Lockdown, Burn-out and the Hybrid Working Model

Marc Rowley is a well-qualified, trusted and experienced practitioner with a strong sense of the commercial world. He has over 20 years’ experience as a psychologist in the psychological services field enriching organisational relationships and performance across a diverse range of government and private sector industries throughout Australia.

Marc is known for his highly skilled and down-to‐earth, practical approach, identifying powerful solutions and strategies for organisations and individual clients; both in effectively managing workplace people issues and personal areas of concern.

Sam specialises in enabling change in mature organisations, and before she came to government held senior executive roles in identity services, banking and digital communications businesses. She has also worked as a management consultant across both the public and private sectors.

Paul brings over 20 years of management consulting experience, having worked across Oceania, Asia and Europe. He consults at C suite level to clients who have the ambition to align their organization and people strategy with their business strategies. These engagements range from working directly with senior leaders, to the design and execution of large scale people strategy development and transformation programs.

In recent years Paul has served a range of clients across the government transport and infrastructure sectors across Australia. Paul is EY’s lead partner for the Australian Major Project Leadership Academy (AMPLA). This highly successful program which is delivered in partnership with Oxford University, builds project leadership capability within the Victorian, NSW, SA, WA, Queensland and ACT government systems.

Paul has fulfilled his client management and trusted advisor roles over many years in parallel with internal business leadership roles. He currently is EY’s AsiaPac Leader for Organisation & Workforce Transformation.

Kelly Crosthwaite has been in this role since March 2019. Supporting DELWP and the VPS to navigate the 2019/20 bushfires and COVID have been defining experiences during that time.

Prior to this role, Kelly was DELWP’s Regional Director for the Greater Melbourne region for 5 years and before that worked across four jurisdictions in natural resource management including in policy, legal and compliance functions.

She is experienced working with communities, industry and stakeholder groups, including on highly contentious matters. She has experience in delivering major projects, initiating reform, attracting funding and negotiating major agreements for the use of land and resources.

With an HR career spanning 20 years in the public sector and currently the Executive Director of People and Culture at the Department of Transport, Antoinette has extensive experience as a strategic leader. She has worked in public transport in government departments for the past 15 years.

Antoinette has experience in leading strategic and operational people and culture functions and multidisciplinary teams, spanning all functions of HR. She has extensive experience in leading multiple large change programs arising from machinery of government changes, restructuring and culture change and has extensive experience in leading organisational development initiatives and programs to drive engagement, positive workplace cultures and performance.

Developing collaborative relationships across multiple portfolios and agencies that are based on trust, respect and integrity is a key strength. Developing a culture of collaboration, both within the newly forming DoT and across Whole of Government, is central to her success.