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
Annette Madvig
Principal
Annette leads Nous’ work in Early Childhood Education and Care and co-leads Nous’ evaluation offer.
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.
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.
Geoff Sjollema
Principal
Geoff is an experienced strategy consultant and project leader, with 15 years’ experience leading high-performing, interdisciplinary teams.
Greg Joffe
Principal
Greg leads projects helping clients to develop and implement their strategy.
Jean-Paul Cardoso
Principal
Jean-Paul is a Principal at Nous Group with more than 20 years of consulting and industry experience across Australia.
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.
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
Lauren Ware
Principal
Lauren co-leads Nous’ regulation practice and specialises in supporting government clients with statutory functions.
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.
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.
