Vicki Carolan

Vicki is an experienced and passionate individual with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing strategic workforce and talent management solutions for large corporate clients. She has proven experience in managing local and global programs to assist clients in achieving their desired talent strategy and gain greater access to top talent.

Chris Thuell

Chris Thuell is the Director of Risk & Compliance, Asia-Pacific at CXC, where he brings over 15 years of experience designing and implementing risk and compliance programs in the contingent workforce and HR services sector. At CXC, Chris leads a regional team focused on ensuring operational and contractual compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements, while…

Kylie Jurukov

20 years’ experience as a customer – centric professional across industries including Commercial, Banking and Finance and in the Public Sector, Kylie’s passion is delivery of programs and projects within the Contingent Workforce Management industry. As the proud Contingent Program Manager at Optus leading a team striving to deliver excellence, Kylie has dedicated over 7…

Lauren Anderson

Lauren Anderson’s career has followed curiosity more than a straight line, across roles and industries, which means she’s very comfortable asking “why do we do it this way?” She’s currently asking that question in recruitment. As Indeed & Glassdoor’s Senior Talent Strategy Advisor in Australia, her work sits somewhere between research, strategy, and storytelling, turning…

Richard Barnett

Richard leads Hays’ MSP service offering in ANZ, covering all areas of contingent workforce management. Along with Hays’ RPO offering for permanent talent, we provide a suite of services to support Enterprise clients on either a project basis, or as a long-term recruitment outsource partner. All our MSP and RPO programs utilise a range of…

Kanella Salapatas

Kanella currently holds the position of Global Head of People Data & Analytics at QBE Insurance. Kanella has successfully led global teams in providing valuable insights through data, establishing global reporting solutions, championing the exploration and embedment of advanced analytics techniques whilst ensuring the prioritisation and continued focus on the importance of data governance and…

Pea Lord-Doyle

Pea leads the Global Talent Function at Immutable, responsible for Talent Brand, Talent Intelligence and Talent Acquisition, and has worked in TA & People leadership roles in the UK, Germany, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Colombia, South Korea and Australia, recruited globally for 15 years across Tech, Senior Leadership, GTM and Ops.  She is on the…

Sarah Abbott

Sarah Abbott is a seasoned inclusion and diversity leader working in this field across the manufacturing, education, finance and IT industries in Australia and the USA for 20 years. She is currently the Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leader at Lion where Sarah leads the diversity and inclusion portfolio, with a specific focus on inclusion…

Dr Samone McCurdy

Samone is an experienced gender equality strategist, researcher and change management professional with expertise in gender equality programming, strategy and gender attuned leadership capability development. Samone has published research and analysis on a range of gendered workplace drivers including paid parental leave, flexible work practices and gendered workplace harm such as sexual harassment and workplace…