Col Eardley

Col Eardley is an experienced, international, professional business executive. With a 35 year career in blue chip international companies in both technical and senior executive management roles Col combines her skills and experience with strong drive and commitment to enable organisations, large companies, SMEs and individuals to achieve their objectives. With a strong business improvement interest Col has a proven track record in:

• Leadership and building effective teams by successful mentoring/coaching/training programs.
• Change management including cultural and organisational change and improvement of business practices.
• Strategic business planning – focussing on goals, identifying opportunities for organic growth, diversifying into new markets/sectors, joint ventures, acquisitions, product and service development, exploiting new technology
• Positioning and adapting business to survive downturns or to exploit upturns in markets.
• Turning round failing companies
• Business Start ups

With extensive experience in Oil & Gas, Mining, Steel, Defence, Water, Wine, Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Pharmaceuticals, Electrical Distribution, Power, Communications Col has held the following positions:

• Director, Non Executive Director, General Manager, Member of Executive Management team, Divisional Manager, Operations Manager, Project Manager, Technical Manager.
• Executive Director of an Australian privately owned, medium sized engineering business through merger to IPO.
• Non Executive Director of a UK privately owned recruitment company.
• Chair International Conferences, International Committee member