Our Team
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Director, FourFold Consulting
Anita is a commercially-focused leader specialising in people, strategy and transformation. Over the past 25 years, she has built deep experience in aligning leaders from boardroom to management, accelerating high performance in teams, and helping executives translate business ambition into reality.
Anita works with shareholders, Board Chairs and CEOs in driving strategic and leadership clarity. This includes alignment between shareholders (including Founders) on business intentions and goals, between Boards and Management on strategic direction, executive succession and optimal organisational design, and with CEOs and executive teams on high performance.
Anita has held executive roles in people, strategy and transformation within multinational businesses including ANZ, Rio Tinto, Kinrise and Korn Ferry / Hay Group. A facilitator, advisor and coach, she works across industries to strengthen executive teams and organisational effectiveness, including through global leadership development and purpose and values transformation programs.
Anita is a graduate of the AICD. She is a Vincent Fairfax Fellow, selected as one of 25 leaders each year to participate in the national ethical leadership program. She has completed an executive program with MIT Sloan on digitisation and industrialisation. Anita is an associate of the Melbourne Business School and global facilitator with Duke Corporate Education. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Science (Psychology) and a Masters in Organisational Psychology both from UNSW. She is also a registered psychologist in Australia and member of AICD.
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FourFold Associate
Director, Lorna Conlon Pty LtdLorna has a sought-after blend of deep psychological expertise and business understanding, having worked as a business psychologist in highly commercial and blue-chip environments across the globe for over 30 years. She is passionate about building better leaders, teams and businesses.
Lorna has extensive experience assessing and coaching Board members, C-suite leaders, and asset managers to deliver on stakeholder expectations and strengthen collaboration. She has partnered with senior leaders to build high performance cultures and successfully led the rebuilding of risk culture as part of Enforceable Undertakings with ASIC, which have been favourably reviewed by independent auditors.
Lorna has held leadership and commercial roles throughout her career. She was a Director at Macquarie Group for 14 years, where she held a variety of roles setting the direction globally on talent and senior leader development, including advising the Board on CEO succession. Prior to that she worked in consulting for 10 years and delivered culture and leadership projects for multinationals across Europe, US, Asia and ANZ. Lorna has been a judge for Telstra’s Women in Business Awards.
Lorna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (University College Dublin), a Masters in Occupational Psychology (Queens University Belfast) and is an Associate Fellow and Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. She is a registered psychologist in Australia and a member of AICD.
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FourFold Associate
Director, Red Emu AdvisoryJodie is an experienced management consultant who has spent over 20 years working across Asia Pacific, providing advisory services that help organisations improve business performance through people. She works across sectors and has been instrumental in delivering successful projects involving structural redesign and customised succession and development programs.
Jodie’s approach and access to a range of proven and reliable methodologies ensures that the initiatives she co-designs with her clients are pragmatic, relatable and user-friendly for the leaders who are required to bring leadership to life. Jodie builds strong relationships with her clients through her ability to listen and engage with all stakeholders and navigate often-conflicting requirements.
Jodie has proven experience in leadership coaching, leadership program design and facilitation, often involving the implementation of development curricula over the long-term. Other areas of expertise include culture transformation, competency framework development and organisation design.
Jodie is a founding partner of Red Emu Advisory and has been a driving force in establishing and growing a business which brings people and business together. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and is accredited in a range of human behaviour diagnostics.
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FourFold Associate
Director, NeometricMal blends legal, regulatory and governance expertise to support Boards to be effective stewards and fulfil their responsibilities. His approach arms Boards to align their understanding of their role and deliver sustained value to the organisation’s stakeholders.
During a 20-year commercial litigation career with Herbert Smith Freehills across Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, Mal advised leading organisations in telecommunications, financial services, IT, oil and gas and mining. As Partner and leader of the Dispute Resolution practice in Perth, he became increasingly curious about the substantial costs of failing to cultivate organisational alignment and the drivers of conflict.
These experiences prompted Mal's focus on relational governance. As a lawyer, facilitator, mediator and governance adviser, Mal works with Boards and Executive Teams to strengthen their relational architecture, address the causes of enterprise friction and collaborate more effectively in pursuit of shared purpose. He supports them to be more explicit about their non-negotiables and to design effective governance frameworks that build resilience.
Mal is a member of the Law Society of WA, a graduate of the AICD, a Fellow and board member of Leadership Western Australia and a trained mediator. He has considerable experience as both a Chair and Director on NFP Boards.
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FourFold Consultant
Alex is an experienced executive with over 20 years in legal, regulatory and company secretarial roles. His background spans from top-tier legal practice to founding and growing a successful start-up. He brings a strategic mindset, a deep understanding of governance and risk management, and a proven ability to navigate legal issues and complex regulatory environments.
Alex has held executive and senior leadership roles in law, regulatory affairs and compliance at Sumo Australia, Origin Energy and Simply Energy. He has practised in commercial law at leading law firm Allens Linklaters. He is trusted by colleagues and clients for his astute and pragmatic advice that balances an appreciation of the commercials with an understanding of the material legal and risk considerations.
Alex has deep experience supporting boards and other governing bodies, including by establishing the corporate governance framework, contributing to strategic decisions and managing risks, and undertaking board effectiveness reviews. As a founder in an energy start-up, he also knows what it takes to start and scale a business, establishing and evolving key processes and frameworks so they remain fit-for-purpose.
Alex holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Science from Monash University. He is a lawyer and graduate of the AICD.
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FourFold Associate
Director, Rearn NormanRearn is a consulting psychologist and organisational development expert with 20 years experience working across a range of sectors, including financial services, infrastructure, agriculture, retail, education and biotechnology.
Rearn has spent the last 5 years as an independent consultant advising experienced leaders and leadership teams in multinational corporations and ASX-listed companies, through to smaller businesses navigating growth challenges. Her areas of passion and focus are executive and senior leader development, and strategically-aligned culture transformation.
Rearn is an executive coach helping senior leaders develop their mental complexity to achieve high performance. She is also a sought-after facilitator, partnering with leadership teams and groups to build alignment on strategic and cultural aims. Prior to this, Rearn held roles in boutique and global psychology consultancies and multinationals such as ANZ Banking Group.
Rearn holds a Bachelor of Psychology (ANU), Grad Dip Psych (Deakin University) and Master of Organisational Psychology from Monash University. She is accredited in multiple psychometric tools and is undertaking further development in coaching with Jennifer Garvey Berger and Cultivating Leadership (Growth Edge Coaching). Rearn is a regular contributor on the topic of leadership to many Australian publications including the AFR and BOSS Magazine. Her first leadership book, Unlocked, was published in October 2022.
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FourFold Associate
Director, CATALYST4Peter brings over 30 years of consulting experience to a wide range of public and private organisations within Australasia, establishing himself as a deeply respected and experienced thought leader in the field. He blends research and practice to design engaging and innovative leadership development experiences.
Peter partners with senior leadership teams in public and private context across sectors, including health, financial services, engineering, professional services, energy, agriculture and R&D. Through thoughtfully customised solutions, he helps leadership teams navigate strategic options, team dynamics and complex change.
Peter has been at the forefront of New Zealand’s pre-eminent executive leadership programmes. He is currently the senior executive and facilitator of C-suite executive education for the University of Auckland. He is an experienced coach working alongside leaders as they navigate strategic and interpersonal challenges, along with career and transition planning.
Peter holds a PhD from Massey University. His research exploring executive perceptions of leadership in New Zealand and Australia was highly commended by international expert Barry Posner (co-author of The Leadership Challenge, Credibility, Encouraging the Heart, and the Leadership Practices Inventory™).