MEET YOUR PRESENTERS

  • Most people don’t realise that creativity and curiosity are addictive. Simon Banks definitely does. Hooked for life, he’s a creativity, innovation and design nerd-in-chief, international keynote speaker, author, co-host of the hit podcast The Occupational Philosophers and a happily recovering professional artist.

    He keeps a foot in both the creative and corporate worlds, bringing fresh energy and a different lens to help teams build creative confidence and move from playing it safe to getting dangerously curious.

  • Lynette does her best work with organisations that actually care, especially those driven by purpose, not PR. Put her in a room with smart people, big questions, and a wall covered in Post‑its, and she’s in her element. That’s where the energy lifts, the thinking gets real, and the creativity starts to move.

    She’s relentless about solving the right problem, not the loudest or most convenient one. With a design mindset and a healthy disrespect for surface‑level fixes, she helps leaders navigate the messy future of work - leadership, employee experience, learning, development, and change - with clarity, curiosity, and a bit of courage.

  • Amy Leighton is an Enterprise Change Partner at Aurecon with 15 years' experience delivering transformation across global organisations, specialising in M&A integrations, frontline technology change and organisational design. She has presented at ACMP Global Connect, co‑led Women in Agile Brisbane and is a current Board Member of ACMP ANZ.

  • Christina is a co-founder of the Change Management Institute, is a well-respected practitioner, coach and advocate for lifelong learning, the colour yellow and positive thinking.

  • Temre is an Industrial-Organisational Psychologist and an award-winning leader with over 20 years’ experience across Change Management, consulting and general management. Temre has led significant transformation programs and large Change Management teams. Temre is currently a General Manager at Seven Consulting, a firm that specialises in Project Management, Change Management and Governance across Sydney, Melbourne and Manila

  • Jo Warren has been leading meaningful change for allfields for over 15 years. With a reputation for calm leadership and a deep commitment to supporting people. Jo has guided staff, clients and teams through complex delivery environments.

    Jo champions sustainable human-centre change across every engagement.

  • Karla Micallef advises CEOs and executive teams on strategy and enterprise transformation. With more than 20 years across consulting, executive roles and boards, she brings commercial acumen and practical delivery experience to high-pressure environments. She is the former Global President and Chair of the Change Management Institute.

  • Allison Tsao brings experience as a change practitioner, executive coach, group facilitator, and program designer. She works at the individual, interpersonal, and systemic level to help complex organisations of all sizes adapt and thrive through transformational change. She draws on over 20 year of experience working with 40+ organisations across 4 continents.  Originally from the USA, Allison holds a Masters in Organisation Development from Pepperdine University. Her approach is trauma-informed and draws from transdisciplinary fields including systems thinking, complexity science, quantum physics, adult development, somatics, and wisdom traditions. 

  • Gareth established TQSolutions in 2008 and today TQ is one of Australia’s leading Workforce & Talent Advisory and Services businesses.

    Day to day Gareth leads TQ’s Advisory team and is a regular speaker and thought leader on topics that are shaping workforce and talent issues around the world including AI Adoption, Work Analysis & Redesign, HR Tech, Skills & Task Intelligence.

    Gareth has overseen high profile projects with ANZ Bank, Qantas, Worley, Westpac, Bupa, Philips, IAG, Australia Post, PwC, Nab and Deloitte to name a few.

    Gareth is passionate about making the world of work a better place for workers and businesses and is genuinely excited about the opportunity that currently presents itself to talent practitioners around the world. One thing is for sure, nothing is going to be the same ever again

  • Jenn is a recent recipient of the Change Management Institute’s "Change Leader Award” and global thought leader in change portfolio management who loves a good story, sharing the ups and downs of life in the change space and self-declared “gig-pig".

  • Karina is an award-winning strategic and service design leader with over 30 years’ experience helping government and social enterprises navigate operational complexity. She specialises in business improvement and service design, building the integrated systems and processes required to help large-scale organisations work more effectively and deliver measurable outcomes. Prior to her current work as a solo consultant, Karina was a Principal at Meld Studios, one of Australia’s most highly regarded and awarded service design consultancies.

    She is an expert in applying a systems lens.

  • Marco Di Santis is a proud neurodivergent Agile Change Manager with deep experience leading business and technology transformations, including AI, process re-engineering and strategic change initiatives. A natural relationship-builder with a flair for challenging the status quo, he brings energy, empathy, and a strong people focus to every change journey.

  • Melisah Feeney is an organisational psychologist and Principal at Bendelta, specialising in the human experience of organisational change. Her work focuses on how leaders can reduce psychosocial risk, sustain wellbeing, and create the conditions for people to adapt and perform under pressure. Prior to joining Bendelta, Melisah held executive and national leadership roles across the Australian Red Cross, Australian and State Government, where she led whole-of-organisation transformations to embed trauma-informed practice, clinical governance, and staff wellbeing frameworks in frontline care environments.

  • Louisa is a senior change manager and lean change specialist with deep experience helping organisations navigate complex transformation. She blends human‑centred design, agile delivery and practical lean change tools with a warm, engaging facilitation style that makes learning both fun and immediately useful.

    Her masterclasses leave participants energised, confident and ready to put lean change into action. Louisa volunteers as Australia's Country Lead for the Change Management Institute.

  • For over 25 years, Gabrielle Pimstone has worked with leaders when change becomes demanding and familiar approaches stop working. She is known for bringing clarity to complexity, and for intervening in ways that create real change rather than short-term compliance. Originally from South Africa, Gaby holds an Honours degree in Industrial Psychology from the University of Cape Town. She is a certified Process Work group facilitator, Barrett Values Centre coach, resilience practitioner, and design thinking practitioner, and has trained in Tavistock group dynamics, organisational culture with Edgar Schein at MIT, and trauma counselling through the South African Trauma Council

  • Brenda Frith is an Associate Director at Changeworks Consulting with over 20 years of experience delivering large-scale organisational change. As the former ‘Head of Change’ at AMP Financial Services, she led enterprise-wide transformation initiatives across one of Australia's leading financial services organisations.  Brenda applies neuroscience principles to improve change readiness and adoption whilst ensuring psychosocial safety.

  • Evan Tyson is a transformation lead and agile change practitioner who helps large organisations turn strategy into outcomes. He specialises in embedding agile ways of working inside complex, especially ERP and platform modernisation, making change work visible, measurable, and deliverable through tailored agile practices. Evan has led cross functional delivery across product, technology, operations, and compliance, including serving as delivery lead on a $500M enterprise transformation at a major energy retailer. He has coached product owners, scrum masters, and program leads across banking, public sector, resources, and agriculture, and uplifted delivery capability through hands on Agile, Jira, and Confluence training. Evan’s work spans global and local contexts, from transformations impacting ~7,000 users across ~50 countries to public sector initiatives serving 500,000+ citizens. He is motivated by making the complex simple, guiding leaders through “wagile” environments, and building practical patterns that scale readiness at pace

  • Jenine Waters is the Founder of Watershed Way and a trusted partner to leaders navigating defining moments. With more than two decades in executive and advisory roles, she brings clear thinking and a deep understanding of how organisations and people actually work.

    Jenine is known for cutting through the noise, getting to the heart of what’s really going on and helping leaders see a clear way forward.

  • Joanne Martin is a change management practitioner and published author who supports organisations delivering complex transformation, with a focus on how change is understood, experienced, and adopted in ambiguous environments. Her upcoming book, Beyond Broadcast: Communicating Change for Adoption in Complex Organisations, reframes communication as a core change capability and explores how practitioners can build sustainable careers using purposeful communication, AI, and digital platforms.

  • Katrina Jackson is a transformation specialist passionate about unlocking true collaboration through ways of working. Currently a Change and Enablement lead at Atlassian, she partners with blue chip and Fortune 500 companies to help them innovate, adapt, and achieve results. With a keen focus on how AI can accelerate teamwork and productivity, Katrina empowers organisations to harness technology for meaningful, lasting behaviour change.

  • Matt is a change leader with over 20 years’ experience delivering complex organisational change across large-scale transformation programs globally. Through his work across infrastructure, resources, energy, and property sectors, he identified a critical gap in how change is managed, with traditional approaches struggling to scale in environments of constant transformation. Matt is the Founder of Matae, a change management software platform designed to help organisations embed change as business-as-usual. Matae enables change practitioners, change leaders, PMOs and executives to visualise change impact, manage change load, and proactively address delivery risk to support sustained outcomes.

  • Natasha Redman is one of Melbourne’s leading change management specialists, a Kath and Kim superfan and a passionate Agile enthusiast. She has worked across a range of industries and technologies and with many of Australia’s favourite corporates. With a strong background in change leadership, she founded Casa De Cambio (Spanish for ‘House of Change’) in 2019 because she saw a real need for sustainable change. That means really understanding her clients’ business – not just delivering point solutions or bringing in change managers to tick the compliance boxes. When she takes on a client, she starts by getting clear on the business problem. Then she designs solutions and provides the right level of support to ensure those solutions keep working when she leaves. Natasha’s strong mentoring background has led to multiple opportunities to build change capability within large organisations. She is often sought out to coach leaders and companies on how to implement change well and demonstrate what good looks like and build tailored tools and methodologies to meet their needs. Natasha’s passion for all things change led to her creating and hosting a successful podcast (also called Casa de Cambio!) about change, technology, innovation and leadership.

  • Robyn Greaves is a career change specialist, author, and coach who helps experienced professionals design meaningful and flexible later-career pathways, drawing on more than two decades of leadership and change experience across major organisations. Her upcoming book, Your Third Chapter, and the AI-powered Third Chapter Companion challenge traditional retirement narratives and support professionals to rethink how experience and contribution fit within the modern world of work.

  • Adrienne Bateup‑Carlson is the Founder of Luminous and a strategic communication specialist who helps organisations land messages that people understand, remember and act on. With deep experience in brand strategy and organisational storytelling, she brings a clear, compelling perspective on how humans absorb information, and why so much change communication fails to cut through. Adrienne has worked alongside executives and teams through major transformations, helping them communicate with clarity, confidence and authenticity. She is known for her ability to turn complexity into communication that actually works.

  • Catherine is a Principal at Bendelta with deep expertise in executive team effectiveness and alignment.

    She partners closely with senior teams to strengthen how they think together, surface differences productively, and build clarity, alignment and commitment through periods of change. Prior to joining Bendelta, Catherine worked as a Director at Macquarie Group, where she held a range of leadership roles across complex strategic change initiatives. She brings a distinctive combination of expertise in strategy, leadership development and culture change, alongside extensive experience in executive team facilitation and coaching. Catherine has worked with Top Teams across Australia and globally

  • Dr Samantha Rush is a cognitive decision-making specialist who helps leaders navigate change, risk, and accountability in complex environments. Her work examines how decisions and change are actually perceived under pressure, and why value alone is rarely enough to drive adoption. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and her PhD research in decision-making, she supports leaders and organisations to design decision and change environments that people can accept, trust, and act on. With over 20 years’ commercial experience across insurance, intelligence, technology, transport, non-profit, and professional services, Samantha is known for blending intellectual rigour with an engaging, down-to-earth style that makes complex ideas feel accessible and relevant.

  • Dr Luella Forbes is a change and transformation specialist, consulting on restructures and post merger integration. With 25 years’ experience as well as a doctorate in organisational storytelling for change, she helps organisations to thrive despite change. She also hosts the Career Stories podcast, inspired by supporting leaders at career crossroads during organisational restructures.

  • Mel Loy is a self-confessed serial ideator, obsessed with how humans behave and what that means for effective communication. She is the author of two books, a podcast host, and prolific LinkedIn-ner! Her small but might agency, Cuttlefish, offers change communication consulting and training services to clients of all shapes and sizes around the world.

  • Nichola Lowman is Director of Enterprise Change at Aurecon, with over 20 years’ global leadership experience driving transformation across the UK, US, Europe, Asia and Australia, and is an industry thought leader who presented at ACMP Global Connect 2025 on building and scaling an Enterprise Change Office.

  • Paul Ichilcik is a Principal at Bendelta and leads the Strategic Communications practice. His focus is on helping executives define change priorities and translate them into compelling narratives that drive action. Prior to joining Bendelta, Paul was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co. working on major transformations to engage complex organisations in change through integrated communication strategies. He also worked in Executive Communications for Amazon Web Services and was a leader in Lippincott’s Organisational Engagement practice.

  • With over 25 years of experience empowering change and project teams across nine countries, Haydn Thomas (Mindavation's Chief Mindavator) is renowned for his high-energy, interactive presentations. His passion for people development and guiding people through change is what brings him to the stage. Often voted 'best speaker' at events globally, Haydn challenges audiences to be courageous, igniting a spark that people can apply professionally and personally to accelerate their ability.

  • Sarah has been leading product design teams for over 20 years, working across entertainment, finance, property, and tech. Most recently she was at Atlassian leading Core Design Services including the Support and Community websites, before that Sarah scaled the design team at Domain Property Group, and spent over a decade at Westpac progressing through various design and experience leadership roles

  • Shiree Hart is the Change Director at allfields, where she leads a nationwide team of 25 senior change and adoption specialists supporting some of Aotearoa’s most complex transformation programmes. With extensive experience shaping change frameworks, building organisational capability, and guiding leaders through high stakes delivery environments, Shiree specialises in building relationships with those that really can influence change and adoption. Known for her practical, people centred approach, she brings common sense and bridges the gap between strategy and execution.

  • With 30 years of experience leading over 300 organisational design projects and mentoring thousands of business leaders, transformation, change, and HR professionals, Dr Hofmeyr is regarded as a thought leader in organisational design. She is the inventor of the SysCAP approach, which is founded on human-centred design and agile change principles. The SysCAP Organisational Design certification program is a groundbreaking course that teaches the foundations of organisational design best practices and equips change practitioners with practical tools and skills.
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