David is a leading organisational and coaching psychologist with over thirty years of professional experience. He helps people to create better lives and careers for themselves. His long held motivation has been to help people and to do good. His clients develop insights into their key strengths and passions and then align these to improve their leadership and executive performance whilst leading a happier, more successful and fulfilling life.

In one client’s words “he meets you where you are, then takes you where you need to go”.

He also consults to organisations on leadership, change, teams and resilience.

Hayden Fricke is the founder and Managing Director for Steople, a global consulting business operating across Australia, New Zealand and USA. Steople focusses on driving long-term positive behaviour change for individuals, teams and organisations and delivers a very broad range of services across the Organisational Development area. On the COP committee my role is focussed specifically on running a project to Enhance the Reputation of Organisational Psychologists across Australia. I’m extremely passionate about this project and understand it will take at least a 3-year focus and beyond to achieve successes. Beyond running Steople, I am an avid sportsperson, regularly running, swimming, bike riding, working out, surfing and playing tennis. I’m a very proud father of 3 incredible children who are in their late teenage years.

Dr Timothy Colin Bednall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and Marketing at Swinburne University. He previously worked at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. He has also worked in industry for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service and Chandler Macleod. Dr Bednall is the National Chair of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists. His broad research area is employee learning and innovation, and charitable behaviour.

As the CEO and Founder of Henricks Consulting, the Helping Hands Program and Water Works Program, Matt's passion is helping companies change the way that employees engage with their work. Matt is an expert in the field of Organisational Change and has run successful consultancy business since 2006. He is a registered and endorsed Organisational Psychologist and author of the book "The Inspired Workplace: Organisational wisdom from the most unlikely of sources." His PhD investigated employee attitudes toward change, the malleability of those attitudes, and their relationship with transformational leadership. Matt is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, where he is working on two research projects investigating Adaptive Performance and Employee Attitudes Toward Change.

For further information see Matt’s Linkedin Profile here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-matthew-henricks-aa967a2/

Diya is an experienced organisational psychologist with a strong consulting background in leadership, culture, organisational reviews, psychological risk prevention and strategic wellbeing. Her longstanding experience with public sector clients eventually led to her joining the Victorian Public Service in 2017 where she led the development and implementation of landmark state-wide strategies that targeted wide-ranging health, wellbeing and safety reforms within the education sector. In her current role as Organisational Wellbeing Manager within a public sector law firm, Diya works with senior leaders to advise them on managing the organisation's risk profile and develops systemic, fit-for-purpose workplace interventions that generate positive shifts in culture, wellbeing and sustainable performance.
She's delighted to be back on the Committee in the Social Impact Director role, combining her passion for the profession and public policy advocacy to improve wellbeing and inclusion

Angela is currently Organisational Development Manager at Advanced Plastic Recycling - an organisation that manufactures products from recycled plastic and wood. She currently has a focus on strategy development and organisational growth. Prior to this, Angela worked as a Consultant for a number of years and has experience in a broad range of industries.

Provisional Psychologist currently studying the Master of Organisational Psychology at Macquarie University.

I am also a sessional tutor for the Department of Psychology, and Mathematics and Statistics at Macquarie.

Keen interest in leadership, teams, culture and big data

I previously worked in Defence, Health and Revenue Collection. I am semi-retired and spend my time working with others in an analytics shed to explore ideas and to develop innovative products and services to assist with analysis and decision making. One of the shed’s current focal areas is deception and the detection of insider threats in organizations. My interests include analytics, use of digital assessments to measure human capabilities, organizational learning, organizational decision making, and innovation and disruptive change. My specialist skill is digital profiling -i.e. using a combination of machine learning and human judgment to profile people of interest such as fraudsters, security threats, dangerous drivers, captains of industry and political leaders.

I previously worked in Defence, Health and Revenue Collection. I am semi-retired and spend my time working with others in an analytics shed to explore ideas and to develop innovative products and services to assist with analysis and decision making. One of the shed’s current focal areas is deception and the detection of insider threats in organizations. My interests include analytics, use of digital assessments to measure human capabilities, organizational learning, organizational decision making, and innovation and disruptive change. My specialist skill is digital profiling -i.e. using a combination of machine learning and human judgment to profile people of interest such as fraudsters, security threats, dangerous drivers, captains of industry and political leaders.

I am a seasoned organisational development practitioner turned academic. I have a multi-disciplinary background in organisational psychology, information systems and chemical engineering. I am passionate about the profession of Organisational Psychology and the difference we can make in the world of work. My PhD focused on corporate governance and organisational change and I am an experienced educator at undergrad, Masters and Exec Ed levels in HR and Organisational Change. I am currently researching the workforce issues in the transition to sustainable infrastructure. My industry experience includes mining, chemicals, professional services, engineering projects, information technology, media and higher education

Angela is currently Organisational Development Manager at Advanced Plastic Recycling - an organisation that manufactures products from recycled plastic and wood. She currently has a focus on strategy development and organisational growth. Prior to this, Angela worked as a Consultant for a number of years and has experience in a broad range of industries.

As a provider of integrative, systemic solutions for individuals, teams and organisations, my professional practice focuses on high impact individual and team coaching and development solutions to board level in Australasia & internationally. Consultancy for strategic design & implementation of corporate coaching and mentoring programmes from c-suite to shop floor is a specific area of expertise. From 2017 to 2020, I served as a Judge for the Workplace Excellence Awards in the areas of workplace wellbeing & performance, emerging directions, coaching & leadership.