Chief Talent Officer

• Jun 2022 - Present

I support our team in their strategic initiatives by helping develop innovative talent ideas, business plans and objectives to help scale the business through growth and to ensure our people & talent programs are consistent with our brand, values and goals.

Talent Operations Director (via Gather)

• Jan 2019 - Present

I've helped build this talent agency from inception with its amazing co-founders. I work behind the scenes to bring Samuels Donegan to life by designing the overall recruitment strategy and enabling the team to work more effectively to help scale the business. By bringing in new ideas to add value, I leverage data to identify the best strategies and areas for improvement for recruitment, sourcing and talent operations by deploying more innovative solutions and delivering more consistent outcomes. I also help forecast future business needs through culture & engagement, EVP, business development, project management, building our people infrastructure and leadership coaching to ensure we are reaching our goals.

Founder | Helping companies hire better from the inside 💕

• Jan 2019 - Present

We work with startups and companies to implement a better way of hiring their future employees by helping recruit talent that will ultimately make their business a success. We help those who are either starting, scaling or transforming their business or anyone that just needs help with a one-off hire. We look at your business from a holistic perspective to develop a tailored hiring strategy and identify opportunities to hire talent against your business goals. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞: 🤯 Recruitment is hard and we don't know where to start 🚀 We’re growing quickly and need talent fast ⚒ We want to improve our people and talent processes 💪🏼 We need extra support in-house 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 When you have little time to proactively source candidates or just need someone to take the hard work out of finding your next hire, our Sourcing Sprints option can help build a quality pipeline of the talent you need - fast! 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 Gather will put you in the driver’s seat by partnering with you to navigate and optimise your people and recruiting roadmap. We'll get your house in order by mapping your workflows to design and enhance the candidate & employee experience. We’ll also help develop attraction and employer branding plans so that we can target the best talent to your business. 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 Our approach is a little different in a way we bring a ‘teach you to fish’ mentality. We WANT to teach you how to source so you can start learning how you can find, engage and hire talent for your business. 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞: University of Melbourne, The HOYTS Group, Val Morgan, Caltex Australia, LION, Aesop, Lighthouse.io, TEAM Software, Cadmus.io, Rumblr, ATOMOS, Invisible Partners, Samuels Donegan, Easey Street Group, Tapestry.ai, Compass Studio, Bapcor, and more.

Head of Talent (via Gather)

• Feb 2019 - May 2022

Consulting on all things people and talent including; designing people initiatives, strategic sourcing & hiring of digital natives, strategists, account managers, marketers and creatives. 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐑𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐫: ATOMOS - we partnered with the COO to hire their new Marketing Director Consulting on all things people and talent including; designing people initiatives, strategic sourcing & hiring of digital natives, strategists, account managers, marketers and creatives. 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐑𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐫: ATOMOS - we partnered with the COO to hire their new Marketing Director

Mum to Remi

• Mar 2021 - May 2021

Talent Acquisition Lead

• Mar 2018 - Feb 2019

Greenfield opportunity for the Melbourne School of Engineering & IT to identify, design and implement a new Talent Acquisition function. Within this complex and tiered environment I was responsible for driving strategic and continued improvement of the recruitment delivery models whilst centralising and standardising practices, increasing performance and capability across the School as well as partnering with University stakeholders to drive our talent acquisition agenda. 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞: Developing a strategic recruitment strategy for MSE Established a new internal TA and Sourcing function Ownership of all employer and social branding initiatives specifically to target global female talent to research and academic roles Implementing recruitment operations including leveraging new technology to improve EX Dramatically reducing agency costs saving MSE approx. $500k Scoping role profiles, talent mapping and sourcing to meet strategic organisation frameworks for 150 new academic, research and professional roles across Engineering and IT, plus normal attrition roles Consulted across the University on best practice recruitment and facilitated strategy workshops

Group Talent Acquisition Manager (Contract)

• Aug 2017 - Mar 2018

Greenfield opportunity to establish and lead the Talent Acquisition function around how to identify, attract, support and retain the right talent to meet business objectives & vision across the Group including HOYTS Cinema/Corporate, Val Morgan, Val Morgan Outdoor (VMO) and CINEads for ANZ region. Working directly with the business, my role was to design and deliver a purpose driven recruitment strategy, coach on all things recruitment and continually innovate and improve the candidate lifecycle. Roles include digital, tech, creative, sales, operations, corporate and volume retail. 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠: Complete recruitment audit and process review Established a centralised TA and sourcing function across the Group Developed and educated our Leaders through coaching Strategic Sourcing and pipelining Talent Management Market Mapping/Insights Ownership of Employment Branding initiatives Vendor and account management Volume recruitment strategies for Cinema Sites 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧: Setting the foundation for a centralised Talent Acquisition and in-house sourcing function (80% roles were outsourced) for AU/NZ Saving the Group $200k within 5 months Managing tactical social media campaigns and attraction plans Coaching senior leaders & teams on best practice recruitment Accelerating growth and building highly engaged teams

Head of Talent Acquisition

• May 2016 - Jul 2017

I consulted to some of Australia's top brands by helping them hire & teaching them how to do it by assembling, tightening and optimising their processes. My focus was to work hands-on with internal HR and Talent Acquisition teams to introduce new talent strategies and deliver real outcomes. This included designing new TA & sourcing functions, process optimisation, tech & innovation, building pipelines, data research through talent profiling & mapping, sourcing assignments and enabling teams to work more effectively to achieve their talent goals. 𝐎𝐧-𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨: LION Caltex Australia Aesop The HOYTS Group

Mum to Tavi

• Sep 2015 - May 2016

Human Resources Business Partner

• Sep 2014 - Sep 2015

𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐑 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐕𝐈𝐂/𝐓𝐀𝐒 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧:Accountable for operational support for HR/IR/ER issuesLaunch & execution of employer brand campaignProject lead to develop a customised national recruitment approval process within SharepointDeliverance on strategic HR projects and implementation of HR policiesSuccessful reduction of TA budget by 15% Led the restructure and change management for the Victorian Manufacturing Plant

Talent Acquisition Business Partner

• Oct 2012 - Sep 2014

𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧:Significant cost reduction - approx. $850k within 1 yearImplemented and project managed eRecruitment system (JobAdder / Linkedin Premium)Developed Employee Referral Incentive ProgramStrategic sourcing strategies & talent mapping for project roles within remote locationsLead for employment branding initiatives, recruitment campaigns and social marketingCreation of Fenner Dunlop Careers incl. design and implementation

Recruitment Advisor

• Jan 2011 - Oct 2012

I partnered with senior business stakeholders and led a small team to manage the end-to-end recruitment processes in sourcing, assessing and securing world class talent. Designing our model to allow the business to hire large quantities of the best hospitality talent into competitive markets within a short time frame.

Recruitment Administrator

• Jul 2010 - Jan 2011

HR Officer

• Jun 2009 - May 2010

Learning the ambit of the HR function and its operation (policy & procedures) whilst supporting Senior Business Partners in providing effective administration support in recruitment, learning & development, payroll and counselling. Learning the ambit of the HR function and its operation (policy & procedures) whilst supporting Senior Business Partners in providing effective administration support in recruitment, learning & development, payroll and counselling.