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Our team

Better HR starts with the people doing it

The experts trusted with the work that demands the highest level of skill

Our team spans consulting and technology. Alongside them sits a wider network of experienced HR practitioners who choose fractional and project work to extend their legacy beyond one business. They get into a business quickly, work out what's actually going on, and leave it better than they found it.

MEET THE TEAM

Jessie Ivancic, founder of O-HR

Jessie Ivancic

CEO & Chief HR Officer

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Jessie leads O-HR and works directly with clients as a Chief People Officer through interim, advisory and specialist consulting engagements. She and O-HR's CHRO consultants take on Australia's highest-risk, most complex engagements, the kind most organisations only face once. She is also the creator of Nooma.
Read more about Jessie.

Alex Bain of Castle Digital, O-HR's development partner

Alex Burton

Head of Product - Nooma

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Alex leads the product strategy and delivery of Nooma, translating our industry-tested prototypes and blank page design approach into direction for his team of developers, AI engineers, designers and operations specialists, who build safe, purpose-built software that hasn't existed before.

Angie, O-HR team member

Angie Su

EA & Operations

Angie is Executive Assistant to our CHRO and holds responsibility for O-HR's operations, community engagement and brand. She runs our channels and content, coordinates partners, pilots and events, and keeps the founder prepared and present in the market.

Jessie Ivancic, founder of O-HRSmriti Nagpal, O-HR team memberAlex Bain of Castle Digital, O-HR's development partnerAlex Bain of Castle Digital, O-HR's development partner

Smriti Nagpal

Responsible AI Analyst

Smriti produces original research to educate our profession, helping us make sense of AI in HR and what it actually delivers. She works directly with our pilot partners to measure the impact of our own tools, and operationalises our social, environmental, privacy and security commitments.

Our Network of Talent

Experience that shows up exactly when you need it

Our network reaches across Australia and includes some of the most skilled HR practitioners in the country. They choose engagement and project work deliberately. They take one delivery at a time, do it properly, and move to the next business only once they've left something behind.

Project work suits how they like to operate: high energy, high impact, and a genuine appetite for something new. This way of working takes real experience. Walking into an unfamiliar business and adding value from day one isn't a skill everyone has, so we only work with practitioners who've already proven they can do it.Every consultant in the network brings their own specialty, their own systems experience, and their own track record. Between them, they cover:

  • Cheif Human Resources Officer / Chief People Officer
  • General Manager, People and Culture
  • Head of Human Resources / Head of People and Culture
  • Head of Talent
  • Payroll Remediation Specialist
  • Human Resources Manager / People and Culture Manager
  • Senior Human Resources Business Partner
  • Talent Acquisition Specialist
  • Human Resources Advisor
  • People and Culture Coordinator
  • Expert training fascilitators
  • Board and committee members and advisors

If you're an experienced practitioner and this is how you like to work, see our careers page.

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