Our People

Bernie Kelly

Managing Director

Experience

As the leader of the Intelog Healthcare Performance Group Bernie is a trusted advisor and coach to leading Healthcare Re-designers.  He works with leaders through to the frontline in promoting and delivering sustainable healthcare performance improvement in Australia.

Bernie is an innovation leader in promoting and delivering sustainable business and healthcare performance improvement in Australia.  His capability is firmly based on twenty years of business performance improvement with the twelve of those years in senior management and director roles with leading organisations (local and global), leading teams of up to 1000 people in major performance improvement initiatives.  He has had the over-arching change program leader role for such things as multi-million dollar year on year cost reductions, capacity expansion, new asset / facility implementation, corporate governance, ERP implementations, quality, safety, and environmental systems and internal financial control systems implementation.

Recent healthcare performance improvement engagements include:

Cabrini Health strategy formation and deployment planning, Cabrini Health Cancer Service Redesign, Cabrini Health Clinical Governance & Nurse Leadership development programs, Cabrini Cardiac Patient process improvement; Southern Health reVIEW; Austin Health reVIEW; Mercy Health Aged Care Services Service Manager coaching; DHS Barwon Diabetes 2 regional Big Picture Workshops; The Royal Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH) Cataract Surgery Big Picture Workshop and redesign implementation plan, RVEEH reVIEW; Health Purchasing Victoria / Southern Health Syringe Journey, supply to ward mapping workshop and implementation plan; Calvary ACT regional palliative care journey; UFS Dispensaries supply chain improvement program; Uniting Care Ageing HR processes analysis and recruitment processes redesign; SMICS reVIEW based cancer performance improvement program.

Qualifications

• Master of Business
• Graduate Diploma
• Bachelor Social Science (Honours)
• Australasian trainer/mentor of Healthcare reVIEW© program

Memberships

• Associate Fellow Australian College of Health Service Management
• Member of Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Member of Association of Manufacturing Excellence
• Member of Logistics Association of Australia (LAA)
• Member of Supply Chain and Logistics Association of Australia (SCLAA

Andrew Stewart

Executive Director & Founder

Experience

Andrew has thirty four years pioneering experience in systems and organisation wide performance improvement across most industries and services. As one of the innovation, change and value chain leaders in Australia he is a leader in industry and leadership change – facilitating, training and mentoring individuals and groups in seeing and understanding the potential and requirements for sustainable performance improvement.

His major role is working with organisation leaders in deploying strategies and policies to achieve objectives and developing frameworks and structures to achieve sustainable success.  A key capability is the training and mentoring of leaders in change management and people engagement that ensures sustainable success.

Andrew worked with Professor Peter Hines in introducing Lean Enterprise thinking in Australia and is a lean trainer and lead consultant.  Consistent with all Intelog people he is a hands-on and practical change leader that works well with leaders and frontline people.

Recognised as the Victorian Supply Chain Professional of 2010 (SCLAA)

Recent experience in Healthcare has been:

Assisting Cabrini leadership with Strategy formation and deployment; Southern Health reVIEW; Austin Health reVIEW; DHS Barwon Diabetes 2 regional Big Picture Workshops; The Royal Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH) Cataract Surgery Big Picture Workshop and redesign implementation plan; Health Purchasing Victoria / Southern Health Syringe Journey, supply to ward mapping workshop and implementation plan; Calvary ACT regional palliative care journey; UFS Dispensaries supply chain improvement program; Uniting Care Ageing HR processes analysis and recruitment processes redesign, and leadership training; Centrelink Lean introduction and training.

Memberships

• Logistics Association of Australia (LAA)
• Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME)
• Supply Chain and Logistics association of Australia (SCLAA)
• Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)

Annie Atkins

Associate Director

Experience

During a long and varied career in health, including work in clinical areas and in health reform, Annie has become passionate about engaging frontline healthcare clinicians in implementing sustainable improvement in care. This passion has lead Annie to also educating and coaching frontline workers across other industries in the areas of process redesign and workplace performance improvement.

As a facilitator, trainer and coach Annie has delivered and participated in continuous improvement programs, diagnostic analysis and process improvement solution and led multi-disciplinary/clinical improvement teams across a range of health and business process activities development.

Annie has extensive healthcare experience as a Registered Nurse - John Hunter Hospital Hunter New England Health , Knox Private Hospital Melbourne; Mercy Private Hospital Melbourne; Prince Henry’s Hospital Melbourne; Royal Children’s’ Hospital Melbourne. She was the Project Officer- Maggie Project- Operating Theatres- John Hunter Hospital, a major patient journey improvement initiative held as one of the most successful in NSW Health. Project Manager Aged Care Practitioner Project, Health Workforce Australia, Workforce Planning in Hunter New England Health.

Recent performance Improvement engagements include facilitating the RVEEH reVIEW problem solving training program; faciliatating the Uniting Care Ageing HR processes analysis and recruitment processes redesign; facilitating and supporting the Centrelink Jobseeker Lifecycle Process redesign.

Qualifications

• Graduate Certificate of Nursing
• OPSCA- Trauma Management Course
• MIMMS- Disaster Management Course
• Licensed Lean reVIEW Instructor
• Six Sigma Trained – Greenbelt
• Lean Process – Greenbelt                                  
• Commenced  Master of Business Administration - Newcastle University
• Completed Graduate Certificate of Business