Bull & Bear Special Assignments

Bull & Bear Special Assignments (BBSA) provides Business Transformation Support, delivering strategic and operational change management to Commonwealth, state and private sector clients across Australia, trading since 2001 from its Canberra base with presence in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.

• Client list names more than 25 Commonwealth departments and agencies, including the Department of Defence, the Australian Taxation Office, the Department of Human Services and The Treasury, alongside universities and private firms.
• Appointed to Australian Government procurement panels including the AFP Capability Support Service Panel (SON3535332) and the Australian Public Service Commission Business Services and Learning and Development panels.
• Change programs address employee engagement, leadership development and knowledge transfer, and business process improvement, with experience restructuring organisations from state to national structures; career and executive coaching supports affected staff.
• Consultants drawn from the public and private sectors, including a former Senior Executive Service Band 2 officer and a Public Service Medal recipient.

Best for: Commonwealth and state agencies planning restructures or major change programs needing advisers fluent in public sector frameworks.

Bull & Bear Special Assignments delivers Operating Model and Organisational Design services across Australia, aligning organisations and their people with business direction for government and private clients since 2001.

• Scope spans job and work design, work level standards, organisational behaviour assessment and succession strategy mapping.
• Applies and evaluates the APS Integrated Leadership System and implements performance and learning development frameworks.
• Restructuring project experience includes moving organisations from state to national structures.

Best for: Australian Public Service and national organisations redesigning structures, roles or work level standards through a period of change.