About
me
I’m an experienced leader and facilitator, focused on new capabilities, innovative business models and better ways of working in the government and for purpose sector.
My work is focused on creating change – working with people, organisations and coalitions to make useful things happen within and beyond the structures of institutional decision-making.
My career has been largely inside government and large corporates. I’ve moved between senior in-house roles and external consulting practice, and the pattern of moving from in-house to outside-in has given me a deep understanding of how the same thing can look very different depending on where you’re standing.
Most recently I was an Executive Director in the Victorian Public Service, at the Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Victorian Public Sector Commission. My focus here was on public sector innovation and reform, as well as workforce policy and capability development.
I established the Public Sector Innovation Fund, an $11m program partnering 48 agencies across more than 30 projects, which among other things opened new approaches to government procurement of small businesses and start-ups.
I set up Victoria's first Behavioural Insights Unit, founded the VPS Innovation Network, which now connects more than 20,000 public servants, piloted government’s first coworking spaces and emergency mobility surge models, and established the Commission's First Peoples branch in response to the Yoorrook Justice Commission.
Powering all of this was operational management - including budget bids, restructures, trusts and fee-for-service arrangements - the unglamorous machinery that moves good ideas into funded work and real outcomes.
Before government I worked in corporate development and new business establishment at Australia Post, Bendigo Bank and Fairfax Digital, with consulting at McKinsey & Company and smaller firms in between. At Australia Post I built and ran a $70m identity services business. At Bendigo Bank I designed a joint venture around a world-first equity release product, and led the Basel II implementation with APRA.
A technology thread also runs through. I launched and ran the Fairfax employment platforms, worked in technology consulting, introduced automated credit decisioning for consumer lending at Bendigo, designed secure digital communications models at Australia Post, and launched the Victorian Government’s jobs and skills platform. My focus has always been on understanding the business opportunity, and bringing the technology in service to the need.
I'm a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, hold an Executive MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, and have served on boards including States of Change, Habitat for Humanity Victoria and the Victorian Women's Housing Association.
In my free time, I enjoy reading and hiking; but mostly I’m kept busy providing transport, advisory and UFC refereeing services to my three sons.