Experience

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  Wildife Victoria

  • Head of People & Culture

    • Jan 2023 - Present
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  LUCRF Super

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Head of People & Culture

    • Apr 2019 - Jul 2022
    • Melbourne, Australia

    Executive leader accountable for creating and operationalising the end-to-end strategic people and culture agenda for an industry superannuation fund with a strong social mission to represent the interests of the lowest paid superannuants in Australia. Accountable for identifying and implementin...

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  Daniel Farley HR & Employment Law consultant

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Principal

    • Sep 2018 - Oct 2021
    • Melbourne, Australia

    HR and Workplace Relations Consulting across a number of industry sectors such as professional services, education and technology/digital. Areas of expertise include restructures, organisational design and transformation, strategic HR, employment law and IR, coaching, mediation, talent acquisiti...

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  Monash College

  • Deputy Director Human Resources - Business Partnering, Advisory & Talent ...

    • Apr 2017 - Aug 2018

    Responsible for leading the HR Business Partnering, Advisory & Talent Acquisition functions to deliver HR services to all business divisions of Monash College. My accountability includes designing and delivering people strategies and programs including leading teams to provide operational HR...

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  Telstra

  • Australia
  • Telecommunications
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Corporate Units HR Manager

    • Mar 2012 - Sep 2016

    Complete accountability for delivering an accelerated cultural change and operating model program for an IT workforce of over 2,000 employees, before taking up a role providing strategic business partnering to the Corporate Units. The Corporate Units comprise Legal Services, Corporate Affairs, the Office of the Company Secretary and CEO's Office (approx.400 employees in total). Services provided include HR people planning, operating model review, capability uplift, talent and succession planning, performance and coaching, workplace culture, and health and wellbeing programs.Achievements include:- the implementation of a significant operating model and talent management strategy, which resulted in improved talent mobility and launch of a team vision;- a professional learning academy that increased employee engagement by 10 points;- a series of internal engagements as an executive coach that saved the organisation over $10,000 per quarter; and- successfully establishing an innovative operating model for IT businesses comprising a high performance transformation component.

  • HR Director

    • Oct 2014 - Aug 2015

    Overall responsibility for the HR Strategy and provision of HR services to 4 Telstra businesses, including Business Support & Improvement, Corporate Units, Wholesale and Legal Services. These businesses comprised revenue generating streams and support functions that collectively employed approximately 2,000 employees and included 20% of the senior executive population of Telstra. In this role, I reported to the Group Executive (direct report to CEO), Human Resources and led a team of 14 employees, including a strategic business partnering function, to provide HR services to 4 other Group Executives and their leadership teams.During my time in this role, my achievements included the design and implementation of a new operating model for HR service delivery, contribution to a major talent initiative and pioneering the implementation of a values-based measurement model and scorecard process, resulting in 100% adoption rate across the leadership teams of supported business functions.

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  BHP Billiton

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • HR Manager

    • Feb 2011 - Feb 2012
    • Melbourne, Australia

    In this role, I led the strategic and operational HR planning and activities for 4 corporate client groups, as well as managing organisation-wide policy programs such as annual reporting and Code of Conduct/Whistleblowers related-programs of work. I business partnered with and coached executives...

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  National Australia Bank

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Senior HR Business Partner

    • Oct 2008 - Feb 2011
    • Melbourne, Australia

    I initially business partnered with the IT function of nabCapital, the wholesale division of the National Australia Bank at that time. My primary responsibility and standout achievement in this role was change management of a large cultural transformation program across the IT business (approx.9...

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  Coles Myer / Coles Group Limited

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • HR Manager / Manager, Industrial Services (In-House Counsel)

    • Aug 2004 - Oct 2008
    • Melbourne, Australia

    My mandate was to create and establish a team to tactically manage complex HR and employee relations issues nationally, and coach managers to deal with complex HR issues. In this role, I reported to the General Counsel of Coles Myer, and provided HR and employment law services to clients across ...

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  Middletons

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Senior Associate

    • 2000 - 2005
    • Melbourne, Australia
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  SIAG

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Legal Counsel

    • 1998 - 2000
    • Melbourne, Australia