OUR TEAM
Our team of experienced and passionate HR Professionals are here to speak with you about your HR goals and how we can partner to help you achieve success.
ANGIE JONES
Principal Human Resources Consultant
Angie is a commercially minded HR Professional with a blend of both strategic and operational excellence. In a constantly changing environment, Angie partners with leaders to drive transformation and deliver people initiatives aligned to business strategy whilst positively impacting employee engagement.
Angie has experience working with clients across the employee lifecycle. Angie has delivered customised HR projects in the areas of organisational design, recruitment and selection, developing employment contracts and policies that ensure compliance and deliver best practice employee benefits, engagement strategies, performance management and remuneration. Recent clients Angie has engaged and delivered HR consulting services to are JobsBank Victoria, Noel Jones Real Estate, Guardian Vaults, Incursions R Us, Treaty Authority, BigFish (IT), and Endota Spa. With her blend of strategic and operational HR experience, Angie takes the time to understand her clients, their needs, and the company’s culture.
Angie holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Deakin University.
Julie Quinlan
Principal Human Resources Consultant
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.
Tom Quinlan
Commercial Director
Tom is an experienced CPA, business owner and entrepreneur. His success is built on and driven by experience working with organisations from start-ups to ASX listed companies. His expertise is garnered from senior leadership experience in roles in Finance, Human Resources, Accounting, Strategic Management and Marketing.
Tom partners with the management team and is responsible for the operational and financial performance of the business. As a CPA, Tom handles the accounting and payroll for the company. Further, as an experienced business owner and entrepreneur with an MBA, he supports the business strategy and development as well as supports the sales and marketing department by conducting analysis of commercial opportunities and driving marketing initiatives.
Kelly Magowan
Senior Human Resources Consultant
With over two decades of experience in Human Resources (HR), Recruitment, and Executive & Career Coaching, Kelly Magowan brings a rich background in developing professionals, leaders, and teams. Her career has included HR roles with global firms such as Ernst & Young and General Electric. Kelly co-founded The Clarity Group in 2003, a boutique HR and coaching consultancy, and later co-founded Six Figures, an innovative career platform connecting high-income earners with $100K+ opportunities. She led Six Figures as CEO until its sale in 2012. From 2012–2019, Kelly served as an Executive & Career Coach at Melbourne Business School, supporting MBA students and alumni. She continues to empower executives, their teams and organisations through leadership coaching, team development, HR, and immersive learning solutions.
Kelly leads EQ People’s Executive coaching and Leadership and development areas and has strong experience general HR consulting.
Kelly holds a Master of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Graduate Certificate in Human Resources Management, Bachelor of Arts, Accredited in The Majors PTI and MBTI, Certified Career Coach & Professional Member of the CDAA, and Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment & Training.
Nicole McConville
Human Resources Consultant
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. Nicole leads recruitment for our clients, include 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, for 40 plus positions. She is trusted by our clients WRD Wells and Self Determination Fund for regular recruitment and offers boutique services to many others. Nicole implements and manages HRIS software such as Employment Hero to optimise and streamline client’s HR functions. Nicole delivers across all the areas of HR support, end-to-end talent acquisition/recruitment, internal communications, and engagement.
Nicole delivers across all the areas of HR support, end-to-end talent acquisition/recruitment, internal communications, and engagement.
Tess Law
Senior Human Resources Consultant
Tess is a People and Culture (P&C) Consultant and Leadership specialist with 17 years’ experience spanning corporate ASX listed firms, the public service sector, health, government, crises response and emergency management. Skilled at stepping into complex environments and hitting the ground running she is experienced in managing the entire employee lifecycle across all functions of HR.
She has a proven record of strategic HR/P&C management including operations, driving and executing on strategy, workforce planning within budget, building workforce capability and managing performance (including disciplinary) across a global workforce. Tess builds high-performing teams, leads change initiatives, drives culture transformation, creates people-centred practices, delivers company communication plans and conducts financial workforce resourcing.
Tess is experienced in working closely with Board Directors, CEOs and Executive Leadership Teams and brings credibility, integrity and strategic insight to create high-functioning workplaces where people thrive. She values workplace accountability, future focus, continuous improvement and practices that enhance performance and wellbeing. She is an advocate for the ‘outside-in’ approach placing the employee experience and customer journey at the heart of success. She has post-graduate qualifications in Human Resource Management, is serving her third year on Deakin University’s Business and Law faculty, teaching and learning committee, and was previously a member of their HR Management Advisory Board.
Sara young
Executive Manager, Strategy & Operations
Sara is an experienced manager with a strong background in recruitment and selection as well as employee onboarding, engagement, training and coaching. She’s developed HR policies and procedures and implemented measurable performance management tools to align employee performance with business outcomes. Sara has over 10 years of experience in start-ups and large organisations across Southeast Asia, Australia and the United States.
At EQ People, Sara provides both strategic direction as well as operational and administrative support. As General Manager, she evaluates and improves operations and financial performance, staff retention and development, marketing strategy and client engagement. She completed her MBA from Monash University in 2015.
EQ People combines decades of HR expertise to deliver tailored solutions that enhance leadership, streamline processes, and build a culture of accountability for business growth.
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