Our client's success is at the heart of our mission.

Madeleine Culbert, the former CEO, transformed IPAA NSW from an organisation facing significant challenges during the pandemic into a thriving association with renewed relevance and substantial impact. Leveraging partnerships within the Sprouta ecosystem, she successfully navigated the complexities of the pandemic and the rapidly evolving public sector landscape, driving growth, enhancing member value, and ensuring strong financial stability.

Her vision, dedication, and exceptional ability to engage stakeholders and build trusted relationships have laid the foundation for a bright and sustainable future for an organisation essential to supporting those who serve the people of NSW.

Adam King is a Senior Manager at Amazon Japan looking after Executive Development across the operations business worldwide.  Arriving in Japan 21 years ago Adam fell into a career within the People, Performance and Culture space and never left.

Over the years Adam has drawn on three key elements of trust, acceptance, and vulnerability to create strong connections and build a thriving career within Japan.

Talitha Vinall is a HR Professional with ActewAGL. Talitha is passionate about making a difference for individuals, teams and organisations. Talitha enjoys partnering with leaders to create and implement workforce strategies that work for the business, are inclusive, values-based and performance driven.

Corn is highly passionate about working with people and finds excitement in helping organisations create long-term performance improvements while supporting individual leaders to grow.

Corn possesses 8 years of client service on organisational topics across industries that includes the Public Sector, Telecommunications, Agriculture, Energy, Oil and Gas, and Basic Materials.

Thomas has enjoyed a career of over 17 years in Sales, Marketing, Category Management and people development with Kimberly-Clark, Purina, Nestle, Coca-Cola Amatil, Blackmores, Canon and Novartis along with a number of Non-Governmental organisations in the UK , Hong Kong and Australia.

Thomas is an ICF Accredited Associate Certified Coach and sit on the divisional council of the Australian Institute of Training & Development.

Simon Lavercombre, heads People and Culture within Goodman’s Australian business, managing talent acquisition, learning and development, wellbeing, performance, reward and talent management. He has also spearheaded several successful professional development programs within the business. Working at Goodman since 2007, he holds over 20 years of people and culture experience.

Forrest Lindekens is the Head of Movement at Vega Factor. Forrest, along with his partners at Vega Factor, are on a mission to unlock human potential at scale, to build the world's most adaptive organisations, and to fundamentally upgrade the tools and techniques we use to build great cultures. Vega Factor transform organisations through motivation and this results in high performance.

Mark Eggers is the Co-Founder and Head of Sales at Yarno, where he’s on a mission to revolutionise customer service and sales through innovative learning and development. With a deep understanding of the challenges in modern workplace training, Mark helped develop Yarno, a gamified training platform designed to change employee behaviour and enhance performance.

Recognising the time constraints faced by today’s workforce, Mark and his team created a flexible learning solution that delivers targeted, daily quizzes directly to employees' devices, ensuring that learning is effective, engaging, and convenient. Yarno’s approach helps businesses cultivate capable, safer, and more engaged employees who excel in their roles.

With over 10 years of experience in sales and digital project management, Mark values the power of strong relationships and believes that listening is key to solving business problems. His background includes managing teams at Rolling Hospitality and BBL, where he honed his project management and people skills.