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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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Andrew Benoy

Principal

Andrew leads the Nous Canberra office and is expert in designing and implementing new operating models.

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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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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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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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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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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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Paul Kennedy

Principal

Paul is an expert in designing and implementing digital decision support for complex operations. He has worked as CEO of a start-up and in several technical management roles.

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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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Simone Schulz

Principal

Simone is an experienced consultant who leads large and complex engagements for private sector organisations, governments and not-for-profit organisations across Australia.

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Simonne Wood

Principal

Simonne is a trusted project director for complex strategy and policy consulting projects and is passionate about social policy reform across justice and education.

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