Jessie Ivancic GAICD MAHRI

Jessie Ivancic is a Chief Human Resources Officer and management consultant with deep experience across advisory, consulting and in-house executive leadership roles. She has led and advised organisations through crisis, transformation and structural change, including M&A, administration, public scrutiny and workforce redesign, working closely with boards and executive teams across retail, professional services, aged care, travel, hospitality, hotels and manufacturing.

She has led HR functions of up to 50 practitioners, managed budgets running to hundreds of millions of dollars, and been trusted with decisions that carry the highest consequence. She is the person CEOs and leaders call. The number in their phone when they want an off-the-record sense check.

Her work has taken her from redesigning the operating model of a major national retailer aligned to a strategy that helped them scale from $30m to more than $500m in ecommerce, to rebuilding the people governance framework of a large national law firm, to leading the People, Culture and Diversity function at Benetas through a bushfire evacuation on Christmas Eve. She has represented employee creditors through the liquidation of STA Travel in a voluntary capacity, oversaw five countries of covid-safe plans in a pandemic, recovered $2m in Fair Entitlements Guarantee claims for thousands of employees, and sat on crisis committees across industries. These are not hypothetical scenarios. They are the experiences that shape how she thinks and what she builds.

She started O-HR to expand her impact beyond one organisation and meet the needs of companies who find themselves in a crisis. Not every business needs access to the most senior HR talent permanently. But when they do, they need that capability immediately and for exactly as long as the situation requires.

There is a privilege in being brought in at the moment an organisation needs the most help, and leaving it better than you found it.

The best HR capability, the most impactful HR practice, and the safest technology tools have always followed the biggest budgets. Complex workplace relations obligations and risk are less exclusive. That is the gap Jessie is building to close. Making better, trusted AI genuinely accessible to individual Australian HR practitioners, not just organisations with enterprise technology budgets. Building AI literacy and safe practice across the profession. And closing the credibility gap HR has carried in the boardroom for decades, not by advocating for it, but by building the infrastructure that finally makes the work visible.HR has always delivered more than it could show. The tools to prove it are being built.