Experience

VincentCare Victoria

• Australia
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Assistant to EGMs

  • Feb 2021 - Present

• EA to CEO

  • Mar 2020 - Aug 2021



Self-employed

• Executive Assistant

  • Jan 2019 - Mar 2020



Our Watch

• EA to CEO

  • Aug 2016 - Mar 2020

  Aug 2019 – Dec 2018 Our Watch Limited Our Watch is a not for profit organisation established in 2013 to drive nationwide change in the culture, behaviours and power imbalances that lead to violence against women and their children. Position: EA to CEO Responsible for day-to-day organisation of CEO’s diary, travel arrangements and provision of up-to-date information for meetings. Achievements include: • Meeting daily requirements of the CEO, as well as additional duties for the Chair, Board members and senior leadership team to ensure strategic goals were achieved. • Liaising with Federal and State government politicians and their offices to ensure that relevant meetings were secured in a timely manner. • Providing a monthly report for the Chair and Board members. • Supervising an office refurbishment, including meetings with tradespeople, building management and architects.



Bunnings Group Limited

• Australia
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 100 - 200 Employee

• EA to GM Human Resources

  • Oct 2008 - Jun 2016

  Bunnings is Australasia’s largest hardware retailer with 344 locations throughout Australia and New Zealand employing 40,000 people. As the GM of HR, Willem Pruys, leads a Human Resources team of 200+ that assist the business with recruitment, safety, employee relations, capability and remuneration. Responsible for the all the usual duties relating to the support of with GM of HR with the additional requirement to assist the senior leadership team located around Australia and New Zealand. It was imperative that I maintained strict confidentiality, particularly during the period when Bunnings was conducting due diligence on the acquisition of Home Base Hardware in the UK. Achievements include: • Preparing and proofreading papers for senior leadership team meetings, board meetings, Wesfarmers sustainability meetings and senior human resources team meetings. • Identifying and then managing changes that realised a 25% reduction in the cost of the Bunnings anniversary recognition plan. • Using operational and strategic plans to develop Powerpoint presentations for annual conferences attended by 500 managers and team members. • Coordinating executive development training programs including, liaison with other GMs for participant nominations, coordination of travel for international facilitators, negotiation with venues, arrangement of travel for participants and distribution of pre-work. • Coordinating over 2,000 short- and long-term incentive letters to be sent around Australia and New Zealand. This involved batching the letters to be signed by individual GM’s and despatching them to the relevant EAs within a strict timeframe, while still maintaining my usual duties.



Clean Energy Council

• Australia
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• EA to CEO

  • Oct 2007 - Mar 2008

  The CEC is the peak body for the clean energy industry in Australia. It represents and works with hundreds of leading businesses in solar, wind, energy efficiency, hydro, bioenergy, energy storage, geothermal and marine, along with more than 4,000 solar installers. Responsible for all EA duties for the CEO including board paper preparation, maintenance of ASIC records and the usual diary management and travel bookings. Achievements include: • Managing the relocation of two offices (one in Carlton and one in Melbourne CBD) to one location in Southbank. Included liaison with office fitout team, removalists, utility providers, IT consultants and other contractors. • Contributing to the successful merger of two member organisations to make the CEC. This included liaison with the Chair and Board members from each individual organisation to ensure they were kept up to date during each step of the merger.



Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA)

• Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• EA to CEO/Chair

  • Jan 2006 - Jul 2007

  ASADA is Australia’s national anti-doping organisation established in 2006 by the Australian Government. The role of ASADI is to develop a sporting culture in Australia that is free of doping, and where an athlete’s performance is purely dependent on talent, determination, courage and honesty. This was a unique role as the CEO/Chair positions were held by the same person which involved needing to keep information for each office separate. The level of confidentiality in this role was extreme due to the sensitivity of drug test results. Achievements include: • Collaborating with managers to provide stability as the strategic direction and responsibilities of ASADA changed dramatically. • Providing secretariat support for the Board and Audit Committee including collation of confidential legal papers.



Wesfarmers Limited

• EA to National HR Manager

  • Aug 1994 - Jan 2001

  Wesfarmers is a leading Australian ASX listed company with a diverse portfolio encompassing retail (Bunnings, Coles, etc), industrial (CSBP, Kleenheat Gas, etc) and other business such as Gresham Partners. This role provided the usual support to the National HR Manager who oversaw all HR activities for the Wesfarmers subsidiaries. This was yet another role requiring the ability to maintain high confidentiality. Achievements included: • Coordinating a variety of team building events for staff of both Wesfarmers Limited and their subsidiaries, including offsite “challenge by choice” events and 7-day trips where staff crewed a tall ship (sometimes through Force 8 gales). • Coordinating executive development training programs including, liaison with other GMs for participant nominations, coordinating travel for international facilitators, negotiating with venues, arranging travel for participants, distributing pre-work, arranging program folders and being on hand at the beginning of each program to assist with any specific requirements • Liaising with the HR functions of all Wesfarmers subsidiaries.