About Rainman Advisory
Transformation is hard. Not because the technology does not work or the people are not trying.
It is hard because organisations underestimate what they have signed up for.
The patterns are predictable. Scope defined before the problem is understood. Reporting that tracks activity instead of risk. Decisions deferred until the cost of delay becomes the cost of failure. And nobody willing to say it out loud until millions have already been spent.
Rainman Advisory was built to say it out loud. Early. With evidence.
We are a specialist transformation consultancy focused on one thing: giving leaders an independent view of the status of their most complex programs and projects. Then helping them decide what to do about it.
Based in Brisbane. Working across Queensland Government and financial services.
Meet Dave Lockley
I have worked in transformation delivery across Australia, the UK, and Sub-Saharan Africa for over 25 years. Most of that time was spent inside programs that were harder than anyone expected them to be.
I built the Change Assurance function at QSuper and ran the EPMO for 10 months, reducing a 30% portfolio overspend back to within budget. After the merger with Sunsuper, I built the Portfolio Assurance Framework for Australian Retirement Trust and provided assurance on a $200M strategic change portfolio reporting to the Board and APRA. At Bank of Queensland I was Program Director for a $30M head office relocation that finished ahead of schedule with $700K in savings.
In South Africa I led the transformation of the National Prosecuting Authority, built the finance capability for the Social Services Agency to distribute $6.8 billion in social grants, and rehabilitated a failing program at Barclays Africa that recovered a $10M shortfall in projected benefits.
The common thread is always the same. Complex program. High stakes. Something not working. My job was to find out what and fix it.
I translate between the people doing the work and the people making the decisions. That is what I am good at. It means running diagnostics that surface the real picture, not the PowerPoint version. And then staying to help fix what the diagnostic finds.
Credentials
Panel Registrations
LocalBuy LB309 – Management Consultancy Services LocalBuy LB343 – Project Management
Queensland Procurement Solution — Registered Vendor
Qualifications
BA Economics, Psychology
Postgraduate Diploma in Management
MBA (Behavioural Economics Thesis)
MSP Practitioner
PRINCE2 Practitioner
Partnerships
PwC
Scyne Advisory
In the Media
Project Chatter Podcast
I joined the Project Chatter team to talk about why transformation programs still fail despite all the frameworks and technology we throw at them. We covered watermelon projects, why PowerPoint might be the worst thing that ever happened to project governance, and what happens when 24 projects go to EXCO for approval in a single meeting.