Our Team

We believe that a ‘People-first’ approach is the key to unlocking the full potential of individuals, teams, and organisations.

Our Hargraves team is a powerhouse of diverse skills and expertise spanning innovation, collaboration, culture, diversity, leadership, and strategy. Each team member brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives to help you tackle challenges and make change happen.

With nearly two decades of experience building a thriving community, conducting extensive research, and creating cutting-edge resources and tools, we understand the inherent links between collaboration and innovation, transformation and growth. This insight is at the core of our ‘People-First’ (Innovation and Tools) approach. An approach that places people, processes, ideas, and collaboration at the forefront of our strategies to deliver innovative, sustainable, and people-centred solutions.

Further, we recognise that collaboration is about achieving more together. As such, our collaborative partners share specific expertise to enrich the collective wisdom of our community.

Meet Our Team

Allan Ryan

Founder & Executive Director

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Meet Allan

Tess Julian

Principal Consultant

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Meet Tess

Sandra Loader

Member Advocate, Victoria

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Meet Sandra

Leisl Kimber

Member Services

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Meet Leisl

Meet our Collaborative Partners

Dr Graham Kenny

CEO

Dr Graham Kenny, CEO of Strategic Factors, is an internationally recognised expert and author in strategy and performance measurement.

With an impressive resume including 50 published articles in the Harvard Business Review, Graham is passionate about helping managers, executives, and boards generate strategic thinking and achieve effective execution by turning strategy into action.

Our collaboration brings the wealth of Graham's expertise and knowledge to our community. Meet Graham at our upcoming flagship event, Strategic Execution 2024.

Sandra D'Souza

CEO/Founder

Author, thought leader and advocate for diversity and inclusion, Sandra inspires organisations to create more inclusive workplaces through the power of social impact, gender equality, and leadership development.

Our collaboration with Sandra brings our expertise together for innovative diversity programs like Women@Work and Inclusive Leadership, as well as developing new initiatives to drive meaningful change.

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Kate Molloy

(BA, Grad Dip (Ad Ed)) Director

WEIR specialise in addressing complex workplace issues and guiding leaders to cultivate a thriving and positive work environment. As a leading People and Culture consultant, Kate brings a wealth of experience and expertise in conflict management and cultivating a positive workplace culture.

Our collaboration brings together WEIR's workplace expertise and Hargraves' cutting-edge tools to build strong team relationships and drive employee engagement and wellbeing.

Dr Christian Stadler

Professor of Strategic Management, Warwick Business School

Author, global thought-leader and expert on strategic innovation, Dr Christian Stadler is particularly passionate about “open innovation” and how organisations can grow and adapt to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage, with a focus on innovation capability and diversification.

Upon reading Christian's book "Enduring Success", I recognised a passionate innovator and kindred spirit. With a solid foundation of friendship and collaboration, I am delighted to welcome him as a collaborative partner.
Allan Ryan

Ricky Nowak

(MAICD, CSP), Executive Coach

A highly versatile facilitator/trainer and Emcee, Ricky also holds strong credentials as a Certified Speaking Professional, Stakeholder Engagement Coach and Certified Human Resource Professional.

Our collaboration brings Ricky's extensive experience working with high-performing individuals, teams and businesses to our Hargraves community. Together, we've developed tools including the Leadership Matters Toolkit and FLOW Conversation Cue Cards.

Leonie Cutts and Craig Browne

Well known in training and development circles, CCS pioneered the image-based communication tool, the Compatibility Communication System, or CCS Cards. Together, we developed Collaborizza®, the team-led collaboration program in a pizza box.

Andrew Pope

With digital collaboration tools at their fingertips - Microsoft 365, Yammer, Microsoft Teams, etc. - today's teams are expected to collaborate seamlessly online. But after years of research, Andrew knows it's not about collaborative tools; it's about collaborative people.

Our collaboration brings digital collaboration expertise and resources to our community.

Cai Kjaer

CEO & Co-founder

SWOOP Analytics specialise in helping organisations measure and improve employee engagement and collaboration including Microsoft 365, SharePoint intranet, Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage and Workplace from Meta.

A collaborative partner since our early days, Cai continues to shares his expertise in social networks and mapping with our community.