Our Team
Hendrik Lourens
Senior Consultant I Sydney I Email
Hendrik has extensive experience in leadership positions within the manufacturing sector as well as in consulting in mining and manufacturing. He has turned many declining businesses around by quickly shifting productivity and profitability performance. The Theory of Constraints and Complexity Theory provides him with a framework to identify and manage leverage points and to unshackle frontline employees and middle management from the prevailing best practice paradigms. His strengths lie in improving quality and productivity and increasing leadership effectiveness. Hendrik's experience is underpinned by a Masters in Polymer Science, Honours in Chemistry, an MBA and certification in the Theory of Constraints.
Kym Bancroft
Senior Consultant | Brisbane | Email
Kym is a passionate and future-state-focused executive health and safety leader, holding a Master’s in Safety Leadership from Griffith University, Master’s in Applied Psychology (Organisational) and a Graduate Diploma in OHS from Murdoch University.
Over the past 25 years, Kym has amassed significant experience working in safety leadership roles across a diverse range of industries, cultures and geographical locations, including open-cut mining in Canada, through to offshore gas in the US, and a raft of sectors across the Asia Pacific. Kym’s more recent roles have included the Head of Safety, Environment and Wellbeing for Serco Asia Pacific and the Head of Health and Safety at Queensland Urban Utilities, where she successfully led an ambitious safety cultural transformation across the business.
In the last twelve months, Kym has been working as the WHS Queensland Electrical Safety Office and Workers Compensation Regulator in Queensland. As the Deputy Director-General of the Office of Industrial Relations, Kym focused on improving safety, health, productivity and fairness in Queensland workplaces.
Jop Havinga
Senior Consultant I Brisbane I Email
Jop Havinga has a fascination with the messy details of work-as-done and how these play out in the organisation as a whole. This from the factors that shape individual decisions, what meaning people ascribe to their environment, organisational actions, and how these affect work. Jop is currently finishing up his PhD with the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University, on coordination and teamwork process of blast crews in mining. Before that Jop has worked in human computer interaction on software and technology and has gotten his bachelor in psychology and master in human factors and media psychology at Twente University in the Netherlands
Zinta Satins
Chief Innovator |Brisbane | Email
Zinta was first attracted to safety in the 90s when working as a chemist in the steel industry. This lead to her taking on a number of occupational roles including that of hygienist. After over a decade she left the steel industry to work as an HSE professional and over the years gained practical experience in construction, engineering, mining and hospitality in both regional and corporate roles. Zinta has always loved safety but no more so than when she was introduced to the concepts of safety differently almost 10 years ago at SKM. She has never looked back.
Prof. Michael Behm
Executive Consultant I USA I Email
Michael is a professor of Occupational Safety at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and Coordinator of the Working Commission on Safety and Health in Construction at the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, in the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Public Health from Oregon State University. Mike has been a Certified Safety Professional since 1995. He was a safety and health professional for 10 years with Lenox China and Saint-Gobain Corporation. Mike serves on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Construction Sector Occupational Research and Prevention through Design (PtD) Councils. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology, Singapore focusing on safe design aspects of urban greenery systems, and a Visiting Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Mike’s philosophy on work is that each person has a significant role in arranging the conditions where they and their workmates can be successful.
Sue Ieraci
Executive Consultant | Sydney | Email
Sue Ieraci is a specialist Emergency Physician who spent 35 years working in public hospitals before taking up a new role in Telemedicine. As well as her clinical role, Sue has been involved in Emergency Department management as well as health system consultancy, policy-making roles and medical regulation. Over the years, she has been asked to review Emergency Departments across the country, giving advice on culture and process improvement and holding problem-solving workshops to assist colleagues in structuring and implementing positive change.
Since leaving her long-term hospital role, Sue has focussed on understanding the multiple factors that contribute to poor workplace culture, including risk aversion and blame-shifting. She sees her engagement with the principles and talent of Art of Work as a pathway to improving the complex set of factors that lead to frustration and burnout, both in Health Services and throughout the world of work.
Danny Harnedy
Leadership Enabler| Brisbane | Email
Danny started his career as an accountant and has over 20 years’ experience in senior executive roles across a range of functional disciplines for large corporates, across a breadth of industry sectors, in the UK, US and for the last 10 years in Australia.
Danny has a track record for leading strategic and operational improvements to deliver step-change in risk management, and safety and financial performance.
Most recently, as Head of Safety Health and Environment at Australia’s largest rail freight operator, Danny applied these problem solving approaches to the task of leading the development of Aurizon’s refreshed Safety Strategy.
Rod Cameron
Senior Consultant | Brisbane | Email
Rod is a senior construction and mining resources industry professional, with 25 years’ experience in environmental and safety management systems, project approvals, project development and operational experience across industries (construction, mining and services) and regions.
Rod has worked over 20 years in both operational and corporate roles for BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Peabody Energy and Thiess. During his time at Thiess, his experience included involvement and corporate oversight of some of Australia’s largest construction projects, including the Airport Link Tunnel in Brisbane and the Victorian Desalination Plant. Rod has been responsible for implementing group wide integrated HSE management systems across national and international operations. He has held corporate accountability for environmental governance and board reporting for ASX listed entities and on projects throughout Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, India, Canada and Africa.
Rod combines a unique blend of management, operational experience and project management skills.
Joanna Priestly
Senior Consultant| Perth| Email
Joanna has a demonstrated track record in working with organisations to strengthen and enhance their EHS performance through effective leadership, change management, management system design and auditing, and a practical application of sound governance principles and practices. These well-honed skills have been successfully applied across a broad range of industries, including natural resource management, agribusiness, civil construction, industrial manufacturing, supply chain and distribution, mining, energy, health and service sectors.
Joanna has also acted as an expert witness in environmental and occupation-related health cases and has conducted capability training in Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and India. She is currently lecturing in the Division of Health Sciences at Curtin University and has since 2010 lectured at postgraduate and graduate-level covering: Environmental Management/Environmental Health Management, Compensation and Injury Management, Ergonomics, Occupational Diseases, Introduction to Health, Safety and Environment, Indigenous Cultures and Health, Foundations of Professional Health Practice, Health and Health Behaviours, and Inter-professional Health Education, and Imagining Health in Sociological and Cultural.
Joanna is well qualified with a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and qualifications in auditing, project management, leadership and adult learning.
Jasmine Hopcutt
Systems Enabler | United Kingdom| Email
Jasmine is a skilled, motivated professional with substantial experience in the implementation and management of Administration Operations, Customer Service Relations, Research Outcomes and the overall Health and Wellness of human activities. She has studied and worked in environments that have developed her analytical abilities and increased her knowledge and training to understand human behaviour.
David Porteous
Senior Consultant| Sydney| Email
David is a work health and safety professional with a passion for safety. He is skilled in developing systems and strategies to achieve a safe workplace. He has over thirty years of experience in the heavy manufacturing industry in technical, managerial and work health and safety roles. Also, he has considerable expertise in coaching safety leadership, developing a safety culture, and designing effective and sustainable WHS systems consistent with organisational objectives. David specialises in developing and implementing WHS systems to complement a high performing safety culture. Key services include:
Improving an organisation’s safety management system to meet legislative and other requirements whilst creating the space for leadership and engagement to flourish.
Building simple and innovative systems to improve an organisation’s safety compliance and outcomes.
Developing creative strategies for improving an organisation’s safety culture.
Project management of safety improvement and risk reduction projects; and
Managing the practical implementation of safety strategy, systems and culture.
Before this, from 2006 - 2013, he held several instrumental OH&S oriented roles with BlueScope Steel, a major supplier of steel products across Australia and New Zealand.