As a social and cultural anthropologist, Therese strives to partner with as many people as she can to create inclusive communities that celebrate our diversity. Therese’s passion for diversity, equity and inclusion are what drives the Collaborative Culture team to achieve excellent outcomes for our clients, their customers, and the wider community. Coupled with extensive senior leadership experience in a multitude of sectors including, disability, aged, employment services, mental health, family violence, and child protection services, Therese is an all-rounder and our principal consultant.

She thrives to deliver bespoke solutions for her clients ranging from strategic overview and planning, service design, co-design, and project management. She ensures the magnitude of change management and cultural embeddedness of any project is at the forefront of her expertise. Therese also serves as non-executive director for multiple boards in the not-for-profit sector to ensure that she gives back to the communities she aims to serve.

Originally from New Zealand, Katherine migrated to Australia with her family as an adolescent and has built an impressive career leading people and culture teams across multiple sectors including health, disability, aged, migrant resources and settlement services. Katherine’s knowledge and capability for building high-performing teams are second to none. Her focus on leadership capability, empowered team culture, meaningful professional development, talent acquisition and retention shows her commitment to sustainable and inclusive policy and practice.

Katherine also has the distinction of being our subject matter expert on all things people and culture including Industrial Relations. Katherine provides invaluable insights to every project we undertake to ensure that we deliver the right outcomes for the whole team.

In the diversity, equity and inclusion space, the difference between tokenism and authentic culturally embedded behaviour and values are effective change management. Karen is an expert in this area and has worked for specialist consulting firms internationally and delivered complex projects in a variety of sectors. Having partnered with state and federal governments, financial services organisations, telecoms, multi-national charities, FMCG sectors and niche small businesses in Australia, UK, Europe and the US, Karen has experienced change challenges at every stage of a project or program lifecycle. She has an extraordinary ability to rapidly assess the health of change initiatives to deliver a responsive, right-fit approach. Bringing your team along for the journey and underpinning the ‘why’ to everything you do is the magic that Karen performs.

Ankush is a senior practicing allied health professional and clinical lead, Ankush has experience in community health, indigenous health, disability services including neurorehabilitation, and supporting the ageing community. He has lived the journey of what it means to be a migrant in the Australian landscape and has witnessed the do’s and don’ts of diversity and inclusion in practice. Ankush champions the client's voice and is our subject matter expert on clinical governance; a valuable commodity in this post-pandemic world. Ankush ensures our clients who require a clinical lens are supported in an everchanging and complex environment.