Who’s Moving – December 2022 Who’s Moving December 2022 tracks who has moved careers across the healthcare, academic healthcare, life sciences, not-for-profit, human services and digital health sectors, globally. At Ccentric we have had the pleasure of working with an excellent group of candidates over the last month and would like to congratulate the following on their new positions. Mr Andrew Spillane will commence in the role of Commercial & Business Improvement Executive at Adventist Healthcare on 5th December 2022. Mr Richard Perin will commence in the Principal Business Partner role ..read more

2022 Interim Survey Results Use of interim executives in Australia This report was commissioned by Ccentric, to gain insight into the demands and drivers in the market for interim executives in the Australian health care sector. One of the purposes of this survey was to obtain changes and identify trends since the 2019 interim survey Ccentric presented, as well as to establish if there had been a large shift in the market as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. The results presented have been collated from 125 survey participants, 64% of whom work within the healthcare sector; with the rema ..read more

Who’s Moving May 2022 Who’s Moving May 2022 tracks who has moved careers recently.  We look at the healthcare, academic healthcare, life sciences, not-for-profit, human services and digital health sectors, globally. At Ccentric we have had the pleasure of working with an excellent group of candidates over the last month.  We would like to congratulate the following on their new positions. Ms Cleola Anderiesz is joining the National Breast Cancer Foundation as their new Chief Executive Officer leaving her role as Deputy CEO at Cancer Australia. Associate Professor Kerryn Pike is joini ..read more

Sue Scheinpflug | Ccentric Podcast Chairperson at Brisbane Diamantina Health Partners Sue Scheinpflug is Chairperson at Brisbane Diamantina Health Partners. Sue recently sat down with Ccentric consultant, Pam Lubrainschik to discuss her career. Some of the questions they discussed include: What was your first job out of University and how did it shape your future career path? You played a part in the change from Medicare Locals to Primary Health Networks. What was it like transitioning these organisations? How has the change impacted the community? When you are recruiting for a senior ..read more

Unconscious bias is a bias in favour of or against a group or groups based on stereotypes, preconceptions, predetermined views, and/or personal convictions. While we’d all want to think we’re free of bias, everyone is guilty of it at some point in their lives, whether this happens consciously or unconsciously. Why do people have predispositions? Because it is a natural propensity that all humans have. As humans, we have automatic cognitive systems that assist us in processing stimuli and categorising this information. It permits us to traverse our world and our daily interactions as a resu ..read more

Why Effective Board Governance Is Needed in 2022 Since the start of COVID-19, boards have faced a number of difficult decisions due to the repercussions of corporate uncertainty, the decimation of the global economy and the flow-on effects of recovering to pre-pandemic levels. With such significant consequences for many organisations and large-scale decisions frequently necessary, this has highlighted the necessity of why effective board governance and rigorous due diligence are required now more than ever. The necessity of effective board governance is clear. Board members are essentially t ..read more

Who’s Moving February 2022 Who’s Moving February 2022 tracks who has moved careers recently.  We look at the healthcare, academic healthcare, life sciences, not-for-profit, human services and digital health sectors, globally. At Ccentric we have had the pleasure of working with an excellent group of candidates over the last month.  We would like to congratulate the following on their new positions.   Mr Walter DePasquale is joining Newcastle Private Hospital as Health Information Services Manager, leaving his role as Medical Coding Manager at Eastern Suburbs Private Hospital. Ms ..read more

Tips for Aspiring Medical Leaders In our latest tips for aspiring leaders’ series, we turn the focus towards aspiring medical leaders. We have had the pleasure of speaking with many medical leaders from our podcast series, video interviews and various other articles. Given the vast experience they have across the sector, we ask each of them what their advice to aspiring leaders would be. In this series, we speak with Erwin Loh, Ian Abbs, John ODonnell, Julian Wright, Lachlan Henderson, Lesley Forster, Monica Trujillo, Peter Smith and Ruth Vine. We also asked Ccentric Group Managing Dire ..read more

Who’s Moving December 2021 Who’s Moving December 2021 tracks who has moved careers recently.  We look at the healthcare, academic healthcare, life sciences, not-for-profit, human services and digital health sectors, globally. At Ccentric we have had the pleasure of working with an excellent group of candidates over the last month.  We would like to congratulate the following on their new positions.   Ms Brenda Gillard has joined South Western Sydney LHD as their new Director Clinical Governance, leaving her prior role as the Director of Clinical & Corporate Governance at Jus ..read more

Ccentric Staff give their Tips for Aspiring Leaders Ccentric Staff Tips – To help celebrate Ccentric’s 20 years of operations, we turn the focus of our latest tips for aspiring leaders’ series to advice from some of our consultants. Wayne Bruce | Managing Director My best advice for anyone aspiring to better their career is to ensure you are doing something you enjoy and are passionate about – if you’re not, it might be time to consider a change. Like many people, I “fell” into executive search, it was not a planned career move. However, on entering the industry, I was fortunate enough to have ..read more