MEET YOUR PRESENTERS
Keynote: Dr Jen Frahm
Co-founder of the Agile Change Leadership Institute
Dr Jen Frahm is the co-founder of The Agile Change Leadership Institute and builds change capability in organizations. She is a global expert on organisational change, communication and transformation, three times published author, a tamer of ambiguity, speaker of truths and solver of problems. A sought-after speaker she is known for being at the frontier of business agility and change.
Andrew Butow
Founder & CEO, Earth2Mars
Andrew founded Earth2Mars to help people make a difference in the world. With over two decades of experience, he has been practising human-centred change with his clients across the world, helping them embrace digital collaboration and solve complex change problems by leveraging the human potential right under executives' noses.
He brings together the best of business, consulting, design-thinking and behavioural science into a diverse range of projects and industries spanning from transformational technology to organisational change (big, small or somewhere in between).
As co-founder of Earth2Mars, Andrew leads a consulting, learning and coaching practise that has created an energetic movement – bursting traditional bubbles of work through co-creation and digital collaboration. He loves helping force-for-good organizations, leaders, teams, and individuals shift their mindsets so that we are fully committed and empowered to find our space in the universe, now and in the future, so we can make history.
AI Panel: Lauren Ryder
CEO Leading Edge global
Lauren is global thought leader in business transformation, specialising at the intersection of human potential and technological innovation.
With 20 years of transformation and change management experience across industries such as Banking, Finance, Telco, and Construction, she now is CEO at Leading Edge Global, where she works with leadership teams in global businesses to deliver enterprise-wide change and capability improvement programs to achieve business growth.
AI Panel: Ali Juma
Change & Communication Management Specialist I Host Podcaster @ The Inner Game of Change | Change Experience Leader | Change Capability
Ali is a trusted advisor, effective communicator, and strategic influencer in digital transformation, with a notable role as an influential contributor to AI strategy formulation within a higher education setting.
Attuned to stakeholders' needs and aspirations, Ali's expertise in engagement strategy, ensures impactful change and empathetic communication.
Ali's approach to facilitating adoption of AI strategy, coupled with a commitment to empathetic leadership, offers trusted guidance and a people-centric perspective in helping stakeholders differentiate "the noise from the signals" of change. He is also the host of the most listened to podcast in change management around the world: The inner game of change podcast .
Cherie Mylordis
Founder, Work Futurist, Leadership and Business Transformation Coach
Cherie Mylordis is the founder of nextgenify, and a Sydney-based work futurist, speaker, transformation and innovation coach, on a mission to help organisations reimagine the world of work for a better future. As a founding member of Accenture’s global change practice, with extensive expertise spanning strategy, complex change, agility and innovation, Cherie has a deep understanding of the challenges facing today's leaders.
Cherie credits her five years working on the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games with shaping her approach to purpose-driven leadership and collaboration on a massive scale.
Melanie Loy
CEO & Founder Hey Mel! Communications & Training
Mel is a serial ideator, life-long learner, and the founder and CEO of Hey Mel! Communication & Training, a small agency with big energy.
With more than 20 years in in-house corporate communications roles, Mel has earned a reputation as a specialist in internal, change, and crisis communication. She supports organisations of all shapes and sizes to navigate tricky times, build engagement, and protect reputations.
Mel is also the host of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, an international speaker and workshop facilitator, President of IABC Queensland, and a yoga teacher!
Brooke Chantler
Senior Organisational Change Consultant
Brooke is a change professional with 17 years of experience in transformational change, and prides herself on being the change professional you bring in to help simplify and solve complex problems. She has held a range of roles with a global remit in organisations ranging from 5,000 to over 100,000 employees, with recent experience delivering organisation-wide change on digital transformation and simplification programs. She has lived and worked in both Australia and the UK, and spent considerable time on the ground in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas implementing projects across the banking, legal and engineering industries.
Brooke has an MBA in Change from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and is Prosci certified.
Dr Jess Tayel
Change & Transformation global leader – Founder of People of Transformation
Jess is recognised as a global thought leader in Change Leadership, Transformation and Strategy Execution with over 25 years of experience.
She has enabled and delivered change in Apple, Google, World Cup, ABN Amro, Emirates, Airbus, Macquarie and others. She is the founder of the People of Transformation community and the Go-To Leader Program dedicated to high-performing change & transformation leaders.
Jess is also an executive coach and Mentor to C-level and change leaders worldwide.
Jennifer Zuber
Change & Transformation | Capability Uplift | Mentor & Coach | GAICD
Jenn’s background is in change and transformation consulting fulfilling roles including change director, senior change lead and program/ project manager. She has over 25+ years change experience across multiple sectors and a wide variety of large-scale change programs. She has a keen interest in NeuroLeadership and Human Centred Change.
Jenn is the lead author and facilitator for the globally recognised Change Portfolio Management Foundations & Advanced programs offered by the Change Management Institute.
Kirryn Zerna
Communication & Connection Conference Speaker | Corporate Facilitator | Keynote Speaker | Author | GAICD | MMgt | BComm |
On a quest to unlock that spark of connection that fuels the world’s best leaders, teams and brands, Kirryn Zerna is an award-winning keynote speaker and author with over 20 years experience helping corporate, government and small business clients build better connections, for better results.
Kirryn has studied extensively in business and communication through University of Sydney, Macquarie University, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Passionate about connection from a whole system perspective, she serves as a Non Executive Director on two not for profit boards. In 2017, she was awarded the Kerrie Nairn Scholarship for an emerging professional speaker by Professional Speakers Australia; and has since served on their national board and as co-covenor for their national convention in 2021.
Lisa Carlin
Strategy Execution Specialist and Founder of the Turbocharge Membership.
Lisa specialises in accelerating strategic projects. She has pioneered the Turbocharge approach, using Human-Centered Strategy to deliver over 50 transformation programs.
Her early career was with McKinsey and Accenture. In 1999, she started her own business (now part of the FutureBuilders Group), working with prestigious corporates, multinationals, government and high tech ventures.
Lisa is Founder of the Turbocharge membership, a global community of business leaders and change makers who want to grow their reputation in getting things done at scale.
Louisa Vanderkruk
Strategic Change Management | Organisational Change and Projects | Lean Change Specialist
Louisa has had a wide and varied career helping organisations to implement change. She has worked across Australia and New Zealand on everything from employee engagement, organisation culture, business readiness, digital transformation, new ways of working and even office relocations. Louisa loves learning and finding new methods and tools to support change management and is an active member of the Change Management Institute in Australia.
Donna Blake
Coaching and Change Manager, Bupa Customer & Transformation Office
Donna is an experienced leader with many years helping organisations realise the adoption of change, uplift delivery performance, and build capabilities across different business segments and industries. Donna takes a human-centered approach to leading teams, engaging audiences, stakeholders, and employees. Using insights and diagnostic tools, Donna's leadership style and systems-thinking approach allows her to co-create outcomes that are both measurable and intrinsically linked to organisational culture and strategic goals.
Greg Taylor: AI Panel facilitator
Director Human-Centred Change, Salesforce
Greg enjoys building capacity for people to adopt organisational change with confidence, helping them to explore and master new opportunities in order to bring about sustainable business improvements. I also believe that there is immense untapped value in helping people better connect with each other and to manage unstructured information in organisations.
His latest passion is building confidence and competence in adopting AI!
Dr Temre Green
General Manager Change Management - Seven Consulting
Temre is an award winning leader with over 20 years’ experience across change management, management consulting, leadership and general management. Temre has designed, planned and delivered change programs - with budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars - that were driven by a range of factors, such as digital innovation, growth, compliance, regulations, restructures and economic downturns.
Temre has built and led robust in-house Change Management functions (managing 50 CMs) in the past, and she recently launched the Change Management Practice at Seven Consulting, which specialises in Project Management, Change Management and PMO across Sydney, Melbourne and Manila with 120 employees.
Vicky-Kerry Offord
Strategic Change Leader
Vicky is a Strategic Change Leader dedicated to strengthening the value of portfolio change in organisations by building capability through design of human-centred, sustained change that aligns to strategic goals and unlocks business benefits
Sharon Connolly
Change Communications Director
Sharon Connolly is the founder of Change Superhero. Change Managers from all corners of the globe bookmark from Sharon's tools, templates and training to help them beautifully deliver their Change. Over one million Change Superhero templates are downloaded every year! Sharon delivered her first webinar on corporate transformation in 1993. Since then, she has lived and worked in 12 countries on three continents, where, as her change superhero tribe will tell you, she never fails to sprinkle unicorn dust.
Lindy Visagie
GM, Organisational Development, Diversity and Strategic Change, DuluxGroup
Lindy has spent her career consulting to and working within companies to drive strategic change. In that time, she has learnt that the processes of change management will often not get the outcome that you want. Instead, she takes a systemic approach to driving change, which focuses on the importance of understanding the system and how to intervene to change it.
Lindy's career has spanned consulting in Australia, the US and Europe, as well as HR executive roles in Westpac and DuluxGroup.
Masterclass: Pippa Hague
Executive & Team Coach and Consultant
PIppa’s passion and work focuses on working with great leaders to deliver their visions · Building enterprise change competence · Driving teams to meet their whole potential · Strategy and Planning.
Applying neuroscience and behavioural economics to the world of enterprise change delivery and having some fun on the way .
Outside of this Pippa is committed to travelling the world · documenting cultures · hearing and telling stories · making jewellery
AI Panel: Max Theseira
Executive Leadership | Enterprise Transformation | Program Management | Operational Excellence | C-Suite Advisory & Influence | Change Management | Stakeholder Management | Strategic Planning | P&L Management
Max has over 25 years’ experience helping organisations in Europe and the ANZ effect digital business transformation and large complex organisational change, across a range of industries in both the public and private sectors.
Most recently Max led IBMs Talent & Transformation Practice across the Australia and New Zealand markets delivering engagements covering enterprise innovation, digital reinvention, Ai, data and analytics, workforce and talent optimisation, organisation design, culture change and customer experience.
He is also an experienced educator and holds an adjunct faculty position with the Australian Graduate School of Management and is an Associate faculty at Melbourne Business School. He typically lectures on Digital Transformation and Organisational Change.
Masterclass: Noa Rein
Founder of Spark & Rumble Consulting, Culture & People Experience Designer
As a seasoned Human Behavioral expert and self-proclaimed People Geek, Noa is on a mission to design transformations that leave a lasting positive impact.
Trained as an Organisational Psychologist, her journey spans academic research, teaching, and hands-on experience in executive coaching and senior strategic HR roles. Noa is the architect of change, focusing on crafting transformations that not only stick but reshape the very fabric of organizations.
Noa brings a grounded perspective to the dynamic field of change management. She is your trusted guide, navigating the complexities of human behavior within organizations with a purposeful and measured touch.
AI Panel: Declan Foster
Founder & CEO of Project Pal AI | Thought Leader | Author - Humology: How to Put Humans Back at the Heart of Technology
Declan is an industry leader in project delivery and change management and is ranked in the top 10 Thought Leaders in project management by Thinkers 360.
He is the co-author of an award-winning, best-selling book - Humology: How to put humans back at the heart of technology.
Declan has an honours degree in Artificial Intelligence and studies AI for Business at Oxford University. He has worked in the project delivery space for over 25 years in Australia and Europe. He is qualified and has experience in both change management and project management.
His new start-up, Project Pal AI, is an AI-enabled project management tool that improves the quality and consistency of communications and reporting for project management professionals while providing significant productivity savings.
Presenters & topics are subject to change