Lyn Fletcher
For over 20 years, Lyn has been a manager in the not-for profit sector, managing teams and projects in the relationships services sector. As Director of Operations for Relationships Australia NSW, Lyn provides leadership around HR issues for Relationships Australia NSW and uses her professional skills as a trainer, coach and consultant in assisting other organisations to manage their Lyn Fletcher director of operations, people and processes to optimise effectiveness and performance. Relationships Australia
Sue Jackson
Sue Jackson executive chairman, Solterbeck
Siobhan Flores-Walsh
Siobhan Flores-Walsh director of people partner, Australian Business Lawyers
Siobhan has worked in employment law and industrial relations for 18 years. Her experience includes first tier law firms as well as in-house legal and human resources roles in the oil industry and a large media organisation. Siobhan is experienced in all aspects of workplace relations including advising on appropriate forms of industrial regulations, outsourcing, harassment and discrimination, occupational health and safety compliance and general employment issues such as post-employment restraints, executive contracts, policy, incentive schemes and superannuation.
Meiron Lees
Meiron Lees executive director, InnerCents
Raechel Gavin
Raechel Gavin head of HR Australia, Bain & Co.
Raechel Gavin currently works as the Head of HR for Bain and Company Australia. Bain is a global consulting firm with 41 offices in 27 countries. Raechel’s career spans roles working with Federal Government, the airline industry, consulting in both Australia and the Middle East and more recently professional services. In her most recent roles, Raechel has had key responsibilities for developing strategies around best practice mobility and virtual teams.
Shari Harley international speaker, trainer and business advisor, Harley Group, Colorado, USA
Penny Lovett HR director, Bupa Australia
Lynda Harris general manager – people, Aussie Group
Dulise Maxwell executive director of People and Culture for Queensland Health
michael harvey CEO, CareerOne
Pietra Moffat APAC head of HR, Lend Lease
Bob Hogarth general manager, human resources, Heritage Building Society
Peitra Moffat is a former employment lawyer, having worked in top-tier law firms before moving in house to Lend Lease. She has held various legal, human resources and employee relations positions across the global Lend Lease group. Peitra currently heads up human resources for the property development, property management and investment management businesses in Lend Lease across Asia-Pacific.
Michele Mok
Michele Mok senior HR business partner, Yahoo!7
Bob Hogarth
Bob is a Senior Executive for Heritage – Australia’s largest building society. Bob has over 20 years experience in senior HR roles in both the finance and banking sector and tertiary education. Bob describes himself as not the typical HR practitioner in that like many of his counterparts he is passionate about people and their development but in addition to this he is able to sometimes understand what the accountants are talking about! Bob and his team are responsible for all people-related strategies and activities and together they have helped the organisation towards realising its “People first” ethos.
Dulise’s capability to coach and consult to organisations and individuals to increase their performance levels has grown from more than 20 years of educating at secondary and tertiary levels, performing at Senior Management levels in government commercial enterprises and facilitating, designing solutions and coaching in the areas of strategic planning, organisational development, Asian-Australian Business Communication and Strategic Human Resource Development. In 2007 Dulise’s work was recognised by receiving two Australian Human Resource Institute awards.
Pietra Moffat
Michael Harvey
As part of the recent joint venture between News Limited and Monster Worldwide, Mr Harvey will be overseeing the transition of the CareerOne.com.au website to Monster’s world class technology platform further intensifying the company’s challenge to the market leader. Mr Harvey began his career at Pannell Kerr Forster, Chartered Accountants. After a stint with Arthur Andersen, he joined News Limited in 1995 and was part of the team who launched Foxtel. In 1996, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Fox Studios Australia, and in 2001, he was promoted to Chief Executive and took responsibility for expanding the film studio.
Since joining Bupa in 2002 Penny has successfully lead numerous change management and people programs, including the landmark merger of Bupa Australia and MBF. Penny’s core role is to support the achievement of Bupa’s strategic and operational goals through the development of people and capability. During her time in this role, Bupa has been awarded several independent industry accolades in recognition of the leadership role it plays as an employer, including awards for Employer of Choice and Best Talent Management Strategy (AHRI) and Best HR Strategic Plan (HR Leadership Awards).
Dulise Maxwell
Lynda Harris
Lynda has held senior Human Resource roles within customer-focused companies for the last 25 years. While this experience has taken her from large multi-national organisations to smaller privately-owned businesses, a common thread has been her involvement in market leading businesses with a strong brand. Lynda has been General Manager People with Aussie for nearly 12 years and as such, she is a member of the Executive Management team.
Meiron Lees has spent most of his professional career dedicated to strengthening businesses through his unique coaching and training programs. In 2002, Meiron emigrated from South Africa to Australia and founded InnerCents, an organisation that supports businesses to achieve profitable results and individuals to realise their highest professional aspirations. Meiron has developed training, coaching and mentoring programs in the areas of leadership, management, strategy, performance and stress management. In 2008, Meiron published his first book – ‘D-Stress, Building Resilience in Challenging Times’.
Penny Lovett
Shari Harley
Shari Harley runs Candor Matters, an international training and consulting firm helping people manage their reputations and build relationships that last. Shari delivers talent and career management programs for small and large organisations all over the world. Shari has a Master’s Degree in Communication and serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver. She is the author of the book ‘Where Did My Customers Go?’, ‘Managing Reputations’ and ‘Building Relationships That Last A Lifetime’.
With a background in consumer marketing and consulting, in 2000 Sue acquired Solterbeck, then a marketing consultancy with seven staff, and shifted the business focus to the emerging performance improvement market.Today, Solterbeck has 40 staff and annual sales reach over AUD$20m. Solterbeck’s clients include 30 bluechip organisations in such industries as automotive, banking, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, FMCG, and insurance. More than 30,000 people participate in Solterbeck’s programs in 10 countries worldwide. Sue is recognised as an industry expert and is a respected commentator on performance improvement trends and issues.
Michele Mok is the Senior HR Business Partner at Yahoo!7. Michele is responsible for driving strategies around employee engagement, culture, change management and organisation effectiveness. She has designed and implemented programs to attract, develop and engage talent and provides strategic partnerships to media sales, search marketing, finance and performance. Michele’s extensive experience in the online media industry included strategic positions at ninemsn and generalist HR positions in Local Government.
Jim Nolan
Jim Nolan vice president, human resources, General Electric
Jim joined GE in March 1999 initially working in the GE Money business as HR Leader for GE Money’s Operations centres in the UK and Ireland. Whilst with GE in the UK, Jim worked as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and also led the HR integration for one of GE Money’s major European acquisitions. Moving to Australia in September 2004. Jim was the HR Leader for three of GE Money’s major business units; Cards Solutions; Retail Finance and the newly-formed Money Direct business.
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