––––  TEAM

CEO and Managing Partner, Kirstin Schneider

Adaptive, courageous leadership

Kirstin Schneider leads the Hyfen Consultancy offering and consulting team.

She is a trusted partner to SME and fast-growth CEOs and Boards across Australia. Offering decades of experience within SME, venture businesses and corporates, she now chooses to work with businesses and enterprises that have a strong mission and purpose at their core.

Kirstin’s expertise is diagnosing opportunities and risks in an uncertain future. She leverages latent value at the heart of your business or enterprise. With her rare combination of experiences, Kirstin is able to infuse all business model and operating model strategies with purpose, people and culture.

An experienced SME business owner, tech entrepreneur and Non Executive Director in her own right, and now working with businesses and Boards in private enterprises, Kirstin has also held executive and transformation leadership roles with blue-chip Australian businesses including at Coles (then, Wesfarmers), Orica, Australia Post and AGL Energy. This breadth of in-house, small business, corporate and consulting experience is invaluable context from which Kirstin can quickly understand her client’s worlds.

Our Trusted Partners

  • Karolina Karon

    HYFEN CONSULTING PARTNER

    Karolina is a highly strategic, customer and people-oriented Marketing, Customer experience (CX) and Brand strategist.

    With over 17 years of international experience forged in multinationals, top ASX listed companies and start-ups, she is the customer champion you need at your top table. Her mission? To leave your business and the world a better place.

    Equipping businesses to connect the dots between business goals, product strategy and brand strategy is Karolina’s core expertise. Karolina has uncovered new markets and both built and implemented winning growth strategies for businesses in Finance, Insurance, Entertainment, FMCG and Technology.

    As a Hyfen Consulting Partner, she unites her understanding of the customer with a unique blend of creativity and analytics – putting the human at the heart of the work.

    Connect with Karolina via Linkedin
    Or reach out directly: info@hyfen.com.au

  • Chantelle Pritchard

    HYFEN CONSULTING PARTNER

    Chantelle is a courageous, internationally experienced finance and operations executive, passionate about people, teams and commercial value. With the mental acuity to understand complex strategic issues, coupled with a drive for results, Chantelle is sought out as a future-focussed leader of business change, growth and transformation.

    Chantelle’s 16 years with Mars Inc., established her as a values-driven commercial leader both in Australia and in the US. She has also supported private and ASX listed businesses, ranging from $12M to >$35B revenue, through significant change. She has managed risk, corporate governance, investor relations and treasury in FMCG, retail, ecommerce, manufacturing and mining services.

    A warm and considered leader and business performance coach, Chantelle provides financial, operational and professional assurance to CEOs, Boards, CFOs, COOs and their teams. She is the person you want by your side to achieve a series of bold operational or commercial goals.

    Connect with Chantelle via LinkedIn
    Or reach out directly: info@hyfen.com.au

  • Elana Garlick

    HYFEN CONSULTING PARTNER

    Elana is a highly strategic, internationally experienced, MBA-qualified people strategist and people partner. She is a high-pace, no-nonsense, highly effective deliverer of commercially strategic outcomes.

    Heading up People and Culture for technology scale-ups in Australia, New York and London, Elana has developed a deep understanding of how to enable the delivery of product innovations through agile and adaptable organisations.

    A systemic strategist with a get-things-done approach, Elana is the person you need by your side to drive people, process and culture change in your business, the right way.

    Having worked across Financial Services, Technology, STEM Tech, Property and Education, Elana brings a wealth of business savvy developed through contextual experience and creative solution-finding.

    Connect with Elana via Linkedin
    Or reach out directly: info@hyfen.com.au

  • Esmeralda Soliano-Wood

    HYFEN CONSULTING ASSOCIATE

    Esme is a seasoned People, Culture and Change General Manager, with high energy and results focus. She has driven commercial results as the Head of People and Culture and coached Executives in national organisations.

    As a certified Six Sigma black belt with Scaled Agile experience she brings analytical change leadership to every role and she has led sustained change programs with hard operational objectives.

    As a Hyfen Consulting associate, Esme offers our clients deep experience in the Health, Mining, Finance and Logistics sectors as well as sound strategy implementation, OD and generalist P&C experience. Esme’s expertise is in high demand, so please contact us early to ensure she is available to lead your next big transformation, complex change program or capability build.

    Connect with Esme via LinkedIn
    Or reach out directly: info@hyfen.com.au

  • Nicholas Jackson

    PRINCIPAL, JACKSON ADVISORY

    Remuneration and reward can accelerate or impede the success of an organisation. Whether by design or inadvertently, it can send loud messages about strategic direction, organisational values, performance expectations and group collaboration.

    Hyfen chooses to partner with experts in the field, Jackson Advisory, to review and redesign the remuneration architecture of our clients. Nicholas Jackson, has an extensive track record advising clients on their fixed and variable remuneration arrangements.

    Read more about Nicholas’s professional background, client testimonials and recent publications here: www.jacksonadvisory.com.au

    Or connect with Nicholas via Linkedin

  • Melanie Kinnaird

    PARTNER AT DOTT GROUP

    Fostering a connected, healthy and productive workplace is top of mind for most CEOs. Finding such a workplace to be a part of is top of mind for most employees. But as a leader, it can be hard to know where to start. We recognise that a healthy and connected workplace is an essential cornerstone of any effective People and Workforce strategy.

    Hyfen choses to partner with Dott Group to help our clients deliver healthier and more connected workplaces after client engage in our strategic People and Workforce review service. Melanie Kinnaird and the Dott Group team are experts in team coaching, learning, well-doing, and HR-as-a-service. All of this, served up to suit your organisational culture.

    Read more about Dott Group’s approach, services and team here www.dottgroup.com.au

    Or connect with Melanie via Linkedin