.
Warren was the Global ChangeTracking Lead for Accenture up to 2017. Previously, he was the founder and former CEO of ChangeTrack Research which was acquired by Accenture in April 2013. The Australian Government recognised the innovative work of ChangeTrack Research, awarding R&D grants in 2008, 2010 and 2011.
Warren is based in Sydney, Australia. He has lodged 16 patents, has published in international journals and speaks regularly at conferences.
Warren’s qualifications include BA (Psych) WA, MPhil. F.A. (Hons) NZ, and BArch (Hons) NZ. He was formerly Executive Director of the Wasley Centre, a community health service and training centre in Western Australia. He has extensive training in group work, counselling and family therapy and is a Certified Trainer, Educator and Practitioner in Action Methods Training (equivalent to and based on Post-graduate Internship, St. Elisabeth’s Hospital, Washington D.C.)
Paul Carey
Paul has worked for large consulting companies and global organisations in the measurement of potential — of individuals, teams, boards. He is the author of four books and of a number of papers and other publications on staff opinion surveying, measuring organizational climate, organisational development, team formation, and multivariate analysis topics. He is recognised internationally as an expert in the design of gainsharing plans and ‘building the big team’.
He has been working with Warren Parry on Change Tracking within Accenture, renewing an association that stretches back for 20 years. He collaborated with Warren on the book Big Change, Best Path. He now concentrates on the building of change and culture models based on text collected from staff comments in surveys, and the measurement of individual values from individuals describing their personal values.
Educated at the University of Sydney and the University of Bordeaux, he has an Honours MA in English Literature.
Dr Oliver O’Connell
Dr Oliver O’Connell is a Sydney based consultant psychiatrist, psychotherapist and addiction medicine specialist working in private practice. He has been the Medical Director and VMO for Detox and acute rehabilitation units for the last 20 years. First at the Northside group of clinics and subsequently at Wesley Hospital Ashfield. Oliver brings his experience and research capabilities to LifeMap Research to assist his patients, their families and the wider community to more effectively deal with change.
Oliver graduated in science at University College Dublin, majoring in pharmacology. On immigrating to Australia he graduated in medicine at NSW University and subsequently completed a master’s degree in medicine in psychotherapy at Sydney University.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Psychiatrists and a member of the Faculties of Addiction Medicine and Psychotherapy. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Chapter of Addiction of the Royal Australian College of Physicians. He is a member of the Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry Committee and a lecturer at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry.
Mark Davidson
For more than fifteen years, Mark served as a General Counsel and senior member of several successful business teams, including the Asia-Pacific operations of Transaction Network Services, Salmat Digital (formerly Interactive), and ChangeTrack Research.
Mark was instrumental in taking ChangeTracking from an idea in the 1990s, to a business with substantial IP assets and blue chip clients operating internationally, through to its successful acquisition by Accenture in 2013.
Mark’s legal expertise is complemented by experience as Commercial Director for a leading edge digital product development business, and a broad range of positions with non-profit organisations.
Based in Sydney, Mark began his legal career with Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills) in 1990. His legal qualifications include appointment as a Public Notary and admission as a Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and High Court of Australia. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Law Society of New South Wales, and a founding member of Internet Australia.
Garry O’Sullivan
Garry works in the voluntary sector in projects including work with refugees in Australia, the rural poor in India and in the Scouting movement, where he has been active with youth for 25 years.
Garry brings to LifeMap Research rigorous analytical and project management skills along with a deep understanding of what it takes to bring about change in disadvantaged communities.
By training, he is an electrical engineer and has worked in the IT&C and supply chain fields for most of his career. He worked in the public and corporate telecommunications sectors, both in Australia and Germany for 15 years, before establishing his own telecommunications and electronic commerce business CoreProcess Pty Ltd in 1990. Garry created innovative supply chain analytical systems to track costs end-to-end costs which was successfully deployed into large food and grocery suppliers in Australia and in the UK.
Garry holds a Bachelor of Science, majoring in mathematics, a Bachelor of Engineering (Hon), both from the University of NSW. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Deakin University. Through his involvement in Scouting he holds a wide range of outdoor activity qualifications.
Angela Law
Based in the UK, Angela is a graduate of the University of Reading and studied at Ashridge Executive Education. She was Marketing Manager EMEA with The McGraw-Hill Book Company and marketing consultant to clients including the BBC and the Open University.
She developed production company Hawkshead into an international award-winning specialist in education and social issues. The company was acquired by Endemol - now part of global content creator Endemol Shine Group.
Angela is a founding Director of Every Sense, a specialist business consultancy helping media and technology companies to grow, prosper and achieve their potential. Angela worked with Warren on the strategy and value proposition for ChangeTrack Research ahead of the successful acquisition by Accenture.
Angela has been a mentor and guest lecturer at the University of Westminster and Brunel University and a speaker at seminars and industry events at Channel 4, the BFI and the Internet Advertising Bureau.