Simon Hedt

I didn’t take a straight path into talent. I started out in design and engineering; fields that taught me how to think laterally, ask better questions, and get curious about how things (and people) work. Somewhere along the way, I realised it wasn’t just the systems I loved improving, it was helping people find where…

Pavi Iyer

Pavi Iyer started her career in medicinal chemistry, which taught her early that the most interesting problems sit where science, people and experimental thinking all meet. She found her way into People and Talent, took a detour to co-found a specialty coffee roastery and café in Melbourne where she learnt what running a business actually…

Jody Smith

Jody Smith is a Senior Talent Partner at We are Charlotte and an Experience Designer with a knack for enhancing candidate sourcing, attraction, assessment, and retention through data, insights, and Human-Centered Design thinking. Passionate about career development, Jody also lends expertise as a Career Helper at Career Stuff.

Danielle Lendich

Danielle Lendich has been at the helm of Wendy’s New Zealand for nearly 25 years and has seen a lot of change in the industry over this time. Danielle is recognised as one of the top operators in the Wendy’s Global system, winning numerous awards for innovation, sales growth, best operator and best marketing campaigns.…

Simone Donovan

Most recently performing the role of Talent Manager at PetSure, Simone has worked with a wide range of well known organisations to establish internal Talent Attraction teams largely in the capacity of Head of Talent Attraction herself. In these roles she has successfully built teams, systems and processes from scratch utilising ever evolving data to…