Dr Kelly Samson

Principal

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Kelly is a business transformation expert who specialises in solving workforce challenges, lifting organisational performance and guiding complex transformations arising from strategic redirection, modernisation, scale efficiencies, MoG and mergers.
With an international consulting career that spans over two decades, Kelly has collaborated with a wide range of Fortune 500, ASX 200 and leading Australian public sector organisations. Her consulting expertise is further bolstered by 15 years in corporate human resources and quality and technical engineering roles in the energy and utilities sector. At Nous Group, Kelly also leads the Sydney office and Nous’ leadership program management office.

Influential work

  • Led an award-winning transformation for one of Australia’s largest aged care providers to align to a person-centred care service delivery model
  • Led portfolio change management and cultural transformation for the successful merger of two Australian Government departments
  • Leading Defence’s five-year program to build adaptive leadership capacity across ADF and APS workforces
  • Leading significant multi-year Senior Executive Service and Executive Level leadership development and career management program for several APS departments
  • Led a strategic workforce planning program for a central agency to identify future workforce capabilities and develop a plan to build capability and capacity across five-years of transformation
  • Led a transformation program for a large human services and retail provider to improve service delivery and financial sustainability
  • Led the development and implementation of a higher education provider’s five-year strategy.

Outside of Nous

Kelly is a sessional academic for Charles Sturt University, teaching organisation development and human resource evaluation. Her research on human capital analytics has been published in the International Journal of Business Research.

Kelly holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Charles Sturt University, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of New England, a Bachelor of Adult Education from University of Technology Sydney, and an Associate Diploma of Engineering Survey Drafting from TAFE NSW.

Kelly is accredited in a wide range of organisational culture and leadership diagnostic tools and is a certified professional member of the Australian Human Resources Institute.

In her spare time...

Kelly enjoys team-based sports and spending time outdoors with her family.