Nicola has a passion for people and creating meaningful organisational change. She is a qualified change practitioner, with experience in project delivery, organisational design and business transformation.

With a background in HR, Nicola cares about the people and culture element of change, and approaches change management from a strategic, outcome focused perspective.  

Nicola believes that

Matt is a project and change management professional with over 15 years of experience in multiple industries including the public sector, regulatory compliance and health. He has delivered projects with direct interface and benefits to the Tasmanian community and has a passion for

Jess is a professional all-rounder within the consultant space. She has over 15 years experience in multiple areas of expertise including leadership, project and change management, business analysis and strategic planning.

Jess has led projects through to successful delivery as the accountable business leader, with a key emphasis on managing the change impacts and process to ensure effective adoption.  Jess is all about seeing the bigger picture; she likes to jump into a project and

Kate is a highly experienced project professional with key skills in project management and business analysis. She’s worked on a variety of projects primarily within the energy and renewables industry, supporting diverse asset and infrastructure projects, and has enabled transitions to new technologies and service models.

Kate places a high value on using her experience to act as the effective conduit between business units and the organisations IT teams. She is a forward-thinking and innovative consultant who places significant importance on partnering with projects from concept to delivery. She believes in and has a track record of

Usama is an intuitive and dynamic business analyst professional with over 15 years experience across a range of different industries.

Usama’s played a pivotal role in the implementation of critical projects with complex technology and process change. His years of experience has built his expertise within a vast array of software and business analysis tools, allowing him to be a highly valuable, versatile, detail-oriented consultant.

Paula is a public relations and communications professional with more than 25 years working in media and internal and external communications.

Paula is passionate about using storytelling to build a committed and engaged audience. She uses this ability to plan and execute strategic communication activities, engage with internal and external stakeholders, and liaise with Boards and CEO’s. She creates and manages content to suit business requirements and was the communications lead for a transformative restructure at Hydro Tasmania.

Josh is an expert Change and Project Consultant with over 10 years of experience within the Utilities, Health, and Education Sectors.

Josh loves to bring fresh perspectives to challenges, challenging the status quo to drive measurable improvements and change. He possesses experience in business improvement, Lean, Agile, and Design Thinking, all of which contribute to his approach. For example, his successful implementation of a new service management operating model at the University of Tasmania led to improved service quality, enhanced operational efficiency, and increased overall satisfaction among stakeholders. Josh has well-developed stakeholder management skills and excels in exercising influence with senior leaders and executives to achieve positive business outcomes.

Bec is a transformation professional with 15 years experience working in a multitude of business sectors, across a variety of roles including organisational change management and business analysis.

Bec prides herself on her ability to translate business processes into a practical understanding at the individual role level, and the clear change impact. She applies effective methodology to project implementations, ensuring successful delivery through purposeful stakeholder engagement and meaningful communications.

Bec brings fun and laughs to any team she is a part of and makes a very valuable consultant.

Sue is an experienced finance professional with over 20 years experience across private and government sectors. She has demonstrated her ability to run and coordinate multiple projects concurrently, develop business strategies and manage team members.

Sue is a valuable coach and mentor to others. Adaptable and intuitive, Sue takes pride in producing outputs to an excellent standard.

Matthew is a senior manager with extensive experience across a range of industry sectors. His core strengths are derived from knowledge and experience in the application of IT service management and project management disciplines.

Matthew is well regarded as a trouble-shooter who can utilise practical experience to guide and mentor clients to successful business outcomes. He thrives on the more challenging projects and believes that:

He has extensive project delivery experience, both as a project manager and as a leading consultant with critical project outcome accountabilities. Matthew has performed in variety of leadership roles over the past 25+ years, including the management of successful teams from 3 to 100+ staff.

Robert is an accomplished ICT professional with twenty years of cross-industry business and technology experience. He has a proven talent for transforming theory into solutions that deliver programs of work with real-world benefits for organisations from small Tasmanian businesses to global enterprises. His robust client portfolio includes the National Australia Bank, Macquarie Group, SAI Global, RACQ, Transend Networks, Aurora Energy, the Tasmanian Government, the Tasmanian Walking Company, and other local Tasmanian businesses.

Robert values contributing to the community and industry; he’s volunteered in roles including AEMO's IT Steering Committee Data Management Working Group; the GovHack organising committee; and the Australian Computer Society, where he held state and national executive roles.

Shane is a senior project delivery professional with over 20 years experience of successful project delivery and consulting with PwC, IBM, Synateq, and as an independent contractor; prior to joining GSD in 2016.

Shane has managed complex projects in a variety of business environments across a wide range of industries and product sets, including system implementations and upgrades, software development, and business transformations. He has valuable expertise across all phases of the project lifecycle, and his experience demonstrates his versatility; from project managing a software implementation for the Department of Premier and Cabinet, to being responsible for the test management of the Triple Zero Migration Project for the Department of Police, Fire & Emergency, Shane will add value to any role within your project delivery.

Chief Executive Officer, Esther Kuiters is an experienced senior executive with global project and multi-site services delivery experience for leading organisations in Tasmania, interstate and overseas. She brings over 25 years of experience in strategic planning, business operations, project management, human resources, ESG and service delivery design. Passionate about empowering businesses, Esther has significant expertise in consulting, digital transformation and growth agendas.

A seasoned professional driven by an unwavering passion for business empowerment, Esther collaborates closely with organisational leaders to formulate agile strategies to scale, reform and navigate dynamic market landscapes. With an entrepreneurial mind-set, Esther excels in co-creating business solutions with stakeholders to ensure GSD initiatives deliver real work change and tangible outcomes for Tasmanians. Her mantra is:

Co-founder and Chair, Kerrie Mazengarb is a leading specialist in organisational and strategic transformation change within Tasmania. She has over 30 years' experience in leadership roles within major business initiatives, strategic reviews, and transformation projects across many and varied industries. Kerrie is a map maker, and sense maker, who is founded in purpose, and passionate about how businesses and their people can step into new futures and challenges by collaboration, co-creation and people centred design.

Kerrie loves work that disrupts whole systems, and challenges leaders to lead through ambiguity and change. Through her skilled perception of holistic change, understanding of operating environments and stakeholder management, Kerrie ensures meaningful and lasting change transformation is achieved.

Kerrie is passionately Tasmanian, and believes we can build a truly amazing future for all Tasmanians, in all aspects of life, and ensure a positive future for our community, allowing them to thrive for generations to come.

Co-founder and Director, John Mazengarb created GSD Advisors in 2015 with his partner Kerrie, with the aim of supporting the Tasmanian community and consulting professionals.  Under the GSD banner John has assisted with high impact, local projects including the implementation of an Emergency Services Computer Aided Dispatch system which integrated critical emergency services in Tasmania into a shared system for greater emergency response capability and community safety.  

John is a highly regarded consultant with over 30 years experience in project delivery and business transformation across various industries, and as an independent advisor; assisting public and private sector organisations in Tasmania, interstate and overseas. John describes himself as:

He is a former board member and National president of the Governance Institute of Australia and currently holds non-executive director roles with Spirit Super and the Public Trustee, Tasmania.