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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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Tim Orton

Managing Principal & CEO

Tim is the founder, Managing Principal and CEO of Nous Group. He has led Nous Group through 25 years of uninterrupted growth including expansion across Australia, the UK, North America, Mexico, Ireland and New Zealand.

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Anita Sarris

Principal

Anita is expert in designing organisational culture, systems and processes that optimise performance, and in creating the people engagement necessary to enact change.

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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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Christie Allison

Principal

Christie is an organisational development specialist with over 15 years of experience. She partners with clients to lead, design and deliver innovative initiatives. 

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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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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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Heidi Wilcoxon

Principal

Heidi has 20 years of experience in public, private and not-for-profit environments in Australia, the UK and the Middle East. Heidi is an expert in public health who has worked as a project lead and manager. 

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Dr Kelly Samson

Principal

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.

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Krisztina Barnett

Principal

Krisztina is a seasoned people and organisational effectiveness professional specialising in complex change, business transformation, and people and organisation programs.

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Maria Jolly

Principal

Maria is committed to collaborating with stakeholders to improve education, health and wellbeing.

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Mark Booth

Principal

Mark has worked for more than 35 years in public policy, including at the highest levels of government in four countries, specialising in health policy.

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Megan Huisman

Principal

Megan combines deep strategy and transformation implementation experience with a focus on high-performance leadership to enable her clients’ success.

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