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Sam Scurrah Advisory partners with organisations to define strategy, align leadership, and deliver complex transformation initiatives. We specialise in translating strategy into clear priorities, executable roadmaps, and governance frameworks—ensuring organisations move from intent to measurable outcomes.

Services

Strategy Planning & Delivery

Supporting organisations to define clear strategic direction and translate it into actionable plans. Our approach combines structured analysis with practical implementation planning—ensuring strategy is grounded in organisational context and capability and can be effectively delivered. Services include: ✓Enterprise and organisational strategic planning ✓Strategy facilitation and executive workshops ✓Strategic initiative identification and prioritisation ✓Strategy implementation roadmaps and delivery planning ✓Benefits definition and performance measures

Organisational Change Management

Helping organisations navigate the people side of strategy and transformation. We focus on building alignment, engaging stakeholders, and embedding sustainable change—ensuring initiatives are adopted and deliver intended outcomes. Services include: ✓Change strategy and approach development ✓Stakeholder engagement and communication planning ✓Change impact and readiness assessments ✓Leadership alignment and capability support ✓Change delivery and adoption monitoring

Programs and Projects

Establish and support the delivery of complex programs and projects aligned to strategic priorities. We focus on clarity, governance, and accountability to ensure initiatives are coordinated and delivered effectively. Services include: ✓Program and project governance design ✓Program establishment and mobilisation ✓Portfolio and prioritisation frameworks ✓Delivery oversight and performance reporting ✓Benefits realisation and tracking

Stakeholder Alignment

Supporting organisations to build alignment and momentum across leadership teams and key stakeholders. Through structured engagement and skilled facilitation, we enable clear, constructive conversations that build shared ownership and support effective decision-making. Services include: ✓Executive and stakeholder workshop facilitation ✓Stakeholder mapping and engagement strategies ✓Leadership alignment sessions ✓Strategic decision-making forums ✓Communication and engagement planning

Profile

Sam is an MBA-qualified consultant with over 15 years’ experience delivering complex transformation initiatives across government, health, emergency services, utilities, higher education, and regulated industries. He specialises in organisational change management, program establishment, stakeholder engagement, and governance frameworks that enable strategic objectives to be realised. Sam is known for his pragmatic, hands-on approach — equally comfortable advising executive leadership and working alongside operational teams to ensure outcomes are achieved.

Experience

Selected experience across strategy, transformation and delivery includes:

  • Department for Education, Children and Young People (DECYP)

    Program Leadership & Reform Delivery
     

    Led the design and establishment of a large, complex reform program implementing 18 recommendations arising from an external audit of the Advice and Referral Line (child safety front door service). The work focused on mobilising a multi-stream program of work, establishing governance, and supporting strategic redesign of intake services.


    Key Deliverables & Outcomes
     

    • Program mobilisation, planning, and establishment of delivery structures

    • Design of governance frameworks and steering committee implementation

    • Development of resourcing models and program delivery approach

    • Change impact assessment and executive coaching support

    • Facilitation of strategic design for a future state child intake service, informed by research and expert consultation

  • Department of Health

    Organisational Change Management & Transformation
     

    Led organisational change and communications across multiple programs and projects spanning the COVID-19 pandemic through to early implementation of the Digital Health Strategy. Work focused on enabling adoption of critical initiatives, supporting system-wide change, and strengthening capability across complex stakeholder environments.
     

    Key Deliverables & Outcomes

    • Design and delivery of statewide change and communication strategies across multiple initiatives, including the award winning Statewide eReferrals implementation

    • Support for large-scale service adaptation during COVID-19, including Telehealth and Virtual Care uplift

    • Change leadership across early-stage digital health strategy development & implementation

    • Development of a business case and transition into delivery of a complex outpatient reform initiative

    • Commercial and vendor management, including addressing underperformance and leveraging contractual protections

    • Stakeholder engagement across clinical, operational, and executive groups
       

    Recognition:

    • Change Strategy and implementation for statewide eReferrals program, awarded Best Delivery of an ICT Project at the TasICT Awards

  • TasNetworks

    Project Leadership & Regulatory Transformation
     

    Led the establishment of a subsidiary entity to ring-fence unregulated business activities in compliance with National Energy Market (NEM) regulatory requirements. The work involved coordinating across multiple business units to design and implement structural, governance, and operational changes aligned to regulatory obligations. A complex strategic project which required alignment across multiple vertical business units to ensure service continuity and commercial viability for the new entity.
     

    Key Deliverables & Outcomes 
     

    • End-to-end project leadership for establishment of a new subsidiary entity

    • Coordination across legal, commercial, finance, and operational stakeholders

    • Design and implementation of governance and operating structures

    • Application of change management strategies to support organisational transition

    • Alignment of business processes to meet regulatory compliance requirements

  • Additional Experience

    Selected engagements across government and public sector organisations, supporting strategy, transformation, and delivery:
     

    • Department of Police, Fire & Emergency Management (DPFEM) – Designed a structured change framework to assess and mitigate business impacts for implementation of an Emergency Services CAD system (ESCAD).

    • Tasmanian Fire Service – Established a Program Management Office and governance framework; developed project prioritisation and approval processes aligning investment to strategic outcomes.

    • WorkSafe Tasmania / Department of Justice – Delivered a scaled change strategy for an Inspectorate information management system, enabling strong executive sponsorship and engagement.

    • University of Tasmania – Developed organisational change strategies for technology-enabled transformation and established a reusable change methodology.

    • Hydro Tasmania – Led change for SAP SuccessFactors implementation and organisational restructure, including workforce transition support.

    • Ambulance Tasmania – Designed and delivered change strategies for the Secondary Triage and VACIS upgrade initiatives.

    • Department of Treasury and Finance – Delivered change strategy for the Budget Information Management System (BIMS) across multiple departments and finance functions.

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