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Stephen Hale

Managing DirectorStephen Hale

Stephen brings very strong and diverse experience gained from working across a number of industries in a range of different senior roles.

Stephen works with project teams to develop and drive communication campaigns for a range of clients, however, his true passion at Impact has been to develop and drive its now rapidly-growing sustainability and environmental communication practice, OgilvyEarth, which he heads. Stephen has been instrumental in forging a close and successful partnership between Impact and the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC), partnering with them to encourage major energy users to implement government-funded projects aimed at achieving energy saving through employee behaviour change. The OgilvyEarth practice has expanded its services to offer solutions in communicating with a wide range of stakeholders on sustainability performance and climate change response. Their client base includes airlines, Government departments, manufacturing and industrial, banks, energy companies, major retail chains, facilities management and agencies.

In addition to his sustainability work, Stephen's work for major companies across Australia has included realigning and embedding vision and values across large complex workforces, and developing campaigns to engage sales teams and safety programs to reduce injuries in heavily-industrial environments. To date, his growing client portfolio has included Qantas, Woolworths, Visy, Thales, Kellogg, Railcorp, Department of Defence, Inghams, Origin Energy and Telstra.

His extensive knowledge of HR practices gained during his time at Accor Services provides further weight to his strong knowledge round change and his work now also includes managing teams involved in change management projects in a wide variety of industry segments including FMCG, manufacturing, technology, retail, airline, industrial and government sectors. More recently, he has also assisted in developing new methodologies to help clients get a good result when facing Enterprise Bargaining Agreements (EBA). He has assisted companies with industrial relations in the medical, aviation, telecommunications and manufacturing sectors.

In 2007 Stephen was a panelist at the Climate Change Summit and a guest speaker at Origin Energy's Climate Change presentation, where he presented key learnings and practices that lead to an effective sustainability program. He was on the expert panel at the Green Capital Event "Is it easy being Green. Marketing in the age of Spin".

Prior to joining Impact, Stephen held senior management positions in marketing and sales at News Ltd and Time Warner.

He enjoys golf, fishing, dining out and considers himself to be an expert cook.

Contact Stephen

  • Stephen Hale
  • Managing Director
  • Telephone: +61 2 8281 3222
  • Direct: +61 2 8281 3208
  • Mobile: +61 0438 655 046
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