Bernadette (BJay) Lakey

Bernadette (BJay) Lakey is an award-winning Senior Learning, Organisational Development and Change Consultant with more than 20 years of experience helping organisations build high-performing leaders and future-ready workforces. She partners with leaders to design and deliver learning, leadership, organisational development and workforce capability solutions that align people strategy with business priorities and deliver measurable organisational outcomes.
Working across the mining, energy, banking, government, transport, professional services and not-for-profit sectors, BJay has partnered with complex, multi-site and regulated organisations through organisational transformational change. She is recognised for translating complex business challenges into practical, scalable solutions and programs that strengthen organisational capability, leadership effectiveness, team performance and sustainable learning cultures.
As a trusted advisor, BJay collaborates with clients to diagnose organisational needs, identify capability gaps and develop tailored organisational development and learning strategies. Her expertise includes organisational diagnostics, learning strategy, leadership development, workforce capability, change management, culture transformation, talent development, succession planning, coaching, performance improvement and organisational design.
An accomplished instructional designer, master facilitator and consulting leader, BJay has designed and delivered evidence-based learning solutions ranging from targeted workshops to enterprise-wide leadership academies, capability frameworks and blended learning programs. She has facilitated hundreds of leadership programs, people skills training programs, strategy workshops and organisational development initiatives, whilst also leading facilitation and consulting teams delivering large-scale transformation, learning and capability projects.
Throughout her career, BJay has held career roles and provided consulting services with organisations including Rio Tinto, Santos Energy, Roy Hill, Chevron Australia, P&N Bank and Western Australian Government agencies
BJay holds a Graduate Certificate in Business, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, and certifications in Coaching Leaders, Change Management, Human-Centred Organisational Development, Organisation Design, SAFe Agile, PMBOK Project Management, Human Synergistics, DiSC and Myers-Briggs. She is currently completing an MBA (Leadership and Management Behaviours) at Curtin University.