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Mark Goldsworthy
Senior Executive Consultant
Mark Goldsworthy brings a wealth of experience in leading People and Culture functions across government and private sectors. Known for his humanistic leadership and commitment to fostering psychologically safe workplaces, Mark excels in identifying and developing high-performing talent.<...
Mark Ogston
Chief Executive
Mark founded Leading Roles in 2012 to provide specialist assistance in recruitment and human resource related projects for councils, and he is a passionate advocate for the development and performance of the local government sector. Mark has been working with councils for 25 years, holding senior roles in companies that provi...
Eleanor Ogston
Executive Director
Eleanor Ogston provides leadership and oversight of Leading Roles' operations. She has 19 years’ experience in working with the Queensland local government sector and has strong relationships with many elected members, council CEOs and Executive Managers. Eleanor has significant experience in assisting local governme...
Belinda Walker
Executive Talent Consultant
Belinda is our senior recruitment specialist with more than 15 years’ experience recruiting executive, senior management and specialist roles in public and private sectors in the United Kingdom, Australian Capital Territory and Queensland.As a high-level communications specialist, Belinda worked in the not-for-profit sector and profess...
Katharine Ottaway
Talent Consultant
Katharine is an experienced and resourceful senior recruitment consultant having worked across both the private and public sectors across Australia. Her experience across labour hire, internal and external recruiting and job networking, has enabled Katharine to build strong relationships with stakeholders, implement new strategies and process...
Angie Simmonds
Principal Talent Consultant
Angie’s experience is primarily as an internal recruiter, working in both the blue and white collar spaces. Initially studying law, Angie realised that while people engagement was important in her career path she wanted to influence people’s lives in a different way. In 2015, Angie found herself in a Recruitment role and that’s when she found...
Jeanette Graham
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Jeanette is a highly experienced human resources and recruitment practitioner. Her work history includes eight years as a HR generalist within a large metro local government as well as senior HR and recruitment roles within the IT, Banking and Agency Recruitment sectors. As Talent Acquisitions Specialist, Jeanette brings a wealth ...
Dee du Toit
Business Support Officer
Dee brings nearly 20 years support and administration experience to the Leading Roles team. Dee recently immigrated from New Zealand where she worked as a team leader for Whangarei District Council. Dee managed the organisation's fleet and telecomms team and specialised in regulatory and statutory planning and compliance.As the Le...
Marina Klopper
Talent Acquisition Officer
Specialising in data management, business reporting and compliance, Marina joined our team in 2018 after immigrating from South Africa. Working closely with our consultancy team, Marina enjoys the challenge of finding local government’s future leaders. Marina works alongside the Leading Roles Talent Consultants to search and headh...
Liarne Gollan
Business Support Officer
Liarne brings over 30 years of support and administration experience to the Leading Roles team. She joins us after her most recent role as an Administration Manager with a leading not-for-profit organisation. Liarne is highly experienced in business organisation and development, communication of policies and procedures, and writing and prepar...
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