Errol la Grange Errol is a natural facilitator and mediator, easily

Errol la Grange
Errol is a natural facilitator and mediator , easily connecting and communicating with people from all
walks of life and is accust omed to working with complexity and challenge in business. He draws on a
wide range of exper ience and expertise to understand different perspe ctive s and to assist people t o get
to the heart of their matters.
Errol’s keen commercial and legal mind is tempered with an entrepreneur’s learning of the true value
and detriment of both failure and success and that between black and white there are many shades of
possibility. Ultimately wor k, business and life are all about the well being and potential of people .
Backgr ound
Errol has a professional background in litigation , commercia l la w, corporate tax and training. He has
worked as a barrister and manager in two of the Big Four accounting firms over seas and senior solicit or
in two large law fir ms. This included Special Counsel at Allens Arthur Robinson in Me lbourne before
starting his own la w fir m in 2002, specializing in GST advice , training and dispute resolution.
Through assisting organisations in both the private and public sector to imple ment and bed down Good
and Services Tax systems in three countries, Err ol honed his skills in facilitating large sca le and comple x
change impa cting on all a spe cts of business.
Providing pr ofessional education has pla yed an integral role in Err ol’s work and he has the ability to
extract and convey the simplicity at the heart of the matter to all leve ls of participants.
As principa l of his fir m, Australia and New Zealand Banking Grou p engaged Errol over a four-year
period to advise on and facilitate close to 400 ma jor transactions of the bank with its internal and
external stakeholders. Errol played a ke y role in helping to negotiate a Forward Compliance
Arrangement with the Australian Tax Office , the first of its type in Australia.
This was a pilot pr oje ct that redefined the possibility of relations between large business and the ATO.
The Arrangement is predicated on mutual benefit through a relationship based on collab oration ,
disclosure, trust and organisational va lues. The CEO of the bank and the Commissioner of Taxation
personally signed the Arrangement after two years of intensive collaboration and negotiation . With a
long hist ory dogged by costly litigation and mistrust, the issues were highly sensitive , comple x and
challenging. Solutions were innovative and groundbreaking with extraordinarily succe ssfu l outcomes.
Out of interest in education, innovation and business, Errol co-founded CPDlive .com Pty Ltd in 2007.
CPDlive pioneered the facilitation of continuing professional development live over the Internet in
Australia. It facilitates and manages over 400 live, interactive and engaging expert presentations each
year for the likes of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Company Director s, Federal
Government Treasury, De partment of Treasury Vict orian Govern ment, Financia l Planners Association
and Institute of Public Accountants. In the past two years appr oximately 40,000 pr ofessionals have
trained through CPDlive. Err ol is an active direct or with CPDlive.
Qualifications
Practitioners Certificate in Mediation and Facilitation
Higher Diploma in Tax Law
Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Art
Pr ofessional
Barrister and Solicitor of Supre me Court of Victoria
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Ne w Zealand
Advocate of the Supre me Court of South Africa