Our Team
We are not career consultants. Each Atelienne consultant has extensive experience in human resources and employee relations, working across multiple industry sectors. We understand the nuances of industries including mining and heavy industry, construction, fast moving consumer goods, healthcare, finance, tertiary education and not-for-profit sector.
We have deep experience and a long history of successful delivery across both Australian and international businesses. We help organisations grow performance, profitability and productivity.
We use our experience to create fresh, innovative ways to manage your people and prepare your organisation for the future.
Sam Bradford
With more than 20 years’ experience, Sam is a senior people and organisational effectiveness adviser who works closely with executive leadership teams to design and deliver people strategies that support performance, growth, and sustainable business outcomes. She has worked with some of Australia’s most recognised organisations, including BHP, Carlton & United Breweries, Foster’s, and Aveo.
Sam has built a strong reputation for operating at executive and C‑suite level, coaching senior leaders and guiding organisations through complex workforce and organisational challenges. Her expertise spans strategic workforce planning, organisational design and transformation, leadership and technical capability development, and the establishment of high‑performing teams and operating models.
Previously, Sam held the role of Head of Workforce Capability and Strategic Sourcing at BHP, where she led enterprise‑wide capability strategy, workforce planning, and strategic sourcing initiatives across large, complex operations. In this role, she worked closely with senior leaders to align workforce capability with long‑term business strategy and operational performance.
As a Strategic HR Consultant, Sam supports organisations to navigate change, optimise leadership and workforce structures, and implement scalable, commercially focused solutions that drive efficiency and long‑term value. She is known for her pragmatic, outcomes‑focused approach and her ability to translate strategy into practical action.
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Licia McGroarty
With more than 20 years’ experience, Licia is a senior employee relations leader, qualified workplace investigator, mediator, and lawyer who works with organisations to navigate complex workforce, cultural, and regulatory challenges. Her experience spans the mining, renewables, construction, healthcare, tertiary education, and finance sectors.
Licia is recognised for her ability to engage leaders and support improved workplace culture through practical, commercially grounded solutions. She regularly conducts complex workplace investigations and psychosocial hazard reviews, appears before industrial tribunals and anti‑discrimination bodies, and designs and leads enterprise bargaining strategies that balance compliance, commercial outcomes, and employee engagement.
Licia has held senior employee relations roles in large, complex, and unionised environments, including BHP and the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance. She has also served as National Employee Relations Manager for Laing O’Rourke Australia Construction Pty Ltd and as Associate to Commissioner Paula Spencer at Fair Work Australia, providing her with deep insight into both operational and tribunal perspectives.
Her recent work includes supporting implementation of Respect at Work reforms for a national healthcare provider. Licia is known for her strategic thinking, pragmatic problem‑solving, and ability to quickly build trusted relationships to achieve value‑driven and sustainable outcomes.
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Mark McGee
With more than 30 years’ experience, Mark is a senior HR, employee relations, and business transformation adviser who works closely with Boards and executive teams to strengthen organisational performance and deliver strategy. His experience spans steel manufacturing, information technology, financial services, infrastructure, energy, and mining.
Mark has built a distinguished career in complex, global environments. He spent more than a decade with BHP in senior IR/ER and HR roles across its steel, IT, and corporate businesses, before relocating to Singapore to lead the people and organisational aspects of major transformation initiatives following the BHP/Billiton merger. This included establishing the Singapore Marketing Hub, restructuring Asian sales offices, and supporting significant growth in China.
Returning to Australia, Mark became Global Head of Human Resources for a rapidly growing boutique investment banking group as it prepared for public listing, before rejoining BHP as Vice President Human Resources for its global Commercial function. He later moved into a senior commercial leadership role, leading sales, purchasing, and trading for BHP’s (and subsequently South32’s) LME metals and related commodities.
Since returning to Australia in 2018, Mark has focused on consulting and advisory work, partnering with Boards, CEOs, and executive teams to improve organisational efficiency and effectiveness. His work centres on capability, organisational design, processes, and governance as critical enablers of sustainable business performance.
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Rob Fisher
Rob is a senior People & Culture leader with deep experience supporting complex transformations across mining, energy, and natural resources. He brings a practical, outcomes‑driven approach to organisational design, culture, workforce transitions, and crisis response, with a strong track record advising leaders through periods of growth, disruption, and change.
Over the majority of his career at BHP, Rob worked closely with early‑stage projects, minerals exploration, and commercial teams across multiple geographies. He played a lead role in the separation and establishment of South32 as a standalone ASX‑listed company, and supported BHP’s Samarco joint venture in Brazil following the Fundão tailings dam failure—providing on‑the‑ground People & Culture leadership in a highly complex, high‑stakes environment.
Rob has extensive experience across the full employee and organisational lifecycle, from market entry and workforce build‑out through to restructuring and exit. His international experience spans mature and emerging markets, including Ethiopia, Zambia, Russia, Cambodia and Mongolia, with particular depth in China, where he supported customer‑facing teams in Shanghai and Beijing.
He is known for partnering effectively with senior leaders, navigating cultural and regulatory complexity, and building resilient, purpose‑led organisations that can perform in challenging environments.
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With over 35 years’ experience in industrial relations, Brendan partners with organisations to manage complex workplace issues with confidence and clarity. He has advised employers across a wide range of industries, including Local Government, Hospitality and Gaming, FMCG, Manufacturing, Building and Construction, and Logistics.
Having held senior IR and HR leadership roles within major hospitality, manufacturing, and construction businesses, Brendan understands the commercial pressures facing employers and delivers advice that is practical, timely, and defensible.
Brendan provides strategic advice across all aspects of industrial relations, including enterprise bargaining, dispute resolution, managing protected and unlawful industrial action, mergers and acquisitions, performance management, workplace compliance, and tribunal representation. He has extensive experience working with unions including the UWU, AMWU, AWU, CFMMEU, CEPU (ETU and PPTEU), and the SDA.
He is also a licensed workplace investigator (Victoria), regularly engaged to conduct independent investigations into bullying, discrimination, and workplace conduct issues. In addition, Brendan has contributed to legal education as an occasional lecturer and sessional examiner with the Faculty of Law at Monash University.
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Brendan Richardson
Caroline Bosch
With extensive experience across APAC, Caroline is a senior HR and organisational effectiveness adviser specialising in workforce capability, change management, and operating model uplift in complex, multi‑sector environments. She works closely with executive teams and key partners to strengthen people capability, governance, and ways of working in highly regulated and operationally intensive contexts. Her experience spans infrastructure, construction, healthcare, defence, agriculture, and technology.
Caroline has built a distinguished career leading HR, workforce, and people‑centred transformation functions across large infrastructure and capital programs. She brings a strong track record translating strategic intent into practical, scalable capability uplift through structured workforce strategies, clear governance, targeted education, and disciplined change programs. She is highly experienced in navigating matrixed, politically sensitive environments and maintaining a strong focus on delivery.
Recognised for building trusted relationships across leaders, suppliers, and partners, Caroline is known for enabling adoption of new ways of working in fragmented and high‑pressure environments. Personable and credible, she is a skilled communicator, facilitator, coach, and mentor who brings people on the journey through clarity, empathy, and sound judgement.
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Emma Hoy
With more than 20 years’ experience, Emma is a senior employment and industrial relations lawyer and senior people & culture professional who works closely with executive teams to navigate complex workforce relations, governance, and enterprise bargaining in unionised environments across the public and private sectors.
Emma has built a distinguished career across legal and operational leadership roles, bringing deep technical expertise together with a strong understanding of organisational realities. Most recently, she served as Manager People & Culture at Toowoomba Regional Council, where she led enterprise bargaining strategy and workforce relations for a large, diverse workforce. She is highly regarded for her ability to translate complex industrial relations legislation, awards, and enterprise agreements into clear, practical frameworks that leaders can confidently apply.
Her advisory and training work focuses on building leadership capability in industrial relations decision‑making, enterprise agreement implementation, performance management, and workplace conduct. Emma has partnered with executives and frontline leaders to strengthen compliance while enabling effective, constructive workforce management.
Emma’s experience spans ASX‑listed and multinational organisations, local government, private legal practice, and advisory roles, including work with the Australian Industry Group. She is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia and is known for delivering clear, pragmatic advice that supports sound decision‑making and sustainable workforce outcomes.
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Josie Healy
With over 20 years of experience as an organisational change management specialist Josie has partnered with some of Australia's largest and most complex organisations across Mining & Resources, Utilities, Energy, Rail, Airports and Professional Services.
To help organisations navigate complex change, Josie’s focus is on connecting strategy to people, and vision to measurable outcomes. She brings strong capability in supporting adoption of new technologies, process redesign and new ways of working, with an approach grounded in recognised change management frameworks which include Prosci/ADKAR and Kotter. Josie is skilled at ensuring the change management approach is fit for purpose and applied pragmatically to suit the scale, pace and complexity of engagement.
As a transformation specialist she has experience spanning operating model redesign, ERP and digital transformation, culture change and large-scale enterprise change programs.
Josie brings both strategic depth and hands-on delivery — working at executive level to shape transformation agendas, while staying close enough to the work to ensure adoption actually happens on the ground.
Specialising in change strategy & execution planning, stakeholder management (from C-Suite to frontline employees), leadership alignment & coaching, culture change, communications & engagement, workforce transition planning, change Impact assessment, business readiness assessment and adoption tracking.
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Shermonika Walker
With more than 16 years’ experience, Shermonika is a senior people and change management professional who partners with executive leadership teams to deliver transformation that strengthens organisational performance and enhances people experience. She combines deep expertise in organisational psychology with strong commercial acumen to help leaders align culture, capability, and performance to achieve sustainable business outcomes.
Shermonika has built her career in complex, global environments, leading large‑scale transformation, culture, and capability initiatives across multiple industries and geographies. She is recognised for her evidence‑based, values‑driven approach and specialises in organisational change and transformation, leadership development and coaching, and culture and capability strategy.
She has partnered extensively with executive teams to design and deliver people and change strategies that enable leaders and teams to adapt, perform, and sustain growth. Her experience spans the resources, professional services, and consulting sectors, working across Australia, the Americas, and Canada.
Previously, Shermonika established and led the People Excellence team for a global mining organisation, driving workforce strategy, leadership capability, and culture change across major international markets. She has also led HR change functions for global resources organisations and delivered executive development and transformation programs for leading advisory firms
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