Our Team
Charan Teja Valluru
Human Performance Engineer | Melbourne | Email
Charan is currently a candidate for Ph.D. at Griffith University’s Safety Science Innovation Lab, where, he is working on understanding subcontractor related safety issues in high-risk industries in Australia. He holds a Master of Science in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering from the University of Missouri and a Bachelor in mechanical engineering from India. He has been part of research projects focusing on human factors and submitted a thesis on manufacturing industry employees’ safety perspectives.
David Porteous
Senior Consultant I Sydney I Email
David has a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science with honours. He is an experienced Health and Safety Manager with substantial experience in the heavy manufacturing industry in both OHS and line management roles. David build's innovative safety systems that enable 'freedom within the framework' and has a wealth of experience across all aspects of contractor management.
Divyangini Lal
Marketing Solutions Specialist | Melbourne | Email
Divyangini completed a Master of Business - Risk Management at Monash University where she earned a spot on the Dean’s Commendation List for academic excellence. She has previously completed a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a specialisation in Marketing. She uses her Marketing expertise and analytical bent to support the growing needs of our business and of our clients.
Eduarda Cuadros Márquez
Enterprise Solutions Enabler | Melbourne | Email
Eduarda completed a Bachelor of Business at Monash University, with specialisation in management practices and marketing & Communications. She has experience in creative marketing, data analysis and digital marketing. Eduarda has an extensive background in volunteering and considers herself an advocate for the environment, diversity and ethical practices.
Hendrik Lourens
Senior Consultant I Sydney I Email
Hendrik has extensive experience in leadership positions within the manufacturing sector as well as in consulting in mining and manufacturing. He has turned many declining businesses around by quickly shifting productivity and profitability performance. The Theory of Constraints and Complexity Theory provides him with a framework to identify and manage leverage points and to unshackle frontline employees and middle management from the prevailing best practice paradigms. His strengths lie in improving quality and productivity and increasing leadership effectiveness. Hendrik's experience is underpinned by a Masters in Polymer Science, Honours in Chemistry, an MBA and certification in the Theory of Constraints.
Jason Thain
Senior Consultant I Townsville I Email
Jason provides a diverse background in leadership, management, and training with dynamic skills ranging from a military background to mining safety and supervision. His specialties span leadership training and infield coaching, superintendent and supervisor skills development, critical risk review and program design, crisis management development including training and risk management.
With a focus on safety and risk performance, Jason assists organisations in implementing a culture of workplace safety and Critical Risk management. His passion in workplace safety stems from firsthand experience with witnessing and responding to a heavy industry workplace fatality. From this moment on, he worked to develop an in depth knowledge of Critical Risk and effective leadership in the industry in order to aid organisations in optimizing their processes and preventing this type of accident from happening again.
Lucy Moxon
Service Delivery Coordinator | Brisbane | Email
Prior to joining Art of Work, Lucy spent seven years working in education support at Brisbane Boys’ College. She has also more than a decade of experience in graphic design in a variety of business settings including the Department of Communities (Queensland Government), QML Pathology and UQ Sport.
Lucy has studied extensively within the discipline of health, has a passion for sociology and a lived experience of mental illness. All of which has inspired her to look for ways to address the systemic causes of a problem rather than applying a band-aid after the fact, which closely aligns with the values embodied by Art of Work.
Marion Kiely
Senior Consultant | Ireland | Email
Marion Kiely is a Senior Consultant at Art of Work where she helps clients navigate complex safety challenges and become more resilient. She adopts a progressive, straight-talking approach, and is an advocate of anthro-complexity and adaptive safety methodology.
She has a particular interest in people in the system and has amassed much knowledge and experience in how change can be introduced and sustained within organisations. She has an aversion to safety approaches which focus on 'fixing the employee' and is much more interested in looking at what elements of the system are setting employees up for failure. She then works with the organisation to explore their workplace ecosystem, make sense of it, and take action based on data from the discovery and sense-making activities undertaken.
Pete Jensen
Senior Consultant | Melbourne | Email
Pete is an industry leader with more than twenty years’ experience delivering a variety of programs, including Leadership Development, Cultural Transformation, and Behavioural Safety Leadership programs, across the Asia Pacific region. A keynote speaker for such organisations as The Executive Connection, The CEO Institute, and Rotary International, he brings the skills, knowledge, expertise, and experience to help organisations turn potential risk and damage into connection, productivity and performance.
Pete is a published author and is passionate about helping organisations to build workplace cultures that are psychologically safe, fit, and thriving. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Sydney Business School at the University of Wollongong, and was an Associate Member of the ANZ Breakout Delivery Team, recognised as a best practice case by Harvard Business School.
Rebecca Knott
Junior Marketing Coordinator | Melbourne | Email
Rebecca recently completed her Bachelor of Commerce, specialising in Marketing, at Monash University. Prior to joining Art of Work, Rebecca spent nine months living and studying in Europe where she completed her final semester of university.
She has gained previous marketing experience interning at a digital agency, as well as volunteering her social media skills for Alex Makes Meals, a not for profit organisation. She is a strong advocate for workplace inclusivity and productivity, which led to her ambition to join Art of Work. She uses her creative thinking coupled with her analytical skills to accelerate Art of Work's marketing efforts.
Rod Cameron
Senior Consultant | Brisbane | Email
Rod is a senior construction and mining resources industry professional, with 25 years’ experience in environmental and safety management systems, project approvals, project development and operational experience across industries (construction, mining and services) and regions.
Rod has worked over 20 years in both operational and corporate roles for BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Peabody Energy and Thiess. During his time at Thiess, his experience included involvement and corporate oversight of some of Australia’s largest construction projects, including the Airport Link Tunnel in Brisbane and the Victorian Desalination Plant. Rod has been responsible for implementing group wide integrated HSE management systems across national and international operations. He has held corporate accountability for environmental governance and board reporting for ASX listed entities and on projects throughout Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, India, Canada and Africa.
Rod combines a unique blend of management, operational experience and project management skills.
Sophia Newton
Interpreter of Practice |Melbourne |Email
Sophia is a recent graduate from Deakin University, holding a Bachelor of Biomedical Science. Her education and professional background have provided her with a diverse skill set, with experience working in experimental and pathology laboratories as well as retail management. Safety and risk management is at the core of all laboratory work, so she is passionate about enabling genuine intuitive safety in the workplace and reducing the culture of bureaucracy.
Sue Ieraci
Senior Consultant | Sydney | Email
Sue Ieraci is a specialist Emergency Physician who spent 35 years working in public hospitals before taking up a new role in Telemedicine. As well as her clinical role, Sue has been involved in Emergency Department management as well as health system consultancy, policy-making roles and medical regulation. Over the years, she has been asked to review Emergency Departments across the country, giving advice on culture and process improvement and holding problem-solving workshops to assist colleagues in structuring and implementing positive change.
Since leaving her long-term hospital role, Sue has focussed on understanding the multiple factors that contribute to poor workplace culture, including risk aversion and blame-shifting. She sees her engagement with the principles and talent of Art of Work as a pathway to improving the complex set of factors that lead to frustration and burnout, both in Health Services and throughout the world of work.
Zinta Satins
Chief Innovator |Brisbane | Email
Zinta was first attracted to safety in the 90s when working as a chemist in the steel industry. This lead to her taking on a number of occupational roles including that of hygienist. After over a decade she left the steel industry to work as an HSE professional and over the years gained practical experience in construction, engineering, mining and hospitality in both regional and corporate roles. Zinta has always loved safety but no more so than when she was introduced to the concepts of safety differently almost 10 years ago at SKM. She has never looked back.