OUR TEAM

As a highly experienced HR Professional, Julie partners with executives and leaders to drive transformation in constantly changing businesses and has a track record of doing so in several sectors including retail property management, financial services, retail, and recruitment.

Recently, Julie has consulted to Cabrini Health, where she assisted in developing their annual leadership team offsite and was fundamental in designing a survey for their Visiting Medical Officers, analysing data and presenting results to key stakeholders. Julie’s experience with other organisations includes reviewing HR policies and creating a variety of compliant and progressive policy, procedure and position description documents, conducting research into organisation design approaches and designing effective performance appraisal frameworks.

Julie holds a Bachelor of Business from Monash University.

A capable and experienced human resource professional, Nicole partners seamlessly with managers within your business. With a background in agency recruitment, she has worked across several industry sectors including retail, agriculture, wine and finance to successfully fulfill a broad range of roles from entry-level support to senior-level management.

Nicole’s career commenced in Human Resources working for both the Brash Group and Country Road as an Executive Assistant/HR Support, before moving into an HR Officer role within the NAB Group. Nicole cut her teeth in recruitment when she joined the boutique agency Qudos Recruitment in their permanent division and found an affinity for the end-to-end recruitment process and the satisfaction it brought in seeing both the successful placement of the candidate and happy client.

In 2007 Nicole commenced her own Virtual Assistant business – providing PA/EA, HR, and recruitment support to small businesses across Australia. This was a successful journey for 15 years that saw her work with a broad range of clients including Limestone Coast Wines, The Hidden Sea Wine, Free to Feed, MacPhees Wine, Rain Agribusiness, Enlightening Executive Coaching, The Magokoro Practice – among a few. In 2023, Nicole worked solely with one of her clients, Rain Agribusiness, as HR Manager providing recruitment and operational HR to their Queensland and NSW business. Here, she established the HRIS, policies, and procedures, as well as WHS processes, and recruitment and onboarding protocols.

In May 2024, Nicole joined the EQ People team. She led the recruitment space for our client The Treaty Authority that was formed in 2024 to facilitate the formation of treaties between the State of Victoria and First Peoples in Victoria. An end-to-end, recruitment project, to recruit 50-plus positions for the ongoing operation of the Authority. Nicole implements and manages HRIS software such as Employment Hero for our clients to optimise and streamline their HR functions.

Nicole delivers across all the areas of HR support, end-to-end talent acquisition/recruitment, internal communications, and engagement.

Craig Hudson is a HR professional with over two decades of experience across various industry sectors. He has a strong track record of aligning business strategy with people initiatives. His expertise covers organisational design and development, change management, employee engagement, talent acquisition, performance management, career development, diversity and inclusion, employee relations, industrial relations, compliance, and reward and recognition. Craig’s ability to navigate complex HR challenges and deliver impactful solutions has earned him recognition throughout his career. Passionate about developing leaders, Craig provides strategic, operational, and practical advice that leads to improved business results and an engaged workforce. ustralia.

Craig’s hands-on, solution-focused and pragmatic approach has seen him work with leading technology and engineering organisations, including Schneider Electric, Invensys, Ericsson Australia, Alinta Energy, Mincore, and TEK Ocean Energy Services. His global experience, particularly in Asia, has provided him with valuable cultural competency and sensitivity.

Craig possesses deep knowledge of employment law, employee-focused policies, and payroll management. He has led comprehensive HR reviews ensuring compliance with national and state legislation and provided valued recommendations on issues such as diversity and inclusion. By engaging with leaders and managers, he has offered expert advice on complex employee relations issues, often creating coaching opportunities. He played a key role in securing the ASX listing of TEK Ocean Energy Services by ensuring compliance from an employee perspective.

Craig has initiated and implemented remuneration strategies, benchmarking, salary positioning, and annual salary reviews. He has collaborated with global Compensation and Benefit teams to implement programs aligned with performance management outcomes and organisational norms. Craig has led sessions on performance appraisal processes, goal setting, personal development, and capability development. By leveraging data to understand situations, he leads solution-focused discussions with managers effectively.

In his spare time, he serves as a committee member of a secondary school, driving an initiative to remove disadvantages for students.