James Clark

CEO of Alchemy Mind International, a cutting edge management consultancy encompassing Executive & Leadership Development with Executive & Personal Coaching, James focuses on helping Fortune 500 businesses & individuals develop the necessary leadership skills to guide others as they embrace and integrate change.

With a holistic view of business, James brings deep experience in M&A with the integration of teams post-acquisition (Post Acquisition Integration) and developing tomorrow's leaders today.

A professional Executive Search Consultant adept at identifying talented professionals, I provide "C" Level Executive Search across Australia and Asia including Greater China across a number of markets including Private Equity, Engineering, Aerospace / Defence, Logistics, Industrial / Manufacturing/ FMCG, Technology (IT) and Telecommunications.

A lateral thinker who presents SOLUTIONS to clients and their business outcomes.

My work extends across the Asia Pacific region from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore to Hong Kong, China and India.

I am a market specialist and add value to my clients in an advisory capacity through depth of understanding of my clients business and the challenges they face.

Leading relationship driven, executive recruitment firm. As an Executive Search Consultant I worked across a number of technical and engineering related industry streams including IT, Telecommunications, Defence, Aerospace and Hi Tech Engineering (Automation & Control Systems etc)

With operations in 50 countries and 68,000 employees, Thales Group is a world leader in Mission-critical information systems for the Aerospace, Defence and Security markets.

At the time, Thales Australia were 50% share holders in the Australian firm, Australian Defence Industries (ADI). Thales Group made a subsequent bid for the remaining 50% of ADI, which was accepted, with ADI rebranding as Thales Australia.


* Developed strategic workflow and resource plans for 5 distinct business units

* Developed and implemented talent attraction strategies for the business in an ever tightening market

* Implemented RecruitASP Online Recruitment System liasing with vendor and ADI's IT group, developed and implemented training for ADI and suppliers

* Managed the implementation of RMI’s Launchpad Psychometric Assessment tool including the database repository at ADI, for use by ADI and Thales

* National Account Director for Defence and Defence Industries

* Clients within Defence Vendors:included: Ball Solutions Group, Raytheon Systems, Auspace Ltd, Australian Aerospace, Jacobs Sverdrup, Boeing Australia and BAE Systems

* Professional Development of 3 resourcers / junior consultants

* Recruitment of Senior technical leaders in following sectors pertinent to Defence:IT, Aeronautical Engineers, Systems Engineers, Satellite Communications Engineers & Technicians, working for clients both in Canberra and interstate, including remote Defence establishments

* Developed worklow strategies with clients for talent acquisition and attraction

* Dramatically increased revenue within Defence account by applying proven Account Management methodologies

* Developed strategic new accounts within Defence sector including DSTO, DIGO (Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation), DSD and DMO as well as Army, Navy and RAAF HQ

· Established Manpower as a preferred supplier to the following Defence vendors: Raytheon Systems, Australian Defence Industries, Boeing and BAE Systems building solid network into Defence sector

· National IT Account Manager for Nortel Networks, one of Manpower’s largest clients globally. Managed transition of contractors from Nortel to CSC after Nortel outsourced all internal IT Support functions globally, to CSC

· National Account Manager for NCR Australia - provided value added services to onsite recruitment team including overviews of various technologies, how and where they are used

· Professional Development of 4 Junior Consultants and 2 resourcers on all aspects of the recruitment process including headhunting