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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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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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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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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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Monique Jackson

Principal

Monique has more than 15 years of experience in health and human services. She works with clients in system redesign, policy reform, strategy, analysis, operating model design and stakeholder engagement.

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Nikita Weickhardt

Principal

Nikita brings extensive experience in aged care systems, particularly at the intersection of disability and health and ageing services.

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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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Rodney Williams

Guwa man from Queensland, Principal

Rodney has diverse industry experience across the private, public and community sectors. He applies strategic thinking and well-developed commercial skills to solve challenging client problems.

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Sophie O’Connor

Principal

Sophie is expert in strategy, business transformation and public policy. She works with private and public sector clients to understand their requirements and develop innovative and lasting solutions.

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