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Our People

Our people are expert, personable and pragmatic. Our people make us Nous.

We recruit exceptional people from diverse fields into all levels of our organisation. We then invest heavily in the continuing learning and knowledge development of all our people. Our leaders include career consultants and a range of former senior executives from the private, public and community sectors. This allows us to provide you with the ideal blend of world-class consulting technique and nuanced sector expertise. 

We create multi-disciplinary teams with skills and perspectives that perfectly complement yours. Our people listen carefully, push the thinking beyond the obvious, and work in the spirit of genuine co-production. Meet the people who can help your organisation achieve performance and positive influence.

Meet the team

Principals

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Annette Madvig

Principal

Annette leads Nous’ work in Early Childhood Education and Care and co-leads Nous’ evaluation offer.

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Brenden Carriker

Principal

A recognised leader in human-centred innovation, Brenden specialises in facilitating co-design for strategies, services and system-wide reforms to deliver real impact.

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Claire Noone

Principal

Claire is a leading thinker in regulatory design and practice, governance and integrity management. She provides strategic and operational advice to governments, regulators and businesses.

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Geoff Sjollema

Principal

Geoff is an experienced strategy consultant and project leader, with 15 years’ experience leading high-performing, interdisciplinary teams.

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Greg Joffe

Principal

Greg leads projects helping clients to develop and implement their strategy.

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Gregory Evans

Principal

Greg brings an uncommon blend of strategic and practical skills to improving leadership capability and influencing culture across private and public sector organisations.

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Jean-Paul Cardoso

Principal

Jean-Paul is a Principal at Nous Group with more than 20 years of consulting and industry experience across Australia.

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John Chow

Principal

John is an organisational design and digital implementation specialist, advising government, start-up and corporate clients.

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Kaushal Vyas

Principal

Kaushal is a digital strategy leader with more than 15 years of executive leadership experience designing and managing digital product and service businesses.

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Kendra Cockburn

Principal

Kendra is a Principal in Nous’ Darwin office with over 15 years of experience in social and economic policy and organisational performance

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Lauren Ware

Principal

Lauren co-leads Nous’ regulation practice and specialises in supporting government clients with statutory functions.

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Marianna Brungs

Principal

Marianna is a qualified lawyer with over 20 years of experience leading work on complex public policy issues with a whole-of-system lens.

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