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Tracy Stanley

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I loved the adventures of 'The Secret Seven' as a child: a small troupe solving mysteries together, often on their bicycles. Their exploits inspired my career in foreign lands and interest in understanding what makes a great team.

I've enjoyed a fabulous consulting and corporate career working within travel, technology, government, financial services, mining, manufacturing, education and health sectors.

Specialities: Human Resource Management, Organisational Change, Employee Engagement, Encouraging Creative Behaviours, Innovation, Intrapreneurship, Knowledge Development and Transfer.

Key achievements: Working effectively with key stakeholders to deliver organisational change initiatives within different cultural contexts.

Transferable skills: T ...more

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Inspiration for Crime Quiz

I have my friend Debbie to thank for the idea for the opening scene in Crime Quiz. She’d just returned from a cruise off the coast of Western Australia where the passengers were woken at 5.00am in the morning by an announcement that five people had died overnight.

At first, I didn’t believe her, who would do that? I then laughed, before thinking about all the gossip that must have spread faster tha

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	Change Stories: Success and failure in changing organisations 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soft Nut Bike Tour of Burma: Exploring the less travelled roads of Myanmar by Tracy Stanley (Goodreads Author), Les Stanley 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Engagement Whisperer: A quieter and more collaborative approach to inspiring your team 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creativity Cycling: Help your team solve complex problems with creative tools by Barbara A. Wilson (Goodreads Author), Tracy Stanley (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cannes Encore!: Travel in the time of Covid 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Turned the last page and found myself thinking about these women and this desolate and dystopian future. A clever book.
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My word. What a well-researched reveal — about a life of boundless opportunities available to someone with the fairy dust of royalty. ‘She seemed able to attract, but also to spend, money in a way that mortals struggled to understand.’ (Page 151). Th ...more
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Beautiful book. Lovely reflections on the places visited.
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Interesting to travel vicariously to Mongolia. Got a real feel for the countryside and often derelict towns they visited. A very blokey, Antipodean memoir; coarse at times with several references to masturbation and constipation. Liked the cross-cult ...more
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Utterly delightful. Loved the hours I spent with Frederick Fife. A heartfelt and funny novel about mistaken identities and life in a dementia wing.
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