Bruce McKay is an experienced executive having enjoyed a successful career in several industries for nearly 30 years. Since 1997 he has pursued a portfolio of interests including consulting, company directorships and executive coaching/mentoring.
At the culmination of his international career with Esso and Exxon affiliates, he held the positions of General Manager Production for Esso Australia, responsible for the largest oil and gas production operations in the country, and Chief Executive Officer of Delhi Petroleum. Subsequently he was Director of Personnel at Telstra, and then was appointed Chief Executive and Head of School of the Australian Graduate School of Engineering Innovation in 1994. Bruce continues to be active as a non-executive director of public companies and is currently Non-executive Chairman of AWE Limited and KUTh Energy. From 1996 to 2002 he was on the Board of Normandy Mining, then Australia’s largest gold mining company. He is also the Non-executive Chairman of Epic Energy Holdings and DigitalCore Pty Ltd, a Trustee of the John Flynn Foundation for Frontier Services of the Uniting Church of Australia, and chairman of the Board of Management for the Australian School of Petroleum at Adelaide University.
Bruce completed his B.Sc with Honours in Geology at Sydney University. He has undertaken many professional and management programs through his career and was an Adjunct Lecturer at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Technology Strategy. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and of The Institution of Engineers Australia and an Honorary Life Member of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association where he was Chairman between 1991- 92. He was invited to be a member of the Advisory Forum on Discrimination for the Department of Defence from 1994 to 1996 and the Industry Specialist on a feasibility study for an AusAID China Management Training Project in 1995.
As an Executive Coach and Mentor with the Stephenson Mansell Group since 2000, he has worked extensively with participants in financial services, technology, construction, infrastructure, legal and government sectors. He has a passion for seeing individuals achieve their potential and has been effective in developing the careers of younger high potential managers as well as mentoring CEO’s in ASX100 companies and Australian subsidiaries of international corporations and owner executives in private companies. He has facilitated successful leadership programs with executive teams in divisions of public companies and government departments.
Over his ten years of coaching supported through ongoing professional development and supervision, he has developed a suite of coaching and mentoring skills enhanced by his own corporate experience and sound understanding of business and behavioural challenges faced by individuals and organisations. He is experienced with a range of leadership models and survey
instruments and is accredited in the application of LSI.
One participant wrote:
“I have had a rewarding engagement with Bruce McKay from SMG over the last 3 years. He has challenged me to objectively appraise where I'm heading from both a professional and a personal perspective and prompted me to consider alternative approaches to achieve the goals I set myself. Having worked in a range of senior positions Bruce was able to offer practical insights and clearly explain how they could be applied based on his experience. Having access to a senior professional outside the day to day business provided a great developmental dimension while the flexibility to customise the program allowed me to integrate it with company activities and internal training. I would not hesitate to recommend SMG Executive Coaching for any senior executive”.
