Dec 2025 – Present · 4 mos · Australia · Remote

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Australia

• The Startup People Summit is the playbook event for the startup People pro. Featuring 30+ speakers from across the APAC region, fully virtual, over one epic day, sharing expertise on everything to do with building and scaling a people function.
• Check out the website for more details and to register.

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Australia

• The FNDN Series is a podcast and newsletter exploring how scaling startups build people practices that actually work.
• Each edition goes inside the operating models of modern People teams, covering everything from compensation design, to performance systems, progression, culture and the fundamentals of building a high trust organisation.
• The focus is practical detail, real examples and lessons from operators who have done the work.
• Designed for startup Heads of People who want clearer thinking, stronger systems and people practices that scale with the company.

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Australia

• Building comp practices for startups that want clear, fair and competitive pay.

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs

Mar 2023 – Nov 2023 · 8 mos · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Jan 2023 – Mar 2023 · 2 mos · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• An expanded remit taking on responsibility for both people operations and employee experience of the end-of-end journey that all each professional undertakes in their employment with Oyster.

Nov 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Leading the People Operations function for Oyster:
• Enabled Oysters scale from 200 to 700+ (across 70 countries) within 12 months
• Led establishment and roll-out of compensation philosophy through detailed communication campaign.
• Led team in the construction of a global pay calculator - delivering an ability to benchmark any Oyster role across 140+ countries within minutes.
• Led pay transparency efforts in support of values. This included building our own compensation tool and launch to internal employees. Comprehensive reporting and enablement efforts on understanding philosophy and basis for mechanics of comp benchmarks.
• Development and rollout of Oysters job levelling framework to provide career paths to all and standardise roles and salaries internally and for candidates coming in to the business.
• Delivered implementation and rollout of a performance enablement platform based on a continuous feedback framework, providing an objective capability for progression and internal mobility.
• Led the growth and development of a globally distributed team of People Ops professionals, delivering an Operating Model to dedicate our team specifically towards service and project delivery.

Feb 2021 – Nov 2021 · 9 mos · Greater Brisbane Area

• Responsibility for; Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partnership and Workforce Planning.
• Led national workforce planning, reporting and analysis in line with national capital projects and secondary defence contracts.
• Established and led the annual performance and compensation merit cycle.
• Led team accreditation and adoption of Korn Ferry job evaluation methodology.
• Implemented market dataset in TA benchmarking and merit cycle process. Training talent acquisition, hiring managers and leaders broadly in compensation methodology and uptake.
• Led talent acquisition team in hiring ~250 people over 10 months, as well as key initiatives including the launch of RDA’s referral program.

Dec 2019 – Oct 2020 · 10 mos

• Procured and implemented a global HR system (HiBob), replacing myriad expensive and non-integrative systems. This provided a single system for employee data, leave management, onboarding, performance, analytics and surveys across our global workforce.
• Led development and implementation of a global job levelling framework across four global sites.
• Procured and leveraged market benchmarking data for to enable offer benchmarking. Further utilised this dataset to establish market relativity and in developing and leading SilverRail's first global compensation cycle efforts.

May 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Delivering a people agenda focused on creating a workforce of unrivalled growth in capability across initiatives such as; global job levelling, benefits and remuneration; talent identification and selection; organisational value and behaviours; leadership development; and, day-to-day stakeholder engagement across business and corporate executives.

Mar 2012 – Apr 2017 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Australia

• Mid-Senior People Operations roles across tech, FMCG, legal and professional services industries.