About Sam
Capacia’s led by Sam Hannah-Rankin,
an experienced leader, facilitator and entrepreneur,
focused on new capabilities, business models
and better ways of working
in the government and for purpose sector.
Sam’s most recent experience has been in the Victorian Public Service (Department of Premier & Cabinet, Victorian Public Sector Commission), where Sam worked in public sector innovation and reform, building workforce capacity and capability. Achievements include:
Introducing the Public Sector Innovation Fund;
Establishing the government’s first Behavioural Insights Unit;
Delivering a world-first capability program with Nesta, the UK innovation fund
Founding the 20,000 member VPS Innovation Network, including digital and in-person collaborative event delivery
Relaunching the Barring Djinang First Peoples Workforce Development strategy
Piloting whole-of-government co-working spaces and emergency surge capacity functions.
Sam also led a range of cross-departmental initiatives across First Peoples workforce, diversity, workplace safety, flexible work and COVID return to office.
Before this, Sam worked in corporate development and new business establishment for large corporates (Australia Post, Bendigo Bank and Fairfax Digital), interspersed with management consulting with McKinsey & Company and a variety of smaller firms.
At Australia Post, Sam established a standalone identity services business and introduced a new corporate development function; she set up a joint venture founded on a world-first equity release product at Bendigo Bank, and launched the first employment websites for Fairfax Digital.
Sam also introduced new corporate development and strategy functions for Australia Post and Bendigo Bank, and led the post-GFC Basel II credit and operational risk compliance implementation for Bendigo Bank.
Sam’s an Australian Institute of Company Directors graduate, and has an Executive Masters of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management (now University of New South Wales) and a Master of Arts in Ancient Greek Literature from the University of Melbourne. Her more recent formal learning included the Introduction to Regenerative Economics course at the Capitol Institute.
In her free time, Sam enjoys reading, hiking and providing transport, advisory and UFC umpiring services to her three teenage boys.
