{"id":63043,"date":"2022-10-10T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=63043"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:43:11","slug":"key-appointment-at-az-nga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2022\/10\/10\/key-appointment-at-az-nga\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Appointment at AZ NGA \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professional services company, AZ Next Generation Advisory<\/a> has appointed a business transformation specialist, Shannon Wood,<\/strong> to the newly-created role of Head of Business Improvement.<\/p>\n

A statement from the company says Wood is an experienced operations and people leader, having held the position of General Manager or Practice Manager at a number of boutique financial planning businesses including Fruition Wealth and Bright Wealth.<\/p>\n

At AZ NGA, her responsibilities include designing and implementing business improvement programs, M&A integration, and identifying and embedding best practice systems, processes and technology across the firm’s network of accounting and financial advisory firms.<\/p>\n

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Shannon Wood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She reports to AZ NGA Chief Operating Officer Graham McGeagh <\/strong>who says that as the firm grows they will “…steadily bolster our core team to continue supporting our business partners while remaining agile.\u201d<\/p>\n

A key priority over the next two to three years is to help the firm\u2019s businesses develop and execute a Future Firm strategy, so McGeagh sees it as a great time to get Wood on-board, given her experience in operations, business transformation and change management.<\/p>\n

Working with a diverse mix of businesses<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wood says the opportunity to work with a diverse mix of high-quality businesses attracted her to the firm.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my previous roles, I worked inside one business at a time but at AZ NGA, I have the opportunity to work with multiple businesses to effect change,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She adds that part of her role is to help business owners and leaders adopt and integrate technology solutions, develop and maintain a high-performance culture, and ensure staff are engaged and come on the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professional services company, AZ Next Generation Advisory has appointed a business transformation specialist, Shannon Wood, to the newly-created role of Head of Business Improvement. A statement from the company says Wood is an experienced operations and people leader, having held the position of General Manager or Practice Manager at a number of boutique financial planning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":63048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-appointments","category-dealer-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}