Who are we?

Roger McInerney

Roger McInerney is principal of Creative inTension. Roger was a director of the consulting firm Best Practices for 9 years prior to establishing Creative inTension in 2001.

Roger’s background includes time as a professional tennis coach, wine consultant, Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force, Geology and Physics teacher and Management Consultant.

He is widely recognised as an outstanding facilitator, in a wide range of contexts, and as a person who can really help groups and individuals in working through challenging problems and situations.

Warren "Wally" Sowter

Warren has a diverse background in leadership, management and business. His leadership experience includes supervisory and officer posts in the military; a period as a Regional Manager in the retail banking sector; and leader roles in community groups. Business experience includes Regional Sales Leadership; Business Development; and regional marketing. His technical background includes automotive and plant maintenance in vehicle workshops, construction environments and peace-keeping operations.

Warren is an accomplished facilitator and coach. He is highly regarded for his ability to independently facilitate groups as diverse as community action meetings, workplace teams, EBA and consultative committees, and senior management teams. His coaching skills have been honed through many years of professional and personal coaching of individuals and groups including: senior managers, supervisors, CEOs and skill competitors in international competitions. Warren coached a Gold medallist and a Silver medallist in International Youth Skill Olympics.

Always a learner, Warren is currently researching the management of change for his doctoral thesis. He believes it is possible to ‘predict’, to some extent, the potential success of change initiatives in a business through analysis of ‘values alignment’.

John Lund

John used to ‘do’ school teaching in the late seventies and early eighties. He then went on to ‘do’ restaurateur.

In another career change John then used to train people in the Royal Australian Air Force about how to be leaders, although most only wanted to learn about how to do leadership. He then used to do Corporate Services Director, but couldn’t become a Public Servant.

So, with the values, beliefs and capabilities of what he used to do and who with now who he is, what he now believes he does is, talk to people in organisations about what they are doing well and what they could do differently in the future to make their workplaces more effective.

Sheona Beach

Sheona is an excellent communicator.

She sees employees as individuals with their own values, beliefs and personal lives – all combining to create a living, breathing organisation. She challenges and stretches individuals and teams to show them how to improve their goals and change their futures.

Sheona has qualifications in Business Administration, Training and Assessment Systems and Frontline Management. She is currently working on a Master Degree of Leadership in Workplace Development.

Sheona is an NLP Master Practitioner, Master Facilitator, Accredited Emotional Intelligence Assessor, Accredited Myers Briggs (MBTI) Consultant, and an experienced corporate trainer and facilitator.

She has worked within, consulted to and trained people in the mining industry since 1995. She understands the issues and work demands associated with the industry.

Her background includes time as a television presenter, radio announcer, communications advisor and business skills trainer. She owns her own training company and powers the success of the organisation. She has a reputation for being passionate and direct.

Anita Roubicek

Anita has worked as a Learning and Development consultant for the past 11 years.

She has designed, implemented and delivered practical training solutions needs for various organisations, notably Qantas, Westpac Banking Corporation and Zurich Financial Services.

During this time Anita specialised in the areas of Change Management, Leadership Development, Virtual Teams and Coaching.

Anita's background includes 12 years with the National Australia Bank. Her roles ranged from Service Officer, Business Development Manager, Branch/Service Manager of a large Commercial branch to Senior Management Training Consultant.

The experience with the National Australia Bank gives Anita a strong business outcome focus as well as ensuring all learning and development interventions align with organisational goals, vision and strategy. Anita has found this experience is crucial to the success of any learning initiative.

During her time with the Learning & Development department of National Australia Bank, Anita became licensed to facilitate externally accredited Stress Management and Leadership Development programmes. These are based around neuropsychology principles. Anita conducted these programmes with senior managers nationally. Anita has accreditation and certification in a range of diagnostic tools that support organisational change and individual development.

Anita’s great strengths and interest lie in designing and facilitating Change Programmes. She works equally well on a small or large group level to assist with self management and change issues within an organisation.

Anita continues to work with clients to support and incorporate strategic organisational goals with the needs of the individual in an ever-changing environment.

Robert H Scott

Bob has extensive experience within human resources as manager, developer and planner. He also has a very strong background, and interest, in human learning and behaviour.

Bob has worked in the private and public sector, including positions as senior HR manager in the public sector, officer in the RAAF and extensive work consulting in the private sector.

Having held a variety of management positions in different realms of the community and business world, Bob has developed good liaison and advocacy skills. He has well developed "people" skills and the ability to provide effective leadership to a diverse range of personalities and professions. He has been described as an energetic, highly efficient "self starter" who inspires confidence.

Bob has attained a Bachelor of Arts (Education), as well as a Master of Business (Human Resource Management).

Blazena McInerney

Blazena has worked as a teacher and sport and recreation officer before stepping out of the workforce to have two children. On returning she has worked in customer service in Westpac and Optus. She has experienced an organisation from start up as she was involved in Optus in its formative years. She enjoyed dealing with customers and fellow staff members, dealing with their enquiries and solving problems.

She is interested in people and how they communicate and interact. She also has an interest in personal development which results in a particular focus on self management and change. She is accredited in MBTI and is currently studying for a BA in Philosophy. She finds yoga provides an excellent conduit for understanding the self from both a personal and professional level.
Blazena is the resource person within the group and will be your first point of contact for general enquiries.