The Team
Salient consulting is a diverse team that provides practical solutions in the areas in law enforcement, government policy, while bringing academic expertise and broad leadership experience to each job.
Graham
Ashton
Graham has an international reputation as an advisor on matters of law enforcement and sports integrity. He has addressed many audiences nationally and internationally regarding law enforcement, sports integrity and corruption. As a former Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria, Australia, he established the world’s first police ‘Sports Integrity Intelligence Unit’.
Graham has led internationally significant investigations and counter-terrorism operations. He was the Forward Commander for the Australian investigation into the 2002 Bali bombings for the joint Australian and Indonesian task force - located in Bali. For this work he was made a member of the Order of Australia. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Management (QUT) and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Graham has also been a visiting fellow at the University of Wollongong and has completed the Strategic Leadership Program at London Business School. Graham is also a former board member of the Australian Institute of Police Managment.
After more than 40 years in policing, Graham has a unique combination of management and leadership skills having led a force of over 20,000 people with an annual budget in the billions from 2015 – 2020.
Liz Sutton
Having lived in a number of Australian capital cities and overseas, and working in them, Liz is acutely aware of the way government structures influence service delivery. She has delivered a number of change management initiatives at the state and national level. These have included legislation change relating to tobacco control to improve public health outcomes. Other areas she has effected change in are the organ and tissue donation sector - where her work and that of her team members led to the establishment of Donate Life; and recently as the National Lead for a program aiming to improve patient agency when patients have lost the ability to communicate - namely the management of Advance Care Planning Australia.
Liz completed a PhD in 2019 examining patient agency in the context of pain relief requests made by women in labour and how these were responded to by health care staff. She has completed numerous consulting projects on public health policy, communications issues faced by organisations, information management restructuring and technical medical issues. She is currently engaged as a Research Fellow at Monash University examining public attitudes to genomics technology. Liz is available to assist your business with service delivery and management challenges and can assist with technical expertise in health care service delivery.
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