Helen brings twenty years of experience in the public and private sector comprising a depth of project and program management, team facilitation and collaboration and specialist knowledge of the three spheres of government.  She has a deep academic and practitioner base underpinning her experience providing her with a strong grounding in policy development, implementation and evaluation; research; qualitative and quantitative methodologies including interviewing, workshop and focus group facilitation and survey and questionnaire design; stakeholder and community engagement; data and consultation analysis and complex report writing.

Prior to joining Courage Partners, a Canberra based management consultancy, Helen held executive level positions for ten years in the Australian Government Departments of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government and Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.  Helen has also held management positions in the NSW and ACT Governments and in the NSW local government sector at a senior management level.  Her private sector experience includes consultancy and project management at a regional and local government level working across the three spheres of government.

Helen holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences (1996), a Master in Social Planning and Policy (1999) both from Charles Sturt University-Riverina and a PhD (Government) (2010) from the University of Canberra.