Anita Sarris
Principal
Anita is an organisational performance and capability expert with more than 15 years’ experience designing organisational structures, systems, processes and culture across a rage of industries including resources, energy, and government.
Anita is passionate about designing progressive work environments that allow people and organisations to thrive and creating the people engagement necessary to enact change. At Nous she has led influential work supporting clients with their workforce strategy, capability development, leadership, culture, operating model, and change. Her career has spanned both consulting and management roles across Australia, the UK, and Peru.
Influential work
- Led the development of a 10-year strategic workforce plan for a major global resource company, identifying key strategic workforce drivers, critical capabilities, and a future demand profile, with practical strategies to build the required workforce over time.
- Created a learning program aimed at building a culture of respect and inclusion across a large operational workforce in the energy sector, a program that received outstanding feedback, was made a condition of employment for the whole workforce, and delivered through over 130 sessions
- Led a form and function review for a statewide government service provider, including a detailed review of current state and design of recommended future service delivery model, service catalogue, organisational structure, ways of working and internal processes to deliver
- Supported the development of a whole of state education workforce strategy, working in close partnership with the client to advise on workforce segmentation, critical roles identification and analysis, and development of initiatives to build the workforce
- Developed a strategic learning roadmap for a large WA government agency, to transform its approach to learning and development, through a clear vision, guiding principles for learning design and delivery, and an operating model, service model and structure to better meet business needs
- Reviewed and redesigned the social housing operating model for WA, mapping out existing processes, roles and responsibilities, and redesigning workflows and structures to improve clarity, efficiency and effectiveness
- Developed an enterprise-wide capability framework for a large energy utility, outlining the core capabilities required across the organisation to enable its strategy, in the context of the energy transition
Outside of Nous
Before joining Nous Anita held a variety of management roles in Rio Tinto, including manager of organisational development in its global headquarters, and manager of learning and development for one of Rio Tinto’s largest major capital projects in Peru. She holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) from Curtin University.
In her spare time...
After many years living overseas, Anita loves exploring WA’s local beauty with her young family. Her other passions include film, music, yoga and reading.