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Our team

Passionate about our vision to create a disability confident Australia, our people are flexible, collaborative, open minded and focused on results.

We explore new ways of doing things and are committed to continuous learning and improvement in order to maximise our impact.

We know that working in partnership with organisations we can make a difference to people with disability accessing business as customers, employees and stakeholders.

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Leadership team

Corene Strauss headshot

Corene Strauss

Chief Executive Officer

Rachael is a woman with short hair. She is smiling.

Rachael Kennedy

Chief Operating Officer

Amber is a woman with short blonde hair. She is wearing a purple, long-sleeve top.

Amber O'Shea

Head of Strategy

Emma is a woman with shoulder-length brown hair, short bangs and reading glasses. She is wearing a black, long-sleeve top and a silver necklace.

Emma Henningsen

Head of Consultancy and Acting Head of Member Services

Sharon, a woman with long black hair. She is wearing glasses, earrings and a blue top. She is smiling.

Sharon Kumar

Head of Programs

Emily, a woman with short blonde hair. She is smiling.

Emily Matthews

Head of Member Services (Maternity leave)

Katie, a woman with long hair, is wearing a white dress and glasses. She is smiling.

Katie Wilson

Head of Marketing and Communications

Our expert staff

Lara is a woman with long, brown and wavy hair. She is wearing a yellow overshirt, yellow hoop earrings and black dress.

Lara Bernardo

Disability Confident Recruiter Lead

Tom, is wearing a blazer with a button up shirt. He is smiling.

Tom Bevan

Dignified Access Lead

Jazmyn is a woman with short hair. She is wearing a pink dress. She is smiling.

Jazmyn Brennan

Disability Consultant - Career Pathways Pilot

Pauline, a woman with short brown hair is wearing a dotted dress. She is smiling.

Pauline Brown

Administration Coordinator

Hayley is a woman with short hair. She is wearing a black dress. She is smiling.

Hayley Brooks

Customer and Employee Experience Lead

Regine is a woman with long brown hair. and is wearing a brown dress.

Regine Pimentel

Marketing Coordinator

Brooke, a woman, is wearing a blazer and a top. She is smiling.

Brooke Carter

Program Coordinator

Sarah, a woman, is wearing glasses, hoop earrings and a floral dress. She is smiling.

Sarah Driscoll

Relationship Manager

Marie is a woman with short dark hair. She is wearing a red blazer, navy blue top and gold necklace.

Marie Fox

Delivery Manager - Employing 100

Gillian is a woman with blonde hair. She is smiling.

Gillian Gatt

Delivery Manager

Bianca, a woman with long hair is smiling.

Bianca Georgakopoulos

Member Liaison

Rudy is a man. He has short black hair and is wearing a light blazer, white collared shirt and blue tie.

Rudy Haruta

Programs Lead - Stepping Into

A Caucasian woman wearing glasses and a black long sleeve top. She has medium light brown hair and is smiling at the camera.

Emma Hamilton

Disability Consultant

Katherine is a woman with short dark hair and reading glasses. She is wearing a blue long-sleeve top.

Katherine Havas

Project Liaison - Career Pathways Pilot

A Caucasian male with short brown hair and blue button up shirt, smiling at the camera.

Nicholas Hoskins

Associate Relationship Manager

Arpita. a woman, has short hair. She is smiling.

Arpita Jauhari

Relationship Manager

Tia, a woman is wearing a top and a blazer. She has shoulder length hair. She is smiling.

Tia Kwan

Program Lead – PACE mentoring program

Rosie, a woman is wearing a jumper. She is smiling.

Rosie Lane

Access and Inclusion Index Lead

Rida is a woman with short black hair. She is wearing glasses, a black blazer and white top. She is smiling.

Rida Leung

Executive Assistant

Steph, a woman, is wearing a black blazer and shirt. She is smiling.

Stephanie Littlewood

Member Development Manager (Maternity leave)

Mia has long wavy hair. She is wearing a black top. She is smiling.

Mia Loncar

Associate Relationship Manager

A woman with medium length hair, reading glasses and a blue top. She is smiling at the camera.

Ryllonna Luedey

Relationship Manager

Peta, a woman with short hair is wearing a red top. She is smiling.

Peta Magick

Project Manager

Catherine, a woman with short hair is wearing a purple top. She is smiling.

Dr. Catherine Maitland

Research Lead

Rachel, a woman with short hair is wearing a red blazer and black top. She is smiling.

Rachel Matheson

Relationship Manager

Nathan, a man, with short hair and beard. He is smiling.

Nathan Mikhael

Digital Officer

Laura is a woman with long brown hair. She is wearing a brown shirt and black blazer. She is smiling.

Laura Mocza

Program Coordinator

Lydia is a woman with long dark hair and reading glasses. She is wearing a dark red dress.

Lydia Moore

Disability Consultant - Career Pathways Pilot

Mirabel, a woman with blonde hair, is wearing a checkered dress. She is smiling.

Mirabel Mowat Smith

Acting Membership Development Manager

Luisina, is a woman with brown hair. She is wearing a white button shirt with stripes. She is smiling.

Luisina Olivares

Program Coordinator

Liisa is a woman with shoulder-length brown hair. She is smiling with her arms crossed and wearing a black shirt and gold necklace.

Liisa Olsson

Mentor Lead

Ari is a man with short white hair. He is wearing a black polo.

Ari Perala

Business Analyst

Clara is a woman with long dark hair. She is wearing a red blouse and black necklace.

Clara Pirani

Media and Policy Manager

Nerida, woman with short dark hair and reading glasses. She is wearing a printed dress, green necklace and disability sunflower lanyard.

Nerida Sleaman

Project Manager – Employing 100

Mackenzie is a man with short hair. He is wearing glasses, a brown blazer and a floral button up shirt. He is smiling.

Mackenzie Small

Relationship Manager

Danielle Smyth

Relationship Manager

Chris is a man with reading glasses, medium-length hair and facial hair. He is wearing a black blazer, navy blue sweater and patterned collared shirt.

Christopher Strickland

Training Lead

Alyson, a woman with short blonde hair is wearing a black top and glasses. She is smiling.

Alyson Todd

Campaign Manager

Dragan, a man with short hair and a beard. He is wearing a green polo. He is smiling.

Dragan Tomic

Directing Change Project Officer

David is a male smiling at the camera. He has short black hair styled back and is wearing black reading glasses. He is wearing a blue blazer and white button shirt.

David Tran

Relationship Manager

Emilie, a woman, is wearing a blue top. She is smiling.

Emilie Van Os-Schmitt

Content Creator/Designer

Kylie is a woman with orange shoulder-length hair and reading glasses. She is wearing a colourful blouse.

Kylie Vitnell

Accounts Administrator

Phillip Ward is a woman with short blonde hair. She is wearing a blue button shirt. She is smiling.

Phillipa Ward

Accountant

Sarah is a woman with short hair. She is smiling.

Sarah Wojciechowski

Disability Consultant - Career Pathways Pilot

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