Partners in Performance appoints Adrian James and Patrycja Stasina


Adrian James and Patrycja Stasina have commenced the new year as managing directors at Partners in Performance, an international management consultancy firm part of Accenture.
Both new managing directors have been with Partners in Performance for more than five years from their respective bases in Australia and New Zealand, having joined the firm with earlier experience at KPMG and L.E.K. Consulting.
The pair were previously ‘partners’ at Partners in Performance before the consultancy’s sale to Accenture last year, which in being publicly-listed triggered changes to its senior leadership titles – ‘managing director’ now roughly equates to ‘senior partner’.
Adrian James
James joined Partners in Performance as an engagement manager in Melbourne in 2017 after more than a decade at KPMG, including a brief stint in Los Angeles, where he rose to associate director level in the Big Four’s strategy consulting division. Altogether, he has clocked up 15-plus years worth of management consulting, M&A, and commercial experience in the FMCG, retail and private equity space.
According to his bio, the consumer practice leader has worked with most of Australia’s large-sized national and multinational brands and over a dozen grocery retailers abroad on performance improvement, while assisting on more than 40 M&A deals for investors, bringing together industry expertise with commercial and analytical acumen to scale and implement solutions.
Patrycja Stasina
An all-rounder with over two decades worth of professional experience in operational and strategy design, customer experience, transformations, and delivery in both an advisory setting and across various industries, Stasina likewise steps up to managing director level to start off the new year, having joined Partners in Performance from Spark in 2018.
Prior to the telecom, she served for close to a decade in various senior positions at Bank of New Zealand, insurer IAG, and Westpac between Auckland and Sydney, before which she spent four years at L.E.K. Consulting after starting out at market research consultancy Frost & Sullivan in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Accenture
Established in 1996 by former McKinsey consultant Skipp Williamson, Partners in Performance, which still bears its own name, grew to be one of Australia’s leading independent management firms prior to its acquisition by Accenture, with its focus on organisational improvements proving to be an irresistible proposition for the tech consulting giant in a period of shifting client demand.
Many of the former ‘directors’ at Partners in Performance, including Ben Thompson and Jane Algie, who were promoted from partner to the top level earlier last year, and recent senior recruits such as Vinoy Kumar, have since updated the job titles on their LinkedIn profiles to ‘managing director’.
Accenture, meanwhile, has scaled back its massive managing director promotional rounds over the past two years.
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