Garry has worked as a union full time official for over three decades. He has worked for a number of unions over his career and most recently served as the Deputy General Secretary of the trade union Prospect for more than a decade. He currently works with employers and unions to support workforce engagement, manage transformational change, improve employee and industrial relations and support the development of organisational strategy and operational delivery.

His key focus is assisting the organisations he works with to build organisational capability and capacity in order to enable them to make proactive decisions. He believes how organisations respond to the ERA and the new provisions in relation to trade union recognition, consultation and recognition will be pivotal to organisational success.

Garry has worked as a senior leader, organisational advocate, experienced senior negotiator, industrial relations and conflict resolution expert, HR, change management, pay and reward and employment law specialist.

He has over twenty years’ experience as a senior industrial relation expert and has spent the majority of that time working at board level but with a hands on operational focus. His emphasis has been to promote partnership working, conflict resolution and a collaborative approach to problem solving, particularly in fast paced safety-critical industries with a commercial focus. He has also worked closely with trade unions, employers and other stakeholders as an advocate of the aviation, defence, energy, nuclear and public sectors. He is used to working at a local, national and transnational level to problem solve and assist organisations to develop and implement operational strategy and meet key business objectives.

As well as highly developed negotiating and stakeholder engagement skills Garry is experienced at operating in highly political environments, dealing with the press and media and presenting evidence to Parliamentary Select Committees, Regulators and other key political and organisational stakeholder.