Helen Hovenga

Helen is a talented HR Executive who has worked with Executives, CEO’s and Boards in developing and delivering transformation, the ideal Culture and the People Strategy with passion, courage, innovation, curiosity, kindness, drive and effective performance outcomes. Her most recent permanent role was as Executive Director, People & Culture with Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre for 3500 Health practitioners and Research employees.

As well as having broad and deep HR expertise, she is a deep thinker, high achiever, quick learner, influencer, early adopter and futurist with diverse experience across large, complex organisations and sectors, including Public Health, Finance, Manufacturing, Mining, Automotive and service industries such as Retail.

Her HR and business experience has been developed with organisations such as Afterpay, Mars, Toyota, Coles, CUB, Cleanaway, Newcrest and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Executive roles along with extensive strategy development and project delivery.

Helen has a Masters of Business (HR) with distinction from Charles Sturt University; a Graduate Diploma in HR Management and Industrial Relations from RMIT and a Bachelor of Arts, Double major in Psychology and Politics from Swinburne. Helen’s passions are in change, transformation, agility, developing and implementing Strategy, people leadership, stakeholder partnerships, high performance, digital solutions and improved commercial outcomes.