Meet our National Executive Committee
2016
National President
National Vice-President
Andrew Rimington
(Victoria)
Wanda Hayes
(Queensland)
Andrew has over 25 years’ experience working for
both Commonwealth and State governments in
senior management roles in the employment,
education & training (EET) program delivery and
policy areas. Andrew also managed a University
Careers Advisory service, had a senior
management role with a private training provider,
as well as a consulting and private practice
working primarily in career transition and
rehabilitation.
Andrew has recently reactivated his private
practice with a focus on career coaching and
workforce development, after a successful 12
years as Senior Policy Manager with the Victorian
Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(VECCI).
Andrew has been involved in many committees,
reference groups, Industry Training Advisory
Boards as well as Ministerial appointments to
advisory boards in employment and education. He
is also currently Director of the Community
Services & Health Industry Skills Council.
Wanda has a strong and abiding commitment to the
growth of the career development profession,
acknowledging that CDAA plays a central and critical
role. She previously served on the NEC from 20092012, initiating the development of CDAA’s
Excellence Framework and Awards program as well
as other membership innovations to promote
professionalism and facilitate resource and
information sharing within the profession.
Wanda’s background includes career development
roles in secondary schools (QLD Department of
Education), community services (National Career
Advice phone line), consulting and corporate HR
(various public and private sector clients). She is
currently working part time in a careers service at a
university (USC), while also continuing to operate
her own private practice, established in 2000.
This breadth of experience across the range of
sectors of career development has given her a
uniquely wide-ranging understanding of the
challenges and rewards associated with working in
the field of career development in all its different
guises.
Meet our National Executive Committee
2016
National Treasurer
Marjolein Bervoets
(Victoria)
Marjolein is the founder and Managing Director
of Career Management Group Pty Ltd. Passionate
about developing employees’ awareness and skills
to manage their own careers, Marjolein and her
team have worked with thousands of employees
affected by redundancy in addition to providing
career strategy, career decision, career
empowerment programs and executive mentoring
and coaching services.
Her background prior to creating her own business
in 2001 was in senior executive Finance and
Leadership roles; primarily engaged in
organisational mergers, downsizing, outsourcing
and restructures. Marjolein was also a Director at
DBM for two years.
Marjolein is also a Board Member of four other
organisation; three of which she is chairing.
On a personal note, she rides a motorbike for fun,
loves snow skiing and lives in Melbourne.
National Secretary
Jo Shambler
(Queensland)
Jo has been a member of CDAA since June 2005. She
has been serving on the NEC since 2011 and has
taken on the role of National Secretary in May 2013.
She has been a member of the Queensland
Committee, where she undertook the roles of Vice
President and General Committee Member.
She has worked in the Queensland Government for
many years, predominantly in the area of Human
Resource Management (generalist and
Organisational Development) but also in areas as
diverse as Business Improvement and Litigation
Management. Jo is the founder and Director of
Power Careers and Consulting, a small private
practice specialising in career coaching,
outplacement, corporate training and RTO
participant course coaching, which she set up in
2007. She holds a Master of Career Development
and a Bachelor of Education (Adult and Workplace
Education). She is passionate about career
development and raising its profile as a key to
helping individuals achieve their full potential.
Meet our National Executive Committee
2016
General Committee Member
Allan Moyle
(Victoria)
Allan works in private practice and is passionate
about career development as a concept and promotes this extensively through the ongoing
development of his clients and members of the
CDAA.
Allan has well over twenty years’ experience in
providing career development support to
individuals and diverse occupational groups.
Today Allan works on a range of activities including
career development/transition for adult workers,
training, outplacement, classification reviews and
documentation for clients in Government, Private
and Education sectors.
Allan has been a Professional member of the CDAA
since 1997 and has supported the Victorian
Commit- tee for some years being involved in the
planning of events such as the CDAA presence at
Career Expos. In 2012, Allan was elected Victorian
Vice President and then became Victorian
President for 2013 and 2014.
General Committee Member
Helen Strickland
(South Australia)
Helen is the founder of Strickland Solutions, a business which provides a range of business and career
management consulting services.
She has strong management and leadership experience in education, career development, employment, regional development and community
organisations. Helen has extensive Board experience
in regional health, education, training and regional
development settings, and currently in the banking
industry. She has leadership experience in schools,
including as a principal in primary and secondary
school settings.
Prior to creating her own business Helen initiated
and managed the Career Development Centre in
Mount Gambier in 2006, which has become the
model for community based career development in
South Australia. She is particularly interested in
building community understanding and
commitment to a culture of career development,
with a broad perspective of the need to engage and
support all age groups in man- aging their career, so
that they can manage multiple career transitions.
Meet our National Executive Committee
2016
General Committee Member
Carolyn Alchin
(Queensland)
General Committee Member
Rebecca Fraser
(Victoria)
Carolyn Alchin is a Career Development
Professional, experienced business person, and
qualified teacher. She is a practiced presenter,
focussing her resources and development on
engaging diverse populations in career
development exploration and understanding.
Rebecca’s career in this sector has developed from
early roles in project & change management. The
skills developed allow her to design and facilitate
programs to support business strategy,
organisation-al planning and personnel
development.
She has more than 10 years’ experience across
Career Development, Industry and Youth
Education.
A passionate communicator, Rebecca facilitates
workshops for organisations, including City of Melbourne, GM Holden and CPA Australia, across all
aspects of career growth, leadership, team success,
change, resilience and career development. Her
corporate experience and ongoing engagement
allows her to assist individuals and organisations
pre/post redundancy, during transition and for
career development.
Carolyn, who is employed at the University of
Southern Queensland, now focuses her learning
and research on supporting individuals and groups
to manage and build their career potential through
employability and self-efficacy.
She is passionate about community engagement
and connecting with industry, and community
groups. She is currently working as a Career
Development Practitioner at the University of
Southern Queensland.
As an industry specialist, Rebecca works
extensively with leading industry associations
driving professionalism and consumer awareness
As the CDAA VIC Divisional President, Rebecca
drives understanding of career management and
alignment to industry standards.
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