He has led evaluations and reviews of influential government programs and policies, worked in partnership with organisations to enhance service design and delivery, developed organisational strategies and outcomes frameworks, and supported leaders to effectively and responsively strategic plan. Conrad takes the time to deeply understand his clients and is trusted to deliver high quality work, centre the voice of service users in decision making, and provide valuable and sector-relevant insight.
Prior to Nous, Conrad was a strategist at Australia’s largest social enterprise, Goodstart Early Learning. Here, he learned the inner workings of a large services organisation, developed an deep respect for front-line professionals and experienced first-hand the role of culture in landing transformational change. Preceding this, Conrad worked in the Deloitte Health and Social Impact teams.
Conrad regularly performs as a professional cellist across the classical, commercial and mindfulness genres. He presented his cello yoga work in a talk at TedXSydney 2020 titled “the connection of mind, movement and music”. He enjoys taking the experimental and exploratory nature of music to problem solving with his clients.
Conrad enjoys camping on the coast in his converted SUV, being a puppy (and human) uncle, practicing and teaching yoga, hosting dinner parties and extra parmesan cheese.