PTR Consulting

Dahle has had over 25 years experience in executive management and policy and strategy development in both the public and private sectors. Her focus has been education and training, social policy, strategic planning, management and leadership.

From 2004-10 she has been at the executive level in the public sector with responsibility for policy and strategy leadership. Most recently she was the Deputy Director-General, Policy and Strategy, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet and prior to that, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development ,Victoria. In these positions Dahle lead major policy reviews and reforms such as a state wide school system improvement agenda, public sector outcomes performance management, and workforce and leadership development.

Prior to that Dahle was a Director and consultant in the Allen Consulting Group, a leading economics and public policy consulting group where she specialised in education and training, business strategy and corporate social responsibility. She has also been an executive in the chemical and plastics industry, had experience in international business and the public sector in United States and Europe and teaching experience in Higher Education and secondary schools.

Dahle has a BA, M.Ed. Monash University and a Ph.D. University of Melbourne. She has served on a number of boards as a non-executive director and has published widely  She is a fellow of The Institute of Public Administration Australia (Victoria), was Vice President of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (NSW) and is a member of the Institute of Company Directors.

She has extensive experience and expertise in:

• Education and training policy development
• Education and training research
• Strategic planning for public and private sectors
• Business and Government relations
• Program evaluation and outcomes reviews