capacia
For work that doesn’t fit business as usual.
If your organisation is navigating something new, complex or genuinely difficult to place —
I’m here to help.
My strategic, operational and commercial experience across public and private sectors means I know how organisations operate and what’s required to move.
I work at board and executive level, while understanding operational realities and the challenges of delivery.
I bring people along while making sure to deliver what you need, when it’s needed.
I can help you with
A new initiative that needs to hit the ground running.
A stakeholder group that needs to come together — properly.
Strategic planning and team building that needs someone who can engage the room, guide the discussion and take people along for the journey.
Or just a problem that needs a trusted hand to get it sorted, so you can move on.
Capacia:
Sam Hannah-Rankin
Capacia is Sam Hannah-Rankin — an independent practitioner whose career has taken her across government, private sector, philanthropy and community, working at the interfaces that are hardest to navigate and most important to get right.
Sam specialises in setting up new functions and businesses — particularly in tight timeframes where navigation is difficult and a working model is needed before longer-term commitments are made. She has deep experience convening and leading complex stakeholder groups at executive and board level, supporting constructive engagement at the sensitive interfaces between government, community, regulators and industry.
Her career has spanned executive leadership in the Victorian Public Service — including establishing the VPSC’s First Peoples branch, leading whole-of-government workforce reform, and directing the $11m Public Sector Innovation Fund — alongside senior roles at Australia Post, Bendigo Bank and Fairfax Digital, and management consulting with McKinsey & Company.
That breadth isn’t incidental. It’s what makes it possible to work at complex interfaces — to understand what government, funders, community organisations and private sector partners each actually need, speak their languages, and find the path that works for all of them.