Lantian Consulting
Mellisa Gillies provides executive leadership, interim executive, and consulting services as Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director, Chief Marketing Officer, and Director as well as governance and Secretariat services for Boards.
Extensive Australian market experience gained in national and multi-national corporations, small-to-medium businesses (including diverse geographies of regional NSW, regional Victoria, and regional Queensland), China market expertise, and international markets. Recognised with Asia capability, a global perspective, and international experience.
Experienced across Asia Pacific, including the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Plus emerging markets in South Africa and North Africa. Key markets include the Middle East, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Americas.
Interim executive management, our approach
We see | A blue sky of possibilities
Lantian is the translation of Chinese words for “blue” and “sky”. We are inspired by blue-sky, big picture, strategic thinking. Through a customer-centric focus to strategy design, we see a blue sky of possibilities for growth, and financial sustainability.
Expertise has been developed through leading start-ups, emerging, new, and mature markets, brands, products, and services, and member Associations. Industry sector experience includes higher education, vocational education, media, entertainment, travel, tourism, hospitality, visitor services, consumer products, licensing, manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, eCommerce, and export.
Interim executive management, our story
Lantian | Business, marketing, communications, digital, and brand strategy focused on customers at the centre of your world
Lantian provides strategic planning and tactics utilising expertise gained in Australia and internationally on new and market-leading brands, products, services, and member Associations.
We have led business, divisions, member Associations, start-ups, and agencies. Developed new business, new revenue streams, an emerging market, and entered new markets internationally. Provided service to diverse stakeholder groups and been customer-centric, to precision-target diverse customer segments. We have defined strategies, delivered objectives, and aligned resources, operations, systems, procedures, and marketing with strategy to achieve business growth.
Governance
Mellisa Gillies provides governance as a non-executive director for Boards. In addition, compliance, risk management, and Secretariat support to Boards through consulting and interim executive assignments. Governance trained through the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Governance Institute of Australia.
How we got here...
The Lantian team has extensive knowledge of Asian markets through living and working in APAC and international business from Australia and Asia. Expertise includes Australia, Greater China (China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan), Cambodia, the Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. Expertise has been gained through work in Europe, Canada, the Americas, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Africa.
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