Louisa is a senior leader with over 20 years experience in consulting, program and change management across Australia and New Zealand, working with both business and government. She holds certifications in a range of change methodologies and specialises in lean change.
Known for her passion for co-creation, workshop facilitation, and teamwork, Louisa will actively support Australian state chapters and collaborate globally as country co-lead to enhance the Change Management Institute’s value for members.
Ken is a seasoned change management practitioner with over 15 years of experience across diverse industries and countries in both public and private sectors.
He specializes in driving transformation that is not only strategic but also practical, ensuring change is effectively implemented and sustained at all levels of an organization.
Charlotte is a transformational leader with over 25 years of experience in project management, change management and strategy, mainly in the insurance and healthcare industries. She has successfully designed and implemented solutions that enhance organizational capability, create high-performing sustainable organizations that achieve strategic and operational goals.
Charlotte has worked in France, Canada and the United-States and holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) and Prosci certifications.
Jakub is a change and transformation professional with over a decade of experience across multiple industries and countries . He focuses on aligning people, processes, and technology to build a sustainable future.
Jakub builds internal change capabilities and supports sustainable change. As the founder of the Czech Chapter of the Change Management Institute, Jakub is committed to supporting the growth of the profession locally and globally.
Thérèse is a senior change management professional with over 25 years’ cross-industry experience leading teams and delivering successful transformations across Ireland, UK, and Europe.
Since setting up her own business in 2014, she has worked with companies across multiple sectors to help them develop their people to deliver significant business change.
Sharon is an experienced Change Manager with over 15 years of experience in change programmes across both the public and private sector. She has extensive experience in leading technology change, embedding organisational culture change, and developing new ways of working.
As a practitioner, Sharon is passionate about enabling impacted employee focused change, building change leader capability and improving organisational change agility.
Mandy is an award‑winning and experienced change leader with a strong track record across central government and the wider public sector. She is dedicated to strengthening organisational change capability and advancing the maturity and visibility of change management as a recognised profession.
In her role as Head of the Cross‑Government Change Management Community of Practice, Mandy has driven capability-building across departments, embedding best practice and championing the value of structured, people‑centred change approaches to improve outcomes across the public sector.
Katja has been working in the change space for 20 plus years, supporting Leaders and employees to embrace change. She has worked in aviation for many years, as well as utilities and more recently financial regulation.
Katja is passionate about developing effective, happy teams and driving change capability in organisations. She is a Change Management Accredited Change Professional, Prosci practitioner and certified Change Management Professional.
Melissa is the Regional Chief of Human Resources for the Northeast Region of the National Park Service.
She is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Melissa holds a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and Systems Engineering. Melissa also holds a Master of Science in Human Resources, as well as a Master of Business Administration and is currently pursuing her PhD in Communications.

Susan is a senior change manager with over 25 years of experience. She holds Prosci Practitioner, APMG International Practitioner and AIM certificates in change management. Coming from a background in project and program management, Susan holds qualifications in those disciplines, too.
Susan often works in multidisciplinary teams tasked to strategically plan and deliver large-scale, complex transformation programs. She specializes in regulatory reform, digital transformation, and post-merger integration programs.Â

Having worn many hats in her career including Business Analyst Manager, Product Owner and Coach, the common thread for Donna has always been enabling and creating change.
An experienced change practice leader and executor of large-scale change of all varieties, Donna has particular experience in taking a design-thinking and lean change approach.
Donna firmly believes that building change skills in all roles across all parts of an organisation is invaluable.Â

Ken is a seasoned change management practitioner with over 15 years of experience across diverse industries and countries in both public and private sectors.Â
He specializes in driving transformation that is not only strategic but also practical, ensuring change is effectively implemented and sustained at all levels of an organization.

Jakub is a change and transformation professional with over a decade of experience across multiple industries and countries . He focuses on aligning people, processes, and technology to build a sustainable future.
Jakub builds internal change capabilities and supports sustainable change. As the founder of the Czech Chapter of the Change Management Institute, Jakub is committed to supporting the growth of the profession locally and globally.


Thérèse is a senior change management professional with over 25 years’ cross-industry experience leading teams and delivering successful transformations across Ireland, UK, and Europe.
Since setting up her own business in 2014, she has worked with companies across multiple sectors to help them develop their people to deliver significant business change. Â

Lydia is a Change Management Institute, Accredited Change Professional – Master Level, Certified Change Management Professionalâ„¢ (ACMP) and Prosci practitioner.Â
In New Zealand Lydia is an assessor for The Treasury NZ – Organisational Change Management component of the Investor Confidence Rating. Lydia has been consulting in change for nearly two decades. She helps organisations and executives with strategic enterprise-wide change thinking.Â

Sharon is an experienced Change Manager with over 15 years of experience in change programmes across both the public and private sector. She has extensive experience in leading technology change, embedding organisational culture change, and developing new ways of working.
As a practitioner, Sharon is passionate about enabling impacted employee focused change, building change leader capability and improving organisational change agility.

Soraya is a senior leader who has worked in the aviation, health care, IT and education markets in the UK, EMEA and Asia. Highly experienced in leadership and team development, learning, corporate communications, and change she works to create healthy and high performing human systems.
Soraya gained her certificate in Organisation Development from the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioural Science, holds an
EMCC accredited Coach-Mentoring qualification and is an advanced practitioner in People Centred Implementation.Â


Melissa is the Regional Chief of Human Resources for the Northeast Region of the National Park Service.
She is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Melissa holds a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and Systems Engineering. Melissa also holds a Master of Science in Human Resources, as well as a Master of Business Administration and is currently pursuing her PhD in Communications.
