Malcolm Armstrong
Global Vice President, People & Organisation, Mars Inc. United States
"I have partnered with Sandy Betts on numerous significant business initiatives over the last twenty years. These have ranged from facilitation of senior management business strategy planning, planning and advice on major strategic change initiatives, operational planning of change management activities, employee relations strategy through to personal and executive coaching. Her advice, knowledge and personal experience is second to none, and she provides a refreshingly candid approach to cutting through the noise to identify and then address root cause issues. The outcomes achieved from this work have been transformational for our organisation."
Mark Clark
Chair and Board Director. Former Managing Director, Australasia, Coca-Cola Amatil
"Sandy Betts worked closely with myself and other senior executive team of CCA, in developing a comprehensive organisational plan, which incorporated a major shift in the way Coca-Cola Amatil does business with its customers. Sandra's professionalism and experience in understanding the requirements to successfully deliver transformational organisational change was very evident in the way she systematically worked with us through all aspects of the plan. Sandra challenged us to the core of our business and leadership and drove us to deliver extraordinary outcomes. I have no hesitation in recommending Sandra and her organisation to anyone who is contemplating organisational change and wants a great strategist and unbiased cut through.
David Ansell
Global President,
the Nutro Company,
USA (Mars inc.)
"I have worked extensively with Sandy for over 20 years. First, as a colleague delivering a major business turnaround and over the past seventeen years, as a highly valued consultant to Mars Inc. Sandy gets businesses and the issues they face in driving business change outcomes, developing talent, building capabilities and optimizing organizational effectiveness. She is hands on in her approach and has developed amazing support over a sustained period within every organization she has worked with. While she is a brilliant change management & HR resource, her "value add" is anchored in her ability to think strategically, to provide break through thinking and to simplify the complex. I recommend her highly to any organization wanting a high level resource that can drive a powerful change agenda"
“You are absolute stars!”
“Sandy has been a huge help to me over the years”.
Scott Weitemeyer
CEO, Goodman Fielder Limited
Julie Coates
Board Director and Managing Director, Former Director Business Transformation, Woolworths Limited
and CEO Big W
"Sandy Betts has provided valuable insights into the strength of our current, and future opportunities for our strategic management of human resources across Woolworths Limited. Sandy provides input and feedback on all aspects of our human resource strategy and organisation structure and always offers a highly valued perspective. I find working with Sandy very beneficial, as she provides a invaluable 'external' strategic perspective and always challenges my thinking on issues"
"Sandra was instrumental in the re-engineering of Lion Nathan's unprofitable Pepsi Cola business. The results of her efforts led to a restructured and profitable business. Sandra is an individual with high integrity who complements her tough minded commercial strengths with compassion for doing the right thing for the employees in her charge."
William Wilson
President, Pepsi Cola New York (formerly Managing Director, Pepsi Cola Bottlers Australia)
Simone Ellis
Marketing Director Japan & Korea, Air NZ
"Sandy’s incisive assessment and rock-solid judgement of any people-centric situation is matched only by an open heart and generous spirit that puts miles between her and others in the business. I have sought Sandy’s wise counsel in times of both career and life crisis. She has seen me through big decisions and critical negotiations. She recently prepared me for a senior international role. I landed the role, and I owe it to Sandy. She’s equal parts confidante, advisor and secret weapon!"
“Thanks again Sandy for your amazing direction and energy through this project… the team really appreciate it!”
Heidi Brooks
People & Organisation Manager - Supply,
Mars Petcare Australia
“Sandy, You set the bar pretty high for the other Directors contributions!!!”
“Today we (Sandy Betts and myself) were hosted by Australia’s Ambassador to the UN Ambassador Sally Mansfield at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland. We had representatives from the U.S., E.U., UN Women, UNHCR, Home Affairs, the International Labour Organisation and the International Organisation for Migration and UN Ambassadors from Korea to Kenya. How did all of this happen?...our Chair Sandra Betts leveraging her network that will forever change the future of CareerSeekers”.
Michael Combs
Founder and CEO, CareerSeekers and
CareerTrackers
“Have heard so much great stuff about you Sandy - thanks so much for the great support you provide our team in Australia. My greatest appreciation.”
Margaret Mitchell
Vice President
People & Organization at Mars, Asia Pacific
“The step change in the Director’s confidence, direction and impact in the business and the strength of their key stakeholder engagement has been clearly evident, since working with Sandy Betts (executive coaching). It has been so rewarding to see this change”
Shane Richardson
Managing Director,
Alcohol & Coffee, Coca-Cola Amatil
“You have no idea what your contribution was Sandy, it's all about people and you architected this team... sincere thanks to you”
Tim Deane
Managing Director, Goodman Fielder NZ
"The Human Difference came highly recommended by Coca-Cola South Pacific and Coca-Cola Amatil, both of whom have used as organisational strategists and change program architects. i have found their counsel to be invaluable. They are completely familiar with our culture. Their consulting expertise in driving successful business change and executive search process is extremely professional and they have sourced and placed outstanding talent for our organisation".
Mark Buckman
Group Managing Director, Media & Marketing, Telstra
"The Human Difference delivered outstanding results working with our leadership team and in delivering exceptional talent in our recent CFO & Head of Marketing and Sales Director ANZ searches. We are eternally indebted to you for the contribution this has made to the success of our business."
David Ansell
Managing Director,
JDE
“By way of feedback Michele van der Walt, CEO Kerry Group, was extremely impressed with both the quality of the candidates CV’s against her communicated requirements, and the speed of response – so thanks very much to you, Belinda and Sandy!”
Jane Rundle
VP HR Director Asia Pacific Kerry Group
“Sandy Betts played a significant role in guiding us through the strategic development of our business plans. As a newly formed executive team, we required a unified approach to develop and deliver a plan to achieve aggressive business transformation. Sandy was required to gain a deep understanding of the business dynamics, leadership styles and personalities in a very short period of time, which then enabled her to work as an extension of our team, to guide, facilitate and agitate our thinking across several strategy sessions. All members of the leadership team were incredibly impressed with Sandy’s ability to understand our complex business and her innate capability to ask the right questions and draw on her own depth of experience and relevant case studies to bring us to a single-minded approach to our business challenges. Sandy’s wisdom and ways of working were integral to the success of our planning process and empowered and encouraged all stakeholder inputs. We were able to achieve in a day, what we had struggled to articulate for months. This was mostly due to the insight Sandy brought to the table and her ability to help us harness our own thinking into a structured and usable application that is the framework for our transformation strategy.”
Stacey Knox
Head of Engagement & Partnerships,
Inchcape Australia Limited
“Feedback was fantastic! The team feel really positive about the session, they feel the honesty was refreshing and feel energised by the action orientation of the day. Everybody loved you.”
Angela Richards
Chief Marketing Officer, YUM!
"Sandra is undeniably one of this country's leading HR practitioners. She is bright, incisive and decisive, a commercially oriented professional who displays a real penchant for driving through change.... Sandra was a prime mover behind an organisational change process that transformed a major branded industrial & retail business. she is an excellent HR strategist, is highly numerate, and displays a well-developed insight into people and process. Sandra Betts would be a tonic to any business seeking to optimise its performance"
Harry Petropoulos
Board Director and CEO. Former Managing Director, Biscuit & Cake Division,
George Weston Foods
"We have partnered with Sandy Betts and Belinda Carnovale of The Human Difference for seventeen years, working together on some of our most critical talent projects. They really understand our business and helped us achieve outstanding results. We value our relationship with the Human Difference and recommend them without reservation"
Paula Earl-Peacock Divisional Director - People & Organisation,
Mars Petcare Australia
"Sandy, on behalf of the Orica Mining Services HR team, I would like to thank you for your stimulating, highly inspirational and highly relevant strategy session. The session certainly has triggered debate among the team and was the perfect set up for our business and strategy planning session that followed."
Craig Murphy
Manager, HR Australia & Asia, Orica Mining Services
“Your advice and support throughout has been absolutely priceless.”
Brett Brown
Operations Director,
Mars Petcare
"Sandy is one of the most professional and experienced HR specialists I have worked with over the past 25 years as a CEO and executive consultant. She demonstrated her exceptional strategic thinking and leadership skills in some tough environments where change was required to transform businesses. I have no hesitation recommending Sandy for assignments where she is engaged by the CEO as a trusted advisor in recruitment, HR issues or strategic change consulting."
Greg Loudoun
Founder & CEO,
Acumen International Pty Ltd
“The value you added in the Business Strategy planning sessions were absolutely 'game changing'. A year later, the team are still working with it and it has gone viral across the organization. Brilliant!”
Dr. Jan Owen AO
CEO, Foundation for Young Australians
“I have heard some really positive feedback from Brett and the leadership team on the journey you are starting with them, and thanks for connecting them with other external companies to stretch their thinking…”
Andy Turner
VP Supply,
Mars Asia Pacific
"The Human Difference have proved integral to BHP's first foray into the new markets and business models. they have provided invaluable strategic advice, support and consulting in addition to the sourcing of exceptional talent critical for the business's successful launch. This business, our people and myself personally have found enormous value in our partnership."
Lindsey Hughson
President, Global Brand Strategy, BHP Billiton
“At a Global Leadership Conference in 2019, we were asked to share the key pivotal moment in our career that was a “game-changer”. Sandy, you were that moment! Having met me for the first time, your amazing ability to relate to me and make me feel at ease, gave me instant permission to bring my full self to the connection. Your professional and caring nature allowed for honest, constructive and meaningful coaching sessions that have helped me at various stages throughout my career and life journey over the past 15 years! Today I still admire your brilliant mind, powerful personality and tender heart. Thank you for being a great role model and mentor in a world where it is difficult to find that type of personal and professional connection”.
Sarah Little
Regional Director
Mars Inc
“My feedback (re: Leadership Team Executive Search/appointment) is not good, not great, not excellent…but absolutely brilliant! You delivered an outstanding outcome, right on brief and with unprecedented speed”.
Michele Vanderwalt
CEO
Kerry Group
Andrew Murray
Executive Chairman
Functional Foods Global
“Fantastic and insightful Report, thank you for a great piece of work, it has certainly provided the Board with a lot of clarity”.
“Thanks Sandy and Belinda, convinced that (the candidate for Country Manager) is a great leader for this amazing business with so many upsides and opportunities as we discussed. Appreciate all your efforts and definitely got the right candidate”.
Kate Mason
Group Director
People & Culture
Coca Cola Amatil
“Sandy, thank you! Your insights and feedback were incredibly strategic and thought provoking. (Our confidential client) is buzzing and your input will be incorporated into our plan”.
Ruth Johnstone
Director Private Wealth
Network and Senior Advisor
Wendy Brooks & Partners
Nicole Sparshott
President Unilever ANZ and Global Chief Executive Officer T2, formerly Global Vice President
Unilever, Singapore
“Sandy, I was reflecting on how much of a positive role you have made in my career choices throughout my career and wanted to reach out and thank you”.
“Sandy Betts partnered Macquarie Bank on a number of key strategic projects, including change management consulting, including HR strategy and workforce planning to ensure capacity and capability to deliver our market expansion internationally and talent acquisition. Her counsel, insights and value add is highly respected across the business and the project outcomes exceptional”.
Jen Helm
HRD
Macquarie Bank
Financial Services Group
“Sandy Betts partnered Yum! Asia in conducting an extensive Listening Review across our Team and Franchise Partners and facilitating our Asia strategy conference and then our GM Roundtable in Singapore, including the key business owners and franchise partners. This led to a significant shift in the planning process delivering an aligned business strategy and step change outcomes for our team, region and business. The presentation of this work to our Global stakeholders in Dallas went incredibly well and thoroughly endorsed for the approach and franchise alignment. Sandy played a big part in this. I have found her counsel invaluable for myself and the team”.
Valerie Kubizniak
Vice President, Asia
YUM!
“Sandy Betts has worked with Prospection over the past few years, on organisation reviews and facilitation of the business strategy and advisory role on people and organisation. Most recently Sandy Betts conducted a Listening Review with our Leadership Team and our Board including private equity investors and facilitated an open circle session. I find her insights incredibly valuable. Sandy consistently delivers significant value in ways beyond the original brief. In designing and facilitating our Board Strategy Off-site which including the Board, Investors and Leadership Team, Sandy allowed us to achieve strategic, leadership and team alignment outcomes”.
Eric Chung
Founder and CEO
Prospection
“Sandy and Belinda have delivered a sensational outcome for our business on a key role, they did an outstanding job and have been excellent to work with”.