TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
It is with pleasure that I provide this letter of recommendation for Ian Hulbert.
Ian is CEO of SME Keystone Leadership. For the past two decades, he has worked in Senior SME leadership roles, where he was able to bring to the table and leverage his vast work and consulting experience in refining and improving workplace systems; managing Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) Programs; dealing with time management and resource optimisation challenges; constructing Front Line sales leadership and customer mapping data for optimal CRM deployment; introducing the benefits of advanced digitisation; and generally, in managing change for positive outcomes.
Ian’s significant talents emerge from the fact that he is passionately driven by an innate capability to not only get the job done but also by his finely tuned capacity to rapidly sort the wheat from the chaff and not waste time on issues that don’t bring incremental value to his client's business and their ultimate bottom line. He is highly motivated in bringing to bear his commitment to continuous learning. He is honest, utterly reliable, and importantantly he doesn’t make promises he knows can’t be realistically delivered on.
I first met Ian in 2012, when I was consulting to a Brisbane company he was working for at that time. His initial job had been in managing their WHS program, but it quickly became evident that Ian had capabilities that reached far beyond the Safety realm he had been initially retained for. In quick time he became the critical go to person in that business in dealing with a broad range of other roles including driving the adoption of digital technology initiatives.
Ian was also my valued collaborator in penning the first and second editions of our book: SME Leadership: The 5 Critical Success Factors. In 2013, I first showed Ian the bare bones of my Time Management System, which was to be included in the book. He came back with some great questions, supported by an excellent eyes-of-the-beholder summary that included templates of how he believed my system could work best for him. But he was also able to demonstrate how he had already adapted management of his MS outlook diary to incorporate the core habits, routines, priorities, and disciplines embedded in the system. Ian followed the same logic in collaborating with me on the Critical Success Factor 4, Managing Time chapters and has already completed a good slice of the early groundwork for a digital version of the system.
Over time, I found Ian’s contribution to the entire book so valuable that I happily decided to designate him as my co-author of our book.
I can’t speak too highly of Ian’s capacity to deliver valuable outcomes to whatever task he is undertaking.
I would be pleased to take further enquiries about Ian’s valuable capabilities,
Kind Regards,
John A Goddard, F Fin