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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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Jean Paul Cardoso

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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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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Michael van Koesveld

Principal

Michael is strategic leader with almost 20 years’ experience working in partnership with human services, health, emergency management and community-led organisations to achieve better community outcomes.

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Philippa Prothero

Principal

Philippa supports organisations to build future-focused workforce models, applying a strong data-driven approach and incorporating best practice at all points of the employee life cycle.

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Sarah Connelly

Sarah Connelly

Principal

Sarah has more two decades of experience leading and managing transformational projects and programs.

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