Ari Magalhaes

Economist & Turnaround Specialist

Ari helps organisations work through economic challenges: pricing decisions, strategic positioning, growth planning and financial turnarounds.

She brings an economist's systems thinking to practical business problems, looking at how pricing affects demand, how cost structure supports (or blocks) growth, and what the numbers are actually telling you about where to focus. She's worked across 20+ industries in Australia, Europe, and South America, bringing frameworks and patterns that are relevant to different situations.

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Capabilities

Organisational and business planning

  • Strategic planning
  • Operational planning
  • Business model designs
  • Business coaching
  • Financial modelling
  • Feasibility studies

Strategy, risk and governance

  • Risk management strategy/implementation
  • Risk review/audit
  • Business improvement

People, culture and wellbeing

  • Leadership and executive coaching/training
  • Organisational restructure and merger support

Transformation and change

  • Business model and strategy review
  • Operating model review/strategy
  • Cost optimisation strategy
  • Revenue diversification strategy

Qualifications and recognition

Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors 2021

Fellow, Governance Institute of Australia (2021)

PRINCE2®Practitioner

Double Degree Masters in International Management, LSE-UK, Bocconi-Italy, and FGV-Brazil 

Bachelor of Economics, UNESP-Brazil

Women’s Health Tasmania, Non-Executive Director (NED)

Palliative Care Tasmania, NED

Arthritis & Osteoporosis Tasmania, NED

Economic Society of Australia (Tasmanian Branch), Committee Member

Red Nose Australia, Community Advisory Committee Member and Chair of “Healing Through Community” Steering Group

As always it was a pleasure to work with Ari. She delivers high quality work in the timeframes required

Executive Manager Clinical Care,
Aged Care Organisation

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