About

The name Anadrom is derived from Anadromous, which describes fishes migrating up rivers from the sea. As an advisory business, owned by Tektology® Pty Ltd, Anadrom is all about systems and in particular:

Thinking as part of a system - upstream and downstream - for greater impact and more sustainable solutions.
Focussing on transitions - between people, services, organisations and systems - as the points of greatest risk or opportunity.

Tektology® relates to understanding the relationships - social, biological and physical – of systems and their organising principle(s). It believes things can only be understood through their organisational character; that they will adapt to their environment and something that is stable and organised will be greater than the sum of its parts.

Both these concepts provide valuable lenses to our work, but fundamentally it is always about people – connections, conversations, relationships and networks.

In addition, for any of the work we undertake, we seek:

Context;
Evidence;
Experience including lived and living experience;
Stories / narrative.

Leadership

Anadrom is led by Paul Dolan, who has over 24 years in the Health, Mental Heath and Human Services sectors.

I started my career at a technology organisation who were delivering a major IT program to the NHS back in the early 2000s. I have been fascinated by and worked in the health and mental health sector ever since. My career in the sector has been in advisory / consulting, in government and in the not-for-profit sector both in Australia and internationally.

I moved away from technology-enabled change and joined a major professional services business. I was lucky to work on major reform programs in the UK such as World Class Commissioning, Transforming Community Services and Foundation Trust establishment, which provided an opportunity to expand in to policy, integration, improvement, data and analytics.

I moved to Australia in 2010, where I started to focus more on macro health system work – governance, commissioning, funding, performance – alongside an ongoing interest in organisational improvement.

I joined a Board of a not-for-profit in the Mental Health space in the mid-2010s, chairing the Finance & Risk Committee for four years. At that time, I also moved to the Department of Health in Victoria, where I had responsibility for Health System Intelligence and Analytics and then Child and Families reform. I then took up an executive role in the not-for-profit sector with Phoenix Australia, an internationally recognised leader in posttraumatic mental health. From there I rejoined a major professional services business as a lead partner for the Health account in Victoria.

I established Tektology® in 2018 and Anadrom a few years later, originally as a partnership, and now wholly owned by Tektology Pty Ltd.

Collaboration

Anadrom works with a range of associates nationally and internationally depending on the specific skills required and / or size of the work. Anadrom also works in a national network of likeminded advisory and broader businesses, which include:

If we are unable to help, we can usually find someone with the right experience who can.

For further information or to find out how we can help please get in touch: