Melanie Costello

Melanie Costello has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Their most recent role is as a Dashwood starting in November 2021. Prior to this, they worked as a Consultant at shilo.people, a team of innovative HR thinkers, from June 2021 onwards.

In 2007, Melanie joined PwC Australia where they held various roles. Melanie served as a Director of People & Culture from November 2019 to August 2020. In this role, they led a national team of senior HR professionals and was responsible for delivering strategic people initiatives. Earlier, they worked as a Senior Human Capital Business Partner for Consumer, Industrial Products & Services (CIPS) from October 2015 to October 2019, providing people-related advice to the CIPS Business Leader and leading a team of HR generalists. Before that, they took a parental leave from November 2014 to October 2015. From January 2014 to November 2014, they were a Senior Manager - Partner Development (Human Resources), leading significant projects in the firm's learning and development curriculum for partners. Melanie also took a parental leave from October 2012 to January 2014. Their first role at PwC was as a Senior Human Capital Business Partner (Human Resources) for Financial Services (FS) from July 2011 to October 2012.

Prior to joining PwC, Melanie worked at Arnold Bloch Leibler as a Human Resources Advisor from February 2005 to December 2007. Melanie was responsible for recruitment, performance management, and generalist HR activities for the firm's Melbourne and Sydney offices.

Melanie's early career included working at Candle Australia (now Ignite) as a Recruitment Account Manager from June 2000 to February 2005. Candle was a recruitment services company specializing in ICT industry recruitment.

Overall, Melanie's work experience includes strategic HR leadership, talent management, recruitment, performance management, and generalist HR roles across various industries and organizations.

Melanie Costello holds a Bachelor of Applied Science / Business (Management) degree with a specialization in organizational management and change from RMIT University. Melanie has obtained certifications as a Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) Certified Practitioner - Behavior from Thomas International in March 2022. Additionally, Melanie is accredited in CHOICES by Korn Ferry, although the specific timing of this accreditation is not provided.