If your organisation knows where it needs to go but can't get there from here, let's chat. I specialise in transformation, AI adoption, and making change stick.
Coaching & consultancy
Practical support for small business owners, founders, and anyone who knows things could be better but doesn't know where to start.
Expertise
I thrive in the messy bit, where ambiguity, competing objectives, and diverse stakeholders are the norm. Systems thinking, commercial discipline, and genuine human connection.
The gap between AI exploration and production is not technical. It is operational, cultural, and commercial. I help organisations move AI from pilot to production by addressing the real barriers: trust, culture, capability, and workflow integration.
Coaching & consultancy →Systems and portfolio change. Implementation specialist. 15+ years embedding new technologies into human workflows, from research and insights to regulatory and service design.
Deep expertise in co-design, behavioural science, and user-centred research. Bringing diverse stakeholders together to solve problems that matter, including people with lived experience, frontline staff, and executives.
42 engagements across 15+ Commonwealth agencies. I understand both sides of the desk. I know how government buys, decides, and operates.
10 years of consulting with explicit revenue targets. P&L experience, pipeline discipline, pricing protection, and board governance. Revenue enablement through people, not just process.
Committed to gender equity, ending greyhound racing, and being a good human. Using my voice, skills, and platform to advocate for the changes that matter beyond the workplace.
Board & Community
Strategic governance for international professional association active in 49 countries with a $3.5M annual budget. Held roles of Secretary, General Director, and Vice President across six years. Delivered 32% membership increase and 27% revenue increase (FY23-24). Led development of global AI policy and governance framework.
Appointed to reignite the Canberra change community. Connecting practitioners, government leaders, and technology partners around the adoption challenges government clients are facing right now.
Community initiative supporting girls' leadership development. Building the next generation of leaders through mentoring, connection, and practical opportunity.
Led co-design for The Warrior Project, engaging people with lived experience to scale a running program for incarcerated First Nations people.
Selected Work
A sample of the work I've led across government, Defence, international organisations, and the not-for-profit sector.
Led co-design to scale a running program for incarcerated First Nations people, shifting from individual contracts to facility partnerships. IMF adopted the approach for all future programs.
Pro bonoDesigned and implemented a risk-based regulatory framework for advertising compliance. 14-week design sprint, 12 weeks of implementation support. Shifted from reactive compliance to proactive risk management.
Senior leader in multi-year reform integrating 70+ regulatory functions into a digital assessment platform. 70+ interviews and workshops, benchmarked against 10 regulators.
35% faster assessmentsDesigned and trialled 10 behavioural nudges to advance gender equity in aviation. 60+ stakeholder interviews, 230+ trial participants across four states.
+43% positive behaviour changeLed trauma-informed community engagement for $280M Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants. 54 workshops across 36 LGAs, reaching close to 1,500 people in bushfire-affected communities.
Co-designed global culture change toolkit for the United Nations Population Fund. Five learning modules, interactive web portal, and measurement framework for worldwide operations.
Ideas & Initiatives
A proprietary framework for AI implementation with four pillars: Deficit, Design, Deliberate, and Data. Built on the thesis that AI transformations fail when organisations skip prerequisites, not because of technical issues.
Leading the Global Voices series at the Change Management Institute, connecting international experts on AI implementation, human-centred adoption, and the future of change practice.
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I'm a strategic designer and executive leader with 15+ years across government transformation, consulting, and organisational change. I've worked on both sides of the desk, with dual experience in the Australian Public Service and the consulting sector, so I understand how government buys, decides, and operates.
“My brain works fast. I get across a problem, understand the complexity and pull together different strands to rapidly form a solution.”
I specialise in turning ambiguity into action. Whether that involves AI adoption, regulatory reform, workforce uplift, or cultural change, I help organisations navigate transformation and make it stick. Not theorising about it. Working through the friction points personally before asking anyone else to.
I live in Canberra with my two young kids. I run a small dog training business (a passion project that became a proper side hustle). I'm a strong advocate for neuroaffirming approaches, informed by my experience as a parent.
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