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Our risk and assurance solutions offer valuable insights and clear pathways that lead to truly meaningful actions and change.

We add value to risk, turning stagnant processes, deliverables and checklists into intelligent, smoothly-executed outcomes, thus inspiring great client and stakeholder confidence in your organisation.

Most importantly, we help you drive your business forward, providing you and your team with the tools to sustain and embed outcomes far beyond your engagement with us.

We work together to understand your current challenges and aspirations in order to develop unique solutions that create certainty and simplicity.

The value and benefits include:

  1. Significantly reducing costs related to downtime and recovery

  2. Rapidly increasing the speed of responses to disruptions

  3. Optimising data analytics and leveraging technologies

  4. Empowering your company’s ability to withstand stresses and disruptions.

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JVAT is an ISO 9001 Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance certified management consultancy. We know that quality is paramount to both our success and yours. As a result, we are committed to ensuring quality is at the heart of everything we do within our own organisation and processes, and that this is then reflected in our client engagements. 

Snapshot

Industry Management Consultancy Company size 50+ employees Headquarters Richmond, Victoria Locations 4 Company Type Privately held Specialities Our team consists of professional management consultants, engineers and assurance subject matter experts. We specialise in Risk & Assurance, including:

  1. Systems, Software & Safety Engineering

  2. Systems, Software & Safety Assurance

  3. Human Factors Engineering

  4. Security & Cybersecurity

  5. Management Consulting

  6. Enterprise Risk Management

  7. Governance, Change Management & Culture

  8. User Experience (UX) Design

  9. Resilience & Wellbeing

Our Values

Dedication to success

Innovation that matters

Trust. Responsibility Transparency

LeadershipTeam

Executive Team

Jimmy Stewart

Managing Director

Dr James Whitehill

Director - Australia

Paul Graham

Director - United States

Jimmy Stewart

Managing Director

Jimmy is a seasoned safety and risk management professional with global business management experience. He is known for his authentic leadership style which motivates the JVAT team to focus on delivering quality outcomes that drive innovation and inspire confidence.

Jimmy builds strong business relationships by relating business outcomes to successful risk and assurance activities, balancing stakeholders, delivery and governance. Jimmy’s specialty lies in presenting pragmatic, risk-based business solutions, with a focus on providing value-driven results and business outcomes.

As a disciplined strategic thinker, Jimmy’s expertise and vision have been the driving force behind JVAT’s success.

JVAT has the right team, attitude and agile delivery model. We face forward to meet the client’s vision and we always deliver the simple solution to the complex problem.

Dr James Whitehill

Director - Australia

James is an accomplished leader, management consultant and facilitator who specialises in governance structures, management systems, project management, technical engineering consulting, training and risk.

He has a unique ability to identify underlying business challenges through technical, project and enterprise expertise. James designs and creates efficiencies, implementing systematic frameworks to structures and processes. He’s known for his big picture thinking and ability to translate business strategy into detailed operational plans that add value for clients.

James is passionate about developing team members and thrives when leading change with clients and within JVAT through his strong leadership.

Creating stability and certainty through a constantly changing world, by actively using risk and assurance management systems will provide the basis to make more informed decisions allowing you to adapt to change quicker than your competitors, customers and industry sector.

Paul Graham

Director - United States

Paul is an experienced risk management, safety and security consultant with extensive capability in business process re-engineering, business continuity planning, management system development, and audit and assurance program development.

A former Australian Army Infantry Officer, Paul is the Director of JVAT Americas and lead facilitator for JVAT’s Resilience & Wellbeing Program, which has been delivered to over 500 participants.

Paul is a keen student of yoga, neurology, stoicism and mindfulness. He has developed three yoga schools, trained over 200 yoga instructors in the USA, Australia and Mexico and is a founding partner of Source Meditation.

Resilience begins with approaching uncertainty and changing demands as a means, not an obstacle, to thrive and exceed expectations. Equip your people with the insight and tools to tackle any problem with gusto and self-belief and watch what happens.

Associate Directors

Chris Drummond

Associate Director

Henry Gardner

Associate Director

Andy Wood

Associate Director

Claire Gray

People, Culture & Marketing Partner

Chris Drummond

Associate Director

Chris is a highly skilled, results-oriented leader with significant experience in System Safety, consultation, personnel management, contract negotiations and program management.

Chris is regarded as an exceptional communicator with dynamic organisational skills and excellent time management. He has a knack for independently multitasking and delivering demanding operations under strict schedules.

Chris specialises in focussing on the problem in its most basic form—removing the noise—to find the logical solution. His clients have been continually impressed with his trustworthiness and collaborative nature.

I am driven by the dynamic nature of my consulting work. I love to strip back problems to their core and find, develop and implement the future-proofed solution.

Henry Gardner

Associate Director

Henry is an accomplished leader with 14 years’ experience in the Aerospace, Defence and Space industries.

Driven to achieve outcome-based results, he has an impeccable reputation for building and leading high performing multi-functional teams using his in-depth knowledge of engineering and program management, strong interpersonal skills and the ability to motivate.

Henry has a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering and a wealth of experience in running large, complex programs for clients as well as defining and implementing business-wide strategies including transformation programs. While responsible for defining and implementing the strategy for a declining $60m business as Product Director, he was able to lead a successful turnaround, achieving a $74m business with a sustained 12% Compound Annual Growth Rate.

Leadership is not a position, it is an attitude. JVAT is aware that the race is not completed until the slowest team member crosses the line. At JVAT we put our people first with a collaborative environment, embracing continuous improvement and striving to exceed client expectations

Andy Wood

Associate Director

Andy is an astute, accomplished and pragmatic safety-focused engineer and manager with over 30 years’ experience of delivery in both Defence and Civil Aerospace sectors. He specialises in System Safety, risk management, quality assurance, airworthiness, project management and technical support roles.

Andy has an exemplary track record of leading and motivating teams, producing innovative and effective results within fixed, regulatory and financial constraints. He consistently delivers high quality, innovative solutions while managing safety-critical projects within Defence and Industry.

Diplomatic communication skills and a keen eye for detail ensure Andy brings a unique perspective to JVAT’s risk and assurance solutions.

Delivering pragmatic and quality solutions which not only meet but exceed the client’s needs, is what drives me.

Claire Gray

People, Culture & Marketing Partner

Claire is passionate about building high performing teams and people so that they can thrive. She is an accomplished Human Resources Consultant, Coach and Facilitator who has over 15 years’ experience in HR, Leadership and Organisational Development and Change Management.

Working with businesses on their People Strategy to develop their leadership capability, Claire embeds a purpose-led culture while building a high performing team. She has worked with small businesses and large corporates across the Financial Services, Professional Services, Transport, Government, FMCG, Education, NFP and Media sectors in Australia and the UK. Claire holds a Masters of Business (Human Resource Management), a Bachelor of Behavioural Science and is a certified Facet5 (personality assessment) practitioner. With over 500 coaching hours and an accreditation with the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership, Claire works with clients as an Executive/Leadership coach, career and small business coach.

Claire is known for her capability in identifying, developing and delivering strategic people solutions that have a positive impact on organisational performance, engagement, efficiencies and sustainable business results. At JVAT she is accountable for the internal and external culture and brand.

JVAT is a truly innovative and values based organisation. The leaders put their people first, build trust and have created a learning culture that is focused on high performance.