Tessa Dehring

Principal

Tessa co-leads Nous’ organisational performance and leadership practice globally and brings deep experience supporting organisations to enhance organisational performance, culture and leadership.

She has spent more than 12 years at Nous partnering with public, private and not-for-profit clients across Canada, Australia and the UK to help them deliver on their strategic ambitions. Her background as an organisational psychologist shapes her ability to solve complex client challenges and enables her to develop evidence-based and enduring solutions with people at the centre.

Influential work

Partnered with universities across Canada, Australia and the UK to improve organisational performance, culture, workforce and leadership, collaborating on significant multi-year transformation programs and working directly with executive leaders to enable them to connect to deliver on their strategic aspirations
Led a long-term partnership with the National Disability Insurance Agency to deliver strategic, culture and operational improvements, including a pivotal project to reset the delivery of Early Childhood Early Intervention for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which resulted in changes that significantly enhanced the lives of children with disability and their families and carers
Partnered with Kensington Health’s Board and Executive team to develop an evidence-based strategic plan to set them up for growth and a practical implementation plan to enable its ongoing success
Partnered with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority over several years to design a bespoke leadership capability framework, leader assessment process, culture change process and a series of leadership development programs to optimise performance and culture
Engaged in a multi-year partnership with an Australian government agency to help it transform for the future, developing an Enterprise Performance Measurement Framework, Learning and Development Strategy, Core Capability Framework and Mobility Framework to support the agency to deliver on its 2030 mandate
Partnered with the Bastow Institute over three years to support the design, pilot and implementation of a Talent Management Framework for all Victorian public schools to build the pipeline of high-quality school leaders

Outside of Nous

Tessa plays an active role in efforts to translate theory to practice, using her background in organisational psychology to help improve organisations. She is a board-approved supervisor and provides supervision to budding organisational psychologists.

Prior to joining Nous, Tessa worked in specialist organisational psychology roles. She is also a qualified behavioural therapist and previously worked to help children with autism lead better lives.

Tessa is passionate about supporting women in leadership roles and helping young people and those from more disadvantaged backgrounds realise their career aspirations.

In her spare time...

Tessa enjoys keeping active and the outdoors. She has recently rediscovered running and enjoys camping with her partner and dog Luna. She also enjoys travel and languages and is currently learning French.