
Canberra-based administration consultancy Initiatives Assured has celebrated the tenth anniversary of its 2015 founding, with the agency having been a part of DWS since 2018 and now HLCTech.
In what seems like each a really lengthy and quick time in the past now, ConsultancyAU reported on Mission Assured’s fifth anniversary again in 2020. Since then, the tasks advisory agency has doubled the size of its existence, final month marking ten years since its institution in Canberra by co-founders Greg Sly and David O’Rourke.
With Sly and O’Rourke having handed over to government basic supervisor Yas Diaz on the finish of 2023, and the agency present process a visible model refresh in the midst of final yr, the one-decade anniversary marks Initiatives Assured’s third main milestone in as a few years – with the promise of extra large information to return.
“During the last ten years, we’ve grown, tailored, and strengthened our enterprise in an evolving market, increasing past assurance into venture and program administration, technique, enterprise transformation, and different rising areas,” the agency stated. “Our dedication to excellence has enabled us to win and retain work, navigate very tough market shifts, and stay a office of selection.”
Final yr’s model replace, developed in collaboration with artistic consultancy Knight Studio, additional included the place assertion ‘Accomplished with confidence’ and a brand new ‘1-3-5’ technique, the latter which aimed to supply a transparent road-map over the next one, three, and 5 years. The agency additionally reshaped its senior advisor roles to boost profession and management alternatives.
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Now, at an ‘AMPLIFY: Past the Decade’ occasion to have fun its ten-year anniversary, Initiatives Assured has stepped up its worker entitlements to the following stage by saying ten new advantages, together with an expanded well-being and health program, the flexibleness of enhanced parental depart and fortnightly pay, and a suggestion of ten ‘affect hours’ for its folks to offer again to the group.
“Initiatives Assured was based on the assumption that there was a greater option to run a consulting agency – one which prioritises its folks by means of the values of Work-Stay-Reward,” the agency stated. “From day one, we got down to create a office the place our folks’s well-being, profession progress, and work-life steadiness have been prioritised. A decade later, these values nonetheless stay on the core of the whole lot we do.”
Becoming a member of IT & enterprise administration consultancy DwS Group in mid-2018, and a member of HCLTech’s world steady for the previous 4 and a half years, Initiatives Assured’s greater than 100 professionals help private and non-private sector purchasers throughout three major segments – administration advisory, info expertise, and functionality administration providers.
The agency has additionally continued to construct up its senior ranks in latest occasions, with amongst others Danny Shoesmith approaching board from Parbery as defence portfolio basic supervisor towards the top of final yr, and ex-Telstra Purple digital providers associate Vincent Bourgarel appointed enterprise progress officer, the latter with a view to lead Initiatives Assured’s recent growth into New South Wales.