Walter Bellin

Chairman
Bellin Excel Seminars

Walter Bellin pioneered the development and teaching of a wide range of methods designed to maximise the professional and personal potential of individuals, teams and organisations. Walter is an international consultant who has consulted to the top senior management teams of a wide range of Australian public and private sector organisations in the areas of corporate development, leading organisational change (specialising in organisational cultural change), leadership development, teambuilding, communication skills and strategic business planning. In addition to his work in Australia and the USA, Walter has consulted in seven different countries throughout Asia and Europe.

Walter was born and educated in the United States. He received a BA in Philosophy with high honours from the University of Minnesota and went on to graduate studies in psychology and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also taught undergraduate philosophy. He was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa National Academic Honorary Society.

Walter later left the university to pursue studies in the newly emerging human potential field, an area of study not then available in formal academic institutions. From the mid to late 1970's, he developed and taught a wide range of seminars - including stress management, personal development, conflict resolution, effective communication, leadership, teambuilding, creativity and negotiating skills - throughout Britain, Europe and the USA. During the mid to late 1970's, he also lectured at the Stanford Research Institute and was a guest lecturer at Harvard and Stanford Universities, USA and Oxford and Cambridge Universities, UK.

In 1979 he migrated to Australia, where he launched the Crossroads personal development workshops, which rapidly became the most successful and widely attended of the human potential programs in Australia, with over 35,000 participants between 1979 and 1988. Beginning in 1986, and continuing through to the present, Walter has been consulting with and training managers and executives in Australian private and public sector organisations.

In the APS, Walter has worked extensively as a change management consultant, specialising in organisational cultural change and leadership development for SE5 officers and EL1s and 2s. He was awarded the contract to design and deliver a major part of the first SES band two leadership programme, called SELP, from 1990 through 1992. He also collaborated with Dr John Baker in designing and delivering an SE5 leadership programme for band one and two SE5 officers over a 9 year period between 1993 and 2002. In addition, he was one of the two consultants who designed and delivered CPM's 'From Management to Leadership' program, which is the most successful leadership programme for EL1s and 2s in APS history, with over 2000 participants, between 1995 and the present.

Walter was also the lead consultant in designing and delivering a leadership development and culture building programme for the joint logistics forces for the Department of Defence, and similar programmes for a number of other federal agencies. His APS clients have included most Commonwealth departments and agencies, including: Attorney General's; Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; Health and Aging; APS Commission; Medicare; DEFAT; CSIRO; Human Services; Centrelink; Department of Defence and the Productivity Commission.