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Congratulations on stepping into the arena and choosing to dare greatly!

Jess

Note: Header image sourced from Ancient World Magazine - Spartacus Blood and Sand here.

Kristina Rivers

With two decades of facilitation experience spanning multiple industries, Kristina has created and facilitated development programs in Guatemala, the Caribbean, Canada, and Australia. She has worked within Government, Corporate, and NFP organisations, most recently including KPMG & Mercer.

Recently, Kristina has been developing and facilitating virtual leadership programs for both public and private sectors and understands how facilitation techniques must be adapted to elevate experience.

Since designing a technology-enabled global education program in 2012 Kristina has honed her ability to navigate virtual platforms and digital tools.

Either virtual or in-person, with Kristina you’ll get someone who is both warm and driven; she will provide participants the space to grow and will challenge them to maximise their growth and potential for the opportunities ahead.

Dr Jess Murphy – Founder

Dr Jess Murphy spent 20+ years in the corporate world, holding various senior leadership roles in the Financial Services industry. During that time, her pragmatic approach for accelerating firm-wide organisational transformation propelled her to the forefront of the inclusion movement.

In 2014, Jess established Pathway to Your Potential Pty Ltd – a boutique consultancy focused on talent, culture and inclusive leadership. Deeply experiential learning for senior leaders and diverse talent, shaped by rigorous academic research and measurement, to deliver individual behavioural change and support organisational cultural change.

Jess has deep expertise in connecting with individuals and facilitating impactful experiences with diverse groups. Her ability to create safe spaces to share different perspectives and constructively challenge participants ensures life-changing experiences and action-orientated outcomes.

Jess currently holds an Adjunct Professorship, has a Doctorate in Business Leadership from the Australian Graduate School of Leadership and is also a Life Fellow.

Visit www.drjessmurphy.com

Yvonne Butler

Yvonne has over 30 years’ experience as a senior executive, management consultant and independent director in the public and private sectors across Australia and Asia. Her primary expertise is in strategy execution, corporate governance, project leadership and strategic risk management.

She has worked for two of Australia’s largest commercial law firms (King Wood Mallesons and Allens); global consulting firm Ernst & Young in the areas of business consulting, corporate strategy & transformation, and new & emerging markets; ASX listed asset and facilities management organisation Transfield Services; and Palladium Group, the global consulting practice of Harvard Professors Kaplan & Norton. Yvonne is the immediate past Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute of Project Management and provides ongoing independent assurance support to the Department of Defence as an External Board Member.

A skilled and relatable facilitator, Yvonne excels at asking the hard questions and driving practical outcomes that add immediate business value.

Shelly Allen

Shelly is an experienced leadership coach who is passionate about working with people and organisations to create and sustain positive change. You can expect a straight-forward, engaging personal style, strong commitment and genuine relationship. She will work closely with you to understand specific goals and determine pragmatic approaches and solutions.

Shelly’s coaching, consulting and facilitation experience includes connecting both face to face and remotely, with clients located in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, UK and Asia.

She draws on her educational background and training in psychology and coaching as well as a deep understanding of organisational context gained from over 25 years of experience in consulting, organisation development and corporate HR roles. Shelly has worked collaboratively across diverse geographies and sectors with Boards, Executives, management teams, employees and HR professionals to facilitate and enable desired outcomes.

Sandie Pullen

Sandie is a human-centred design practitioner and strategist and has been working in corporate environments – mainly in social impact roles - since 2004. Throughout her career, she’s led, designed and created opportunities that seek to make people’s lives better and improve how we relate to and connect with each other.

Sandie facilitated collaborations, conversations and workshops on pressing issues like social isolation and loneliness and trained people in design thinking methodologies and practices.

Her industry experience crosses healthcare, logistics and financial services and she has presented at all kinds of things including design conferences and thought leadership forums.

Most recently Sandie has been guiding a team of 10 healthcare providers through a design challenge focused on improving services to support patients with their pain management and mental wellbeing. In this role she has introduced the team to human-centred design thinking and equipped them with practical skills and knowledge, coaching and supporting them along the way.

Here’s another snapshot of some work Sandie has delivered:

To help reduce social isolation and loneliness, Sandie was part of a cross-functional team who designed and piloted the Neighbourhood Welcome Service. Leveraging Australia Post’s reach and trust, the service connected over 800 people within six months to their local Post Offices and Welcome Spaces like community organisations, neighbourhood houses and cafes. The process saw her lead research and co-design sessions, and facilitate continuous improvements.

Sandie is always looking for new ways to learn and grow and bring integrity, kindness, positivity and excellence to everything she does.

Ross Calia

Ross Calia is a multi-disciplinary artist, having practiced for over 20 years. Working across photography, music composition, sound-design, visual art and directing, he has come to specialise in immersive art experiences; both for public exhibitions and commercial commissions.

Ross was recently awarded a Lume Artist Award for Immersive Art, culminating in a film-based digital artwork that ultilises over 100 multi-surface projectors and 32-channel surround-sound musical score. The work will debut in the opening season of Melbourne’s new large-scale digital art gallery, ‘The Lume’, and features a collaboration with Wiradjuri dancer, Ella Havelka and Kamilaroi Astrophysicist, Krystal de Napoli; exploring the deep connection between indigenous Australians and the stars over the millennia.

Ross is a specialist in portrait photography and his filmmaking projects are predominantly people-focussed; a product of a life-long dedication to elevating everyday people through art and telling authentic stories.

Joanne Brown

Joanne is a highly skilled Project Manager with over 12 years’ experience delivering end-to-end project management including business development, contract negotiations, administration and providing day-to-day communication and logistical support across project teams and key stakeholders.

A team player, Joanne has a passion for working collaboratively to understand client’s unique needs and building long term, strong working relationships. Action orientated with a strong attention to detail, she enjoys problem solving and immersing herself into the finer details to ensure projects are delivered accurately and client expectations are achieved. Joanne’s organisational skills sees her manage multiple projects concurrently, ranging in size and duration from short intensive projects to longer 6-9 month, multiple year projects.

Joanne has partnered with clients across a broad range of sectors including professional and financial services, health and all levels of the Government and public services. She has also worked extensively in learning and development including sales, design and implementation of tailored training solutions specifically in relation to remuneration and rewards, talent management and leadership.

Joanne holds a Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management). Outside of work, she is an avid amateur photographer and loves everything the great outdoors has to offer from camping to bush walking, snorkelling incredible marine environments and skiing.

Anna Webb

Anna’s value proposition is to work with people to improve the resilience, wellbeing, and performance of leaders and their people.

Anna’s focus is to help people build a positive mindset that drives individual engagement and performance, equipping people and organisations with the principles to succeed and thrive.

Taking the latest research from the fields of Positive Psychology, Emotional Intelligence and Neuroscience, Anna supports individuals and organisations by introducing effective workplace interventions to enable people to flourish.

When people have purpose, feel engaged and empowered, they produce their best work. Anna believes the only sustainable business advantage is through people and leadership.

With 25 years’ experience in learning and development, Anna’s strength is working with people through individual coaching and facilitating leadership programs and applying her extensive knowledge of the current research and practice of positive psychology and emotional intelligence. This involves enabling people to increase self-awareness, effect desired change and by working in partnership enable individuals, teams and organisations to flourish.

Nic Rivers

Nicolas Rivers believes that the pursuit of shared meaning across diverse thought will be one of the most defining factors of our future.

Working at the intersection of long-term thinking and leadership, his focus is on creating frameworks and experiences for people to understand and address complex topics, while simultaneously building capability to communicate and lead effectively. Nicolas frequently designs and facilitates city-shaping conversations across government, industry and academia, including the Future Transport 2056 Strategy led by Transport for NSW.

In 2012 he set out to bicycle around the earth with his wife, from which he is on a brief sabbatical while raising two daughters. If Nicolas was a brand, Patagonia would be it. He won’t eat an animal he hasn’t personally killed and has been striving for a minimalist lifestyle for more than 8 years.

Ngoc Marcelino

Ngoc brings with her over 10 years of project management experience working in the Professional Services industry at firms including Forethought Research, SMS Management and Technology and Willis Towers Watson.

Ngoc has a passion for process and governance, and whilst adaptable, it drives her to keep projects on track and delivered to a high standard. She brings demonstrated experience leading medium to large scale projects focusing on learning and development, marketing research and employee engagement. Ngoc has an easy going nature which allows her to build great relationships with clients and stakeholders.

She has partnered with clients across a wide range of industries including Financial and Insurance Services, Industrial (Mining & Steel) and Government.

Ngoc holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Psychology from Monash University and a Foundation certificate in Prince2.

Deepak Shetty

Deepak’s purpose is to be of service and help leaders and organizations unlock their potential.

Deepak has had the privilege over the last 20 years of working in six countries with client partners like Bosch, Cap Gemini, DXC, Ford, Infosys, Mercedes Benz, Oracle. He is known as a facilitator who creates spaces that are reflective, enables honest conversations, challenges thinking and helps create impact for leaders, their teams and the organization.

Deepak holds a MBA degree and is certified to use instruments like: The Leadership Circle, Clarity 4D and the Leadership Dialogue. Learning languages has been a passion of his and he is proficient in five.

Based between the dynamic cities of Melbourne and Bangalore, Deepak designs and facilitate workshops in the areas of Inclusive Leadership, Cross Cultural Leadership, Courageous Conversations, Inclusion and Diversity, Learning Agility, Executive Coaching with TLC.

Dr Jess Murphy - Founder

Jess currently holds an Adjunct Professorship, has a Doctorate in Business Leadership from the Australian Graduate School of Leadership and is also a Life Fellow.

Visit www.jessmurphy.com