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Jonathon Woolfrey FCPHR

AHRI Podcast Host,
AHRI

Jonathon Woolfrey is an experienced HR executive and non-executive director, with a strong commitment to advancing evidence-based practice in human resources. He holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and two master’s degrees and is a passionate advocate for professional Certification within the HR profession.

Jonathon has held senior HR roles across state and Commonwealth governments, large not-for-profit organisations and private enterprise. He has also lectured in HR and employment relations at a postgraduate level for several years. He is currently Managing Partner at talenting, and serves as a Commissioner and non-executive director for Catholic Education WA Limited.

Jonathon has served as an AHRI State Councillor in Western Australia since 2019, including as WA State President from 2020 to 2026. He was appointed to the AHRI Board as a State Director from 2021 to 2026 and during that time Chaired the AHRI ER/IR National Advisory Panel. Commencing in 2026, Jonathon is now the host of AHRI’s ERIR Unpacked podcast.

Charles Power

Partner,
Holding Redlich

Michaela White CPHR

ER/IR Manager,
Cleanaway Waste Management

Michaela White is a passionate and business focused industrial relations/employee relations specialist and a self-confessed “IR nerd” who believes effective leadership, transparency and employee engagement are the key to successful employee and industrial relations outcomes.

Currently an industrial relations manager at Cleanaway Waste Management, Australia’s largest, publicly listed waste management company with over 6,000 employees in more than 250 locations, she has extensive experience as an HR generalist and industrial relations specialist across a range of public, private and not for profit organisations.

Michaela is committed to supporting the next generation of HR professionals through coaching and mentoring and is an active member of AHRI’s ER/IR Advisory panel and the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria.

Sandy Hutchison CAHRI

Founder & CEO,
Career Money Life

Sandy Hutchison is the Founder and CEO of Career Money Life, an Australian HR technology platform dedicated to supporting people through life’s key transitions. She brings more than three decades of experience spanning senior HR leadership at Marsh & McLennan, where she received the company’s CEO Award for her work as Asia Pacific HR Director, and consulting partnership at Mercer, through to 13 years building a business grounded in the belief that every person deserves to be treated with dignity, choice, and care, especially in their most vulnerable moments.

Before her corporate career, Sandy served the Government of Canada on the privatisation of the Canadian Air Navigation System, one of the most significant public sector transformations in Canadian history. That work earned her the Minister’s Medal, the highest honour a Canadian public servant can receive.

Career Money Life is an AI-enabled employee experience platform that blends technology, choice, and care to deliver personalised programs across career transition, outplacement, parental leave, retirement coaching, EAP, and candidate care. Its unique Future Fit and Marketplace Credit model gives employees genuine choice and control over their transition journey, while providing HR teams with clear, data-informed reporting and confidence in every program delivered. A WeConnect-certified, women-owned business, Career Money Life partners with leading organisations including Virgin Australia, EY, South East Water, and Boeing. The business has been recognised as one of Smart Company’s Top 50 SME Workplaces and is a recipient of the Career Development Association of Australia’s Award for Excellence in Service.

Sandy holds a Master of Public Policy and Administration from Concordia University, the CAHRI credential from the Australian HR Institute, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is a Founding Board Director of the Australian Gender Equality Council and a published contributor to business management education.

Sandy’s work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and HR practice, with particular expertise in supporting organisations to manage workforce transitions with empathy, psychological safety, and genuine care for the people involved.

Josephine Hart

Workplace Relations Lawyer and IR Consultant

Josephine Hart is a Workplace Relations Lawyer and self-confessed people-nerd with over a decade of in-house experience specialising in industrial relations, compliance, workforce mobilisation and organisational growth. A strategic thinker and commercially savvy negotiator, she is passionate about the future of work, blending legal expertise with leadership to build strong cultures and drive organisational performance.

Matt Connell FCPHR

General Manager People & Culture
AHRI

Matt Connell is the General Manager, People & Culture of the Australian HR Institute. Matt has worked in senior HR/People Culture roles in various values-based industries. He has an MBA majoring in Strategic HR Management and has worked in several start-ups and merging organisations and has developed and implemented people & culture functions leading highly engaged teams to manage complex IR/ER issues in challenging industries and environments. He is an AHRI Fellow Certified HR Practitioner.

Matt is a passionate advocate for the HR industry and about developing constructive leadership capabilities in others so they may better empower, engage and enhance performance in their own team members.

Before stepping into an executive role with AHRI, Matt held various volunteer positions, including the Victorian state councillor and was the Victorian State President from 2019 – 2025. He joined AHRI’s Board as a State Director in 2022, was a member of AHRI’s Finance, Audit, and Risk Management Committee (FARM) and Chair of the National Certifications Council (NCC) during his time on AHRI’s Board.

Jennifer Porter MAHRI

Director,
Worklogic

Jennifer is Human Resources practitioner and Employment Lawyer who works with her clients to improve workplace culture and develop leadership capability. She is passionate about partnering with clients to diagnose and develop strategies to resolve complex people issues

Danielle Flint

Partner,
HWLE, Lawyers

Danielle Flint is a Partner in HWLE Lawyers’ Workplace Relations and Safety team in Perth, with more than 20 years’ experience advising employers across multiple industries including construction, resources, transport, education, retail and health.

Danielle provides commercial, strategic advice across all aspects of the employment relationship. She has particular expertise in complex workplace investigations and safety matters, including whistleblower investigations, managing sensitive employee issues, ill and injured employees, major safety incidents and engagement with work health and safety regulators.

Danielle also advises on workplace disputes, business transfers, executive remuneration, employment-related taxation and superannuation issues, and represents clients in employment litigation. Her practical approach focuses on helping organisations navigate legal risk, make confident decisions and achieve effective workplace outcomes.

Giacomo Giorgi

Partner,
Mallesons

Giacomo Giorgi is an employment and industrial relations specialist helping clients navigate complex and strategic industrial disputes, complex and contentious bargaining matters and other industrial relations issues, employment and post-employment claims and disputes, sensitive workplace investigations and statutory (and other) employment obligations and risks.

Giacomo has extensive experience in the energy and resources sector, throughout the whole project lifecycle: from initial workforce strategy and contractor engagement through construction, commissioning and operation. Giacomo also regularly works closely with manufacturers, retailers, hospitality providers, local governments, public bodies, and universities.

Elisa Kelly

Workplace Relations Advisor,
Meerkin & Apel Solicitors

Elisa is a Workplace Relations Advisor with Meerkin & Apel, a long established boutique law firm practising in the areas of commercial law, litigation, family law, banking & finance, property, employment law and entertainment law.

The Meerkin & Apel Workplace Relations Team Elisa is a member of provides human resources and industrial relations advice mainly to local government and statutory authorities, assisting many of them with their enterprise agreement negotiations, often sitting at the bargaining table. Prior to commencing with the Firm, Elisa worked in HR for 15 years in Local Government and before that was employed by the Victorian Government as a Solicitor with the Industrial Relations Division of the Department of State Development.

Anthony Massaro

Principal,
Russell Kennedy Lawyers

Anthony is a Partner at Russell Kennedy. He has been practising in workplace relations, employment and safety team for nearly 25 years. Anthony works with a broad range of public and private sector clients in relation to their industrial matters and enterprise bargaining, from providing support in drafting and negotiation, all the way through to assistance with the lodgement and pre-lodgement process. His experience also includes appearing at the Fair Work Commission in relation to industrial action, and in relation to applications for supported bargaining authorisations.

Carly Rees

Head of Industrial Relations,
St John WA

Carly Rees is a strategic industrial and employee relations professional known for bringing clarity, pragmatism and sound judgement to complex workplace issues. As Head of Industrial Relations at St John Ambulance Western Australia, she leads a broad portfolio spanning enterprise bargaining, union engagement, workplace disputes, compliance, organisational change and team leadership. She leads complex industrial relations matters and supports leaders to navigate workforce risk while maintaining constructive and effective workplace relationships.

With more than 15 years’ experience across emergency services, construction, mining, energy and major projects, Carly has worked with workforces and stakeholders across multiple Australian jurisdictions. Her experience includes advising senior leaders and boards, negotiating enterprise agreements, managing significant industrial matters, and developing practical workforce strategies that support both organisational performance and positive workplace relationships.

Natacha Razavi

Executive Director People & Culture,
EACH

Natacha Razavi is the Executive Director, People & Technology and a member of the Executive Leadership Team at Each, one of Australia’s leading health and community service organisations.

A highly regarded People & Culture executive with over 20 years experience, Natacha brings extensive experience leading workforce strategy, industrial and employee relations, organisational development, technology-enabled people solutions, and large-scale organisational change within complex and highly regulated environments.

Throughout her career she has partnered closely with Boards, CEOs and executive leaders to build organisational capability, strengthen culture, navigate workforce challenges, and deliver sustainable business outcomes.

Known for her pragmatic and people-centred approach, Natacha has significant expertise in industrial relations, enterprise bargaining, workforce transformation, change management, complex employee relations matters, leadership capability and organisational culture. She is passionate about creating workplaces where people can thrive while ensuring organisations have the capability, systems and leadership required to achieve meaningful outcomes.

Mark Wright MAHRI

Managing Director,
FEFO Consulting

Mark Wright is a trusted risk, health and safety professional committed to preventing harm and enabling high levels of performance. Mark is the Managing Director of FEFO and the Health partners across Australia, New Zealand, North America, UK and Europe. & Safety Index with clients and Mark has strong expertise integrating relevant aspects physical safety, health, wellbeing and employee engagement to create measurable, effective and sustainable outcomes. His career has included work as Non-Executive Director, several senior leadership positions and work over 15 countries across mining, oil & gas, facilities management, construction, and utilities. Mark previously worked with SafeWork NSW as a Prosecutor and with multi national companies such as Lend Lease, and Rio Tinto where he led HSE for major contracts globally. Mark has also led many consulting projects with organisations such as Glencore, JLL, Boral, Ventia, Lockheed Martin, Nine, Puma Energy, Westpac, Woolworths and all layers of government. His team’s success has been recognised with industry awards and publication by Forbes, several professional membership organisation and international industry publications.

Victoria Stamper

Special Counsel,
Squire Patton Boggs

Victoria Stamper is special counsel in the Labour & Employment team and has over 15 years’ experience advising on contentious and non-contentious workplace matters in Australia and England.

Bringing a commercially astute approach to navigating complex and sensitive workplace and safety issues, Victoria has particular experience acting for clients across the healthcare, energy, mining, automotive and construction industries.
Victoria advises senior managers, HR professionals and general counsel in relation to all employment matters from the commencement of employment to the end of employment.

Victoria has represented clients in defence of claims in the Fair Work Commission, Western Australian Industrial Commission, Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA), Equal Opportunity Commission and Australian Human Rights Commission.
Victoria regularly advises clients in relation to contractual issues, including drafting employment contracts, contractor agreements and enterprise agreements.

Victoria advises clients in relation to challenging workplace issues involving, for example, managing sickness absence, performance and misconduct.

Victoria undertakes workplace and safety investigations and provides training to clients. Victoria also provides support on the employment aspects of corporate transactions and provides proactive compliance and due

Aaron McEwan

Chief Psychologist & Futurist,
Being More Human

Aaron McEwan is a psychologist, workplace futurist and former Gartner Vice President with more than 30 years’ experience spanning psychology, HR, workforce strategy and the future of work.

During his time at Gartner, Aaron advised the world’s leading CHROs and senior executives on workforce strategy, organisational effectiveness, employee wellbeing and the impact of emerging technologies of the workforce. His career has also included senior roles in talent and organisational development, executive coaching and career transition, as well as his early work as a Lifeline crisis counsellor and career counsellor with Work Directions Australia.

Aaron has a particular interest in psychosocial safety and good work design. He argues that the next challenge for organisations is not simply identifying and controlling psychosocial hazards, but designing work that actively protects and develops the human capabilities people need to thrive.

That challenge is becoming more urgent as AI transforms how work is performed. Aaron’s work focuses particularly on three protective human capacities — judgment, capability and connection — and what happens when poorly designed technology-enabled work begins to erode them.

Aaron is a Senior Industry Fellow with RMIT’s Centre for Workforce Futures, a Fellow of the Australian HR Institute, and author of the forthcoming The AI Survival Guide, which explores how we can protect our humanity and psychological health while harnessing the benefits of AI.

Belinda Perisic FCPHR

Chief Operating Officer/Director,
Coulter Legal

Belinda is a Director and the Chief Operating Officer at Coulter Legal. With a people-focused and strategic approach to leadership, she is committed to fostering a culture of high performance, engagement and connection, while creating an environment in which people and the firm can thrive.

With extensive leadership experience across a range of industry sectors, Belinda takes a considered and pragmatic approach to developing people and the business. She is a compassionate leader with a strong ability to engage and connect with people, complemented by a keen commercial mindset and a focus on positioning the firm for continued growth and success.

Belinda leads the Executive Services team and is a member of the Coulter Legal Executive and Leadership teams, helping drive the firm’s strategy across people and culture, innovation, continuous improvement and risk management. She is a Fellow and Certified Practitioner of the Australian Human Resources Institute, holds qualifications in Psychology and Industrial Relations, and completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ Company Directors Course in 2025.

Ines Balint

Special Counsel,
Coulter Legal

As Special Counsel at Coulter Legal, Ines specialises in Employment Law and brings practical, real-world insight to every matter. She came to law after nearly a decade in HR roles across multiple industries in Australia and England.

That hands-on experience means she understands the pressures and practical challenges that HR teams and business leaders face every day and knows how to deliver advice that works not just in theory, but in practice. Advising on the full gamut of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, Ines has represented clients in the Fair Work Commission and the Federal Courts.

Clients value Ines’ ability to cut through complexity and provide practical, commercially minded solutions. Whether guiding businesses through sensitive investigations or navigating employee disputes, she combines strategic thinking with a down-to-earth style that puts clients at ease. The result is advice that is clear, confident, and focused on achieving outcomes that protect both people and business.

Michelle Dawson

Managing Principal,
Emplawyer

Michelle Dawson is an Accredited Specialist in Workplace Relations with over 20 years of advisory and litigation experience in all aspects of workplace relations law, including employment, industrial relations, and discrimination.

In 2023 Michelle was awarded with the Lawyer’s Weekly Employment Law Partner of the Year Award and was named as a finalist for the same award in 2025 and 2026.

After more than 25 years in law firms, including in some of Australia’s most well-regarded midtier firms, Michelle established her own firm, Emplawyer, in 2022. Emplawyer is a boutique firm servicing employer clients nationally and now has a carefully curated team of employment lawyers, including 2 renowned Accredited Specialists in the space.

Michelle is also a proud contributor to the law and the legal profession in the employment area, and is a longstanding member of the Law Institute of Victoria Specialisation Scheme Workplace Relations Advisory Committee and a NSW Law Society Employment Law Committee member.

Wally Kluktewicz FAHRI

ER IR Consultant,
WK Keystone Consulting

Wally Kluktewicz is an experienced employee relations and industrial relations professional with an extensive career spanning senior human resources, industrial relations and corporate affairs roles.

Across his career, Wally has held positions including ER/IR Consultant, Group Corporate Affairs & Industrial Relations Manager, Group Human Resources Manager, General Manager of Human Resources and NSW Personnel Manager. His experience includes managing complex employee and industrial relations matters, representing organisations before Fair Work tribunals, and contributing to a range of industry committees and advisory panels.

Wally has a strong academic background, with postgraduate qualifications across business law, strategic public relations, law, environmental law, and labour law and industrial relations.

He is actively involved in the profession through affiliations including AHRI’s ER/IR Advisory Panel, the NSW AHRI ER/IR network, the Law Society of NSW and the National Press Club. Wally has also contributed to a number of community organisations, including Sydney Kids’ Charity, Toronto Sunrise Rotary, Nourished Community Food Hub Toronto and the Children’s Cancer Institute.