Thank you to all  who attended the Adelaide NDISLINK  Workforce Symposium, 16th May 2024

Mark Hunn 

Director 

Engage Abilities 

Mark is the CEO of Engage Abilities and Principal Partner at Provider Launch. He has a Bachelors’ degree in Psychology and Law, a Masters in Law and is currently completing his Doctorate in Corporate Leadership in the NDIS. He is a Practicing Solicitor with over 23 years in governance and compliance within the corporate, government and NGO sectors. Within these, he specialises in governance systems, risk mitigation and imbedding high quality systems within policy and procedure. Mark’s passion is upskilling others to build their capacity as corporate leaders, resulting in high quality services, lower risk and increasing profit margins.

Clare-Louise McCraken 

CEO

Carers and Advocates Australia

As the Director/Founder of Carers and Advocates Australia, Claire has a vision to create a legacy of change in the measurement of "good care" to focus on the measurement of the quality of life. She provides  high-quality care and support to diverse clients and individuals, with a focus on outcomes on quality of life and self-actualisation. Claire manages a large portfolio of cases, allocate support workers and participants, and act as the community liaison between various stakeholders.

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Claire has multiple certifications in business networking, assertiveness techniques, and support coordination. She has extensive skills and experience in case management, client advocacy, NDIS implementation, aged and palliative care, procurement and financial management, client education, allied healthcare team collaboration, emergency and crisis management, and relationship and account management.  She is passionate about adopting a salutogenic and eudaimonic approach to care, and empowering my team of carers and advocates through rigorous training and development.

Claire was awarded an Enablement Award for community advocacy best in Australia 2023. Claire is also the creator of The Butterfly Effect podcast, which has had over 11 million views in its first year, and the model village concept, which addresses sustainability, quality, and employment in community care. 

Lorraine Salloum 

Director

Ability Advocates 

Lorraine is a values driven executive leader who is passionate about making a positive impact on vulnerable communities and social outcomes. She has displayed a strong commitment to service-system linkages, collaboration, and working proactively to prevent and address disadvantage throughout her career.

With extensive experience in the social services sector, Lorraine has supported vulnerable communities in the government sector (central and service delivery agencies), Not for Profit, and For-Purpose, For Profit companies as well as community.

Paul Bryan 

NDIS Provider

Head Coach & Business Consultant

Action and Intent

Paul Bryan is the Head Coach of Action and Intent, specialising in coaching support businesses in the disability services sector.

With 7 years of coaching experience, including 3 focused on the NDIS, Paul is passionate about empowering Australia's most vulnerable by improving the businesses that support them. Through his two coaching programs, Networking Events and Connection Driving Software, Paul helps both entry-level and market leading businesses establish strong foundations and guides growing providers to become people-focused and profitable market leaders.

Renowned for his practical and informative live workshops, Paul simplifies the complicated and brings practicality to the difficult. Having helped numerous providers achieve multimillion-dollar success, Paul's unique tools and systems are set to empower further growth for providers.

Phil Preston 

Purpose Strategist
Speaker, Facilitator & Author
WhyThisNow

Phil Preston is the founder of WhyThisNow, and a purpose strategist who helps individuals and organisations create a legacy they're proud of and others seek to follow.

Purpose-driven approaches help people bring their best to work every day and fuel innovative, adaptable and resilient work cultures. It’s about marrying organisational performance objectives with positive outcomes for their people, clients and surrounding communities.

Over the past 15-years, Phil’s worked with hundreds of clients across all sectors, including projects addressing employment challenges for disadvantaged segments of the workforce, such as the Just Reinvest (Bourke) Regional Employment Initiative, the Wagga Wagga Local Employment Initiative and an ARC funded ‘hidden talent’ research project.

Clients and audiences value his warm, engaging and interactive presentational style.

 

Chris Molnar 

Partner at Kennedys | Accredited Specialist in Workplace Relations 

Chris Molnar is a workplace relations partner at Kennedys. He has practised in the area of workplace relations for over 25 years. He has extensive experience and knowledge in industrial relations, employment law, occupational health and safety, and discrimination. Chris is accredited as a specialist in Workplace Relations by the Law Institute of Victoria. He was the recipient of the prestigious President’s Award in 2009 from the Law Institute of Victoria for his contribution to the specialisation scheme. In 2016 he was awarded the LIV  Rogers Legal Writing Award for the best contribution in 2015 to the Law Institute Journal. 

Chris has acted for individuals, corporations and public sector agencies in a wide range of areas.

Donna Adams 

Donna Adams Consulting 

Donna Adams is a leadership coach, workshop facilitator, and behaviour change expert and the director and founder of Donna Adams Consulting, the Southern Leaders Circle and Business Leaders Circle.  Donna and her 'circle-based approach' are changing people and organisations, one circle at a time.

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Donna consistently pushes the boundaries of traditional leadership and people training for clients such as Yankalilla Council, Kalyra Communities, and Onkaparinga small businesses.

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By fostering a sense of community and accountability within circles, Donna's approach builds momentum that propels individuals toward their objectives.

This sense of collective support fuels progress at an impressive rate. She's currently partnering with the McLaren Vale Business and Tourism Association, Wellbeing SA, and Business SA as part of the Healthy Workplaces Strategy to run leadership circles and healthy workplace & wellbeing workshops to support wellbeing and resilience of business owners, leaders, their employees.

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Leading teams through significant change for over 20 years, including 13 years in Disability, Donna has seen that the number 1 factor to achieving extraordinary results is mindset, hence this is a big focus in the leadership circles and workshops she runs.

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Donna is an internationally accredited NLP Master Practitioner, Trainer and Coach, and holds a Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting).

Donna’s results focused leadership circles, workshops, private & corporate coaching packages provide connection, accountability, and transformation of thinking through working at the unconscious level to align purpose, values, and identity to increase productivity, retention, and wellbeing.

Sharon Floyd 

Engels Floyd Consulting 

Sharon is Director of Engels Floyd Quality Consulting - a leading  NDIS consulting company with a reputation for integrity and professionalism.  Engels Floyd has trained all of the (1100+) NDIS auditors on behalf of the NDIS Commission, which means they know the NDIS registration requirements back to front.  

Sharon has over 30 years experience with specialist expertise in all things quality and compliance - particularly NDIS.  

Sharon's career also  includes being  awarded an Australia Day award for excellence in audit processes, and management of a leadership program for people with disability.