Councils National Board
Lean Construction Australia and New Zealand is structured around a National Board, supporting 6 regional councils in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria & Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and New Zealand.
All LCANZ Council members are bound by the Lean Construction ANZ Constitution, and LCANZ State and Country Committees Roles and Responsibilities
Ken Panitz
Board Chairperson, Public Officer
Ken is a Mechanical Engineer, and has been working in Construction for the past 19 years. His current position is Principal Methods, Lean and Innovation at EIC Activities, the CIMIC groups Engineering and Innovation company. Ken has been involved in supporting the lean community in Australia for the past 5 years.
Dr Vicente González
LCANZ Ltd Director, Regional Committee Chairperson
Vicente is an academic at The University of Auckland and a passionate advocate for Lean Construction and Digital Technologies. He has been a member of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) since 2004 and a prolific author in Lean Construction. He has also played different roles in the IGLC annual series conferences such as editor and scientific chair.
Christina Levinson
LCANZ Ltd Director, Regional Committee Chairperson
Christina is a Managing Partner of the Lean Construction Advisory, a Brisbane based consultancy which bring efficiency, productivity and LEAN methodology to the construction industry.
Christina has over twelve years’ experience as a consultant in the field of Organisational Development as a successful coach, facilitator, trainer, and change agent.
Abra DeKlerk
LCANZ Ltd Director, Regional Committee Chairperson
Abra is the Executive Director of Sales for Jacobs Engineering. With more than 20 years experience in engineering previously with Aurecon and AECOM.
Michael Ward
LCANZ LTD DIRECTOR, REGIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON
Michael is a consultant who has specialised in assisting project teams achieve high performance outcomes. Building on more than thirty years of engineering and construction experience he has developed and applied an approach based on an agile business optimisation, built on the right organisation structure, trusting relationships and efficient work flow methods. Prior to joining Evans & Peck Michael was a relationship contract specialist with John Holland where he provided strategic advice to the organisation and its alliance teams in relation to the securing and delivering major infrastructure projects
Stephanie Pretorius
LCANZ Ltd Director, NZ REGIONAL COUNCIL LCANZ
Stephanie is a consultant focussed on helping the construction industry to develop a culture of continuous improvement (CI). Leveraging her background in management consulting with Deloitte, and lean industry experience across manufacturing and construction, she supports organisations to grow their CI capability in areas including leadership, accountability, visible performance, and ‘better practice’ processes/systems. Working in operational consultancy for several years she has experience creating sustainable change and led a large multi-site transformation programme. Stephanie is a consultant with Intent Group and is a trained Toyota Kata practitioner. She hopes to support LCANZ to achieve its goal of advancing the application of lean.
Shang Gao
LCANZ LTD DIRECTOR
Dr Gao Shang is an academic at the University of Melbourne where he teaches subject of Lean construction. He is also the author of the book titled Lean Construction Management – the Toyota Way, which is the first book ever published to address the Toyota Way practices in the construction industry to achieve lean construction management. Dr Gao had experience in developing special Diploma in Lean construction for senior building professionals in Singapore. He has also served as consultant to large construction firms in China and Singapore.
