Our history
BlackPoint has provided more than 20 years of uninterrupted service to our clients and communities.
BlackPoint started life in 2001 as Innovation Partners. Our mission back then was to bring innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset to large corporations. Our founders had come from working in the start-up industry and recognised an opportunity to bring the same entrepreneurial and dynamic approach to corporate innovation and commercialisation activities.
After 10 years we began to see a shift and innovation was no longer a nice to have but a core enabler of organisational success.
We rebranded to BlackPoint in 2012 to reflect our developing service offering. To achieve innovation success for our clients we were engaged in strategy, leadership development, transformation, organisation design and operational systems. Over the past decade we are proud to have supported a broad range of organisations to create something better for their people, stakeholders, communities and the worlds in which they operate.
How we work
Across our journey BlackPoint has remained a small, focussed and dedicated team that has allowed us to provide highly experienced consultants and personalised service to our clients. Client relationships and results matter to us.
We approach every engagement with curiosity, purpose and a strategic, big-picture view.
We seek to understand and derive insights through analysis and bringing different perspectives to the thinking.
We work collaboratively with our clients and client teams to deliver outcomes. We understand the power of ownership and engagement in delivering the best solutions and in making sure they are implemented and sustained. We guide, facilitate, coach, provide frameworks and inputs to support our clients to do the best thinking and to build outcomes and solutions they are committed to.
Our team
Rod McMeeken
Rod is an accomplished management consultant with deep experience in the areas of Visioning, Strategy Development, Transformational Change, Team and Leadership Development, Organisational Design, and Innovation.
He also has extensive experience in providing Strategic Guidance, Decision Analysis and Investment Evaluation support for the development of large capital projects. Rod has led many state, national and international consulting engagements across a wide range of industry sectors and has provided management consulting support and guidance at corporate and divisional levels for large multinationals through to small and medium sized organisations.
Rod is a talented and highly sought-after facilitator having spent the bulk of his career using facilitated processes to engage, collaborate and co-design with stakeholders and teams across a range of engagements that benefit from the use of an experienced facilitator. Rod uses his experience to design, develop and facilitate customised workshops, forums, and events to meet a broad range of client needs.
Fiona Maron
Fiona has held various people and culture management roles within leading Australian and international companies, successfully coaching leaders and teams for over 30 years.
Fiona is a creative, critical thinker and empath who listens intently, asks key questions and helps others to find the answers they need. Fiona supports individuals, teams and organisations to develop a sense of purpose, using their talents and abilities to ‘make a difference’.
When required, Fiona shares her wisdom in various fields she has been exposed to over many years, including; business, human resource management, education, psychology, health and exercise physiology.
Garry Chong
Garry has a strong reputation for being an inclusive leader that is client oriented and is known for his ability to quickly gain rapport and understand their needs, whilst also being able to demonstrate added value through constructive analysis and critical thinking.
He is a seasoned management consultant and qualified Chartered Accountant, who has demonstrable experience in the areas of business strategy, business transformation, finance transformation, operating model design, organisational structure review and design, enterprise performance management, operational and functional reviews and operational improvement. Garry has held a senior leadership position in the Strategy and Operations division of the Deloitte Consulting Practice.
Garry has broad and deep industry experience, covering the end-to-end spectrum of program and project lifecycles. He is results focussed and has delivered tangible outcomes for clients, working across various industries including resources, oil & gas, retail, manufacturing, education, public sector and utilities.
Scott Bywaters
Scott is known for achieving impact by employing structured problem solving to support high quality decision making.
Scott is an MBA and CPA-qualified strategy and operations consultant with a blend of experience across management consulting and in-house finance and accounting roles, including senior roles in BHP and Woodside Energy.
Scott’s strengths include his ability to quickly understand and synthesise data and information which enables him to quickly frame solutions to problems, and his growth mindset which enables him to identify opportunities and define the objectives they meet. He aspires to continue gaining reach and having impact in sectors and industries which themselves have reach and impact in important areas of economic and social development.