Sentis

Facilitator

Kristi joined Sentis in 2011 as a facilitator in the Brisbane based team. She is a registered Occupational Therapist in Australia, and holds a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, Post Graduate Diploma in Occupational Therapy Practice and a Graduate Certificate in Adult Learning and Training.

Kristi has a clinical background working in mental health within New Zealand and the United Kingdom, with positions in government organisations and more recently through her own private practice. Clinically she has drawn on a wide range of psychological interventions (Psycho-education, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, goal setting) alongside her holistic, occupational focus in therapy to facilitate well-being in rural and urban communities. Kristi has also worked in adult education as a lecturer at the School of Occupational Therapy in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Kristi has a passion for preventative and proactive intervention to avoid the 'ambulance at the bottom of the cliff' approach to health and safety.

Global Operations Manager

Mathew is the Regional Manager for our Western Region and is responsible for overseeing all of our work in Western Australia, Northern Territory, North America, South America and Africa. Since joining Sentis in 2006 Mathew has held a number of positions within Sentis and throughout that time has delivered training, coaching and cultural change management services to a range of construction, mining and utility organisations across Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, New Zealand and Europe. Mathew is a registered psychologist and with 11 years in the field has worked across a range of areas 19 including forensic, counselling, clinical and organisational settings, with a strong focus on behavioural and attitudinal change. Mathew also brings a diverse background having worked throughout the residential construction industry and in hospitality management prior to becoming a psychologist. 

Facilitator Manager-America (Acting)

David hails from Canada, and has been supporting our global clients via cutting edge, neuroscience based safety education and coaching for the past 5 years. David's role also includes providing post-training leadership coaching, and teams-level in field support, that effectively brings training concepts alive within client organisations to facilitate effective organisational change and safety performance excellence.

David's education has focused on the study of industrial-organisational and counseling psychology at the graduate level. This along with his experience as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, guides his person-based safety interventions with senior executive teams, frontline leaders, and field level work groups within the heavy industry sector.

David maintains strong working alliances within the nuclear energy, oil and gas, construction, mining, smelting, pipeline fabrication/installation, and explosives industries. He assists clients across the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. David is a member of the American Society for Training and Development, and has presented at several international safety conferences.

David enjoys photography and exploring the outdoors in Colorado and internationally, with his family. Professionally, David enjoys co-creating world class safety results through applied neuro-anatomy including enhancing the effectiveness of leadership teams, safety meetings and orientations, and risk assessment practices. David also dedicates time to writing educational articles regarding adult learning best practices including HSE learning durability, and effective ways to create meaningful, memorable, and effective health and safety interventions

Project Manager

Peter joined Sentis in 2008 as a Facilitator for the Brisbane team, and made the transition to Project Manager in late 2010. Peter holds a Masters degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology, and is a Registered Psychologist in Australia. Prior to joining Sentis, Peter worked as an applied practitioner, consulting with a wide variety of clients ranging from athletes to individuals within the corporate health sector. Peter's goal is to use evidence-based practice to assist people to develop the psychological skills that can assist them in achieving peak performance, emotional resilience, and overall well-being. In particular, Peter is invested in learning about new therapeutic approaches and their application to ZIP. Overall, Peter's strong interest in health and well-being lends to his passion for facilitating people through their journey towards a more rich, meaningful life. With regards to his Project Manager role, Peter is responsible for ensuring that our clients are continually delivered exceptional services. This includes everything from maintaining quality client relationships to the development of strategic rollout plans which assist the client towards the goal of zero incidents in the workplace. By combining his knowledge of performance psychology with the core values of Sentis, Peter enjoys the challenge of delivering ZIP to achieve his goal of empowering clients to ensure that they consistently make gains towards optimal health and safety outcomes. In terms of personal growth, Peter enjoys challenging himself through the avenues of music, photography, and various sporting endeavours.

Facilitator

Nadia is a registered Psychologist and has completed her honours and a postgraduate Diploma in Education at the University of Western Australia. Prior to coming to Sentis in 2006, Nadia had worked as a Psychologist across a number of speciality disciplines. Nadia worked as a School Psychologist with the Department of Education, Western Australia and assisted various educational and government agencies to achieve their behaviour change goals for individual clients. Nadia's role as a group facilitator in a highly regarded inpatient mental health unit saw her further develop her experiences and skill as a psychology consultant. Through this work, Nadia has gained a reputation among her peers as a consummate professional who is a highly competent consultant in the field of cognitive-behavioural psychology. Nadia has brought her skills and experiences to Sentis where she is primarily involved in the client team and supports our clients can achieve their safety and leadership goals, individually and as an organisation. Nadia has lots of energy and passion for her work with her team and this is reflected by her drive to constantly improve her skills and knowledge in leadership and safety in the heavy industry.

Facilitator

Melissa is a Psychologist, and joined Sentis as a Facilitator in November 2008. Prior to this, Melissa gained valuable clinical experience in a variety of alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment settings, including a residential rehabilitation facility and an opioid treatment clinic.

Melissa's interest in the AOD field has seen her gaining expertise in the assessment and treatment of clients with substance abuse difficulties, contributing to the evaluation and development of therapeutic programs, as well as publishing her research project in the Journal of Substance Use. Melissa has furthered her skills by running her own private practice, as well as working for the Child and Youth Mental Health Service which dealt with the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with severe and complex mental health issues, and their families.

Melissa brings a passion for helping others to effect change in their lives, a desire to learn and grow, and to enjoy this journey in life.

Business Development Manager

Elizabeth Prazeres has a Bachelor's in Psychology from the California State University of Long Beach, a Master's in Environmental Management with coursework in Environmental, Health and Safety from the University of Denver, and over 15 years of business development and leadership experience. Elizabeth started with Sentis in 2010 and works out of the Denver office.

Before joining Sentis, Elizabeth spent several years in the San Francisco area in business development and management. A promotion took Elizabeth to Chicago where she led a regional team in the Midwest region of the US. A desire for warmer weather and mountains brought Elizabeth to Colorado in 2004 where she continued working in business development and leadership in Talent Management strategy and technology. In 2007, she joined a consulting firm as a senior consultant. Her work at this firm included HR strategy and service delivery, change management, and talent management consulting.

Elizabeth spends her free time with family and friends, enjoying the outdoors, and travelling.

Project Manager

Lauren is a Registered Psychologist and holds a Master of Counselling Psychology degree from Curtin University. In joining Sentis as a Project Manager, Lauren gets to apply her passion for organisational change, health, safety and wellbeing in the workplace and her knowledge of change and the brain to our client's safety culture change goals.

Prior to working for Sentis, Lauren spent six years in counselling roles in both health and corporate settings as well as in private practice. Most recently Lauren was working in a private practice providing counselling and coaching to individuals, couples and adolescents to assist them to make changes in their lives to achieve their mental and relationship health and wellbeing goals. Lauren takes a positive psychology, solution focused approach to her work with individuals inspiring them to take a new look at their challenges. Lauren has also worked extensively in the gambling sector providing both problem gambling counselling and creating responsible gambling policy as well as facilitating and coaching staff in responsible gambling programs for major gambling providers.

Lauren loves working closely with her clients to apply her ZIP and project management capabilities to effectively integrate ZIP into client's safety culture and working with senior leaders across sites to lead their people in having a safe place to work. Whenever she gets the chance, you will find her underground, in a truck or at a tool box talk ensuing she understand her client industry and getting her hands dirty!

Sentinel Specialist

Prior to joining the Sentis, Jamie worked for more than 15 years with young people, families and adults within clinical settings. He has formerly held the position of Clinical Director for three Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment facilities, in addition to lecturing for the University of Queensland.

During his time in private practice, Jamie consulted with many organisations, providing clinical supervision, skill based training programs and clinical program design, including the development of an award winning program for the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre.

Jamie has now been a Sentis Facilitator for over 5 years and combines his extensive clinical experience with his knowledge of safety psychology to assists participants towards the goal of enhancing their capacity to improve their personal safety and general well-being.

Contract and Business Improvement Specialist

Esther is our Contract and Business Improvement Specialist. In her role, Esther oversees the global management of client related contracts, Sentis' intellectual property and trademarking. Esther also manages a number of business improvement projects across Sentis globally. Esther originally studied Information Technology and Commerce at Murdoch University in Perth, and worked as an IT Consultant for six years at the beginning of her professional career. Looking for a change in direction, Esther then embarked on a path that saw her gain a broad range of international experiences across numerous industries in senior management positions. This included working as a Sales Manager for an international property company in Spain and being appointed as the Managing Director of an international language school in Zurich. Esther subsequently returned to Perth and was selected to be the CEO of a renowned architectural company before joining Sentis in 2008. Since then, Esther has worked in a number of senior positions at Sentis and also completed her Masters of Leadership and Management at Curtin University's Graduate School of Business. She continues to be involved with Curtin University as both a mentor to MBA/MLM students and occasional speaker.

Business Development Reporting Manager & Facilitator Manager-Americas

Michelle completed her qualifications and research at the University of Queensland and is registered with the Psychology Board of Australia. Before joining Sentis in 2007, Michelle practiced psychology in the non-for-profit and government sectors, providing specialist assessment, diagnosis, therapy and education in developmental psychology. While working with education departments, community groups, non-government agencies and individuals, Michelle became increasingly interested in the barriers and predictors to change at the individual and systems level.

It was while indulging her passion for international travel and culture that Michelle decided to make the shift to the consulting sector, to integrate her research, assessment and clinical skills with her interests in systems change. Since starting with Sentis as a Facilitator in Brisbane, Michelle has filled roles in product development, project management, internal culture development, coaching, and team management, and has brought that experience with her to her business development role in Denver, Colorado. Michelle skis the Rocky Mountains when she can, but is most often found at airports, looking for an adventure.

Chief Scientist

Autumn Krauss is a Chief Scientist at Sentis. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organisational Psychology with a Specialisation in Occupational Health Psychology from Colorado State University.

In her role at Sentis, Autumn partners with clients to conduct research demonstrating the impact of Sentis' services and programs. She also collaborates with academicians to present and publish scientific research related to occupational safety and health. Prior to being at Sentis, Autumn was a Senior Scientist in Kronos' Hiring Solutions Group. Autumn has authored several journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries as well as conducting numerous conference presentations regarding occupational safety and health, personnel selection, and employee onboarding. In addition, Autumn has been the recipient of research grants from funding institutions such as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Colorado Injury Control Research Center, the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (SIOP), and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Foundation.

Autumn is passionate about local sustainable eating. She enjoys cooking good food and eating it with good friends and family.

Facilitator

As a facilitator within Sentis, Charlotte brings with her a background in Psychology, Coaching, Neuro Linguistic Programing and practical experiences within the heavy industry. Having had experiences directly within the Safety Division of a top tier company, Charlotte has also rolled out the National Graduate Program, Leadership Programs and Coaching Workshops for front line leaders across 11 different business units.

Charlotte's practical experiences involve onsite coaching with front line leaders spending time on many different sites. These sites include; underground tunnels, railways, open cut mines, refurbishment of hospitals, desalination plants and aviation workshops. Such exposure coupled with experience within 'people development', Charlotte can relate well to people's experiences on various work sites.

Facilitator

Franc brings a diverse history of experience to the Sentis team. His former employment included facilitating a support group for male Sexual Abuse survivors, counselling clients connected to a Residential Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation facility, lecturing at Bond University in Ethics & Professional Issues in Counselling, and also looking after the well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS at the Queensland AIDS Council. Franc also ran a Private Counselling practice that catered for clients with issues of Parenting, Conflict Resolution, Behaviour Modification, Abuse, Addictions, Youth, all with a focus on empowerment and self-determination. All these roles considered and encouraged the health, safety, and well-being of the people involved so a switch to Sentis is an obvious progression.

BBus(IR&HR), BSc(Psych), GDipCom, FAIM.

Chief Executive Officer

With a diverse industry background spanning education, retail, mining, construction and distribution, Chandra has built her professional career around the application of psychological concepts to global business issues. Her success has relied on her ability to connect with ‘untapped’ human potential in organisations such as Rio Tinto, Fluor Daniel, OPSM, and Campbell Brothers. In 2009, she led a business of 380 employees to achieve a Lost Time Injury rate of zero, down from 19 two years earlier. Chandra has been involved in the design and implementation of customised business solutions such as a worldwide executive profiling diagnostic, a leadership enhancement program designed to assist organisations to deal with the lack of qualified resources in the mining industry, as well as the design and facilitation of a cultural development program aimed at improving holistic business performance in the resources sector. Since joining Sentis, Chandra has increased the number of psychologists by 40% and has implemented a global business model aimed at expanding the service offering of Sentis beyond neurosafety and in to the fields of cultural enhancement, leadership development and corporate wellbeing. She is a passionate leader who thrives on client success and the ability to accommodate cultural awareness and complex business challenges in to the responsiveness of Sentis’ solutions.

Facilitator Manager

Chris joined the Sentis team in 2011 in the position of facilitator manager. His focus is to ensure Sentis provides cliental with the successful delivery of services & programs through overall management of a diverse group of facilitators. This will include maintaining dynamic relationships with facilitators & clients as well as many other teams within Sentis.

Prior to joining Sentis, Chris managed to develop a capacious range of skill sets throughout various private & corporate sectors. His most recent career developments were in the corporate sector as an operations manager of 100+ staff within the Hospitality and Distribution industry. Chris has voluminous experience in areas including, sales management, financial based statistical reporting, contract management, logistics, business operations, man management, as well as OH&S compliance management.

In the five years prior to starting with Sentis Chris scrutinized the amalgamation of two large scale distribution warehouses into one facility whilst also maintaining new and existing business with key clients that had specific, large scale operational and logistical

requirements. Chris has appreciated the opportunity afforded to him within Sentis & looks forward to delivering a dynamic team of world class facilitators whilst maintaining a strong client focus.

Chris enjoys taking time out to enjoy the finer things of life such as family time, surfing, cycling, & walking his two mini foxies – Kirra & Zeppelin. 

Facilitator

Martin is an enthusiastic bilingual safety psychology professional who applies his curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking to assist clients in achieving personal and professional breakthroughs. At Sentis, Martin brings his humour, open-mindedness, and result-oriented approach to deliver mind-changing ZIP training programs in English and French across the globe. He holds a master's degree in industrial and organisational psychology from Saint Mary's University and brings a strong understanding of how organisational systems influence individuals and vice-versa. He has designed and facilitated various undergraduate courses in psychology and management, at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Concordia University.

Prior to joining Sentis in 2011, Martin worked as a guidance counsellor where he designed and facilitated career development training workshops and coached individuals in defining exciting career plans and conducting effective job search. Over the years, he has developed an expertise focused on training facilitation, training design, psychological assessment, career coaching, and organizational studies and design.

Martin's vision is to contribute to the creation of "Aha" moments in people's lives to enable them to acquire new perspectives in their personal and professional development.

Business Development & Reporting Manager

Bryce is Business Development & Reporting Manager at Sentis and is one of our most senior and experienced Client Team members. A registered psychologist, Bryce has worked in the field of psychology for over seven years, predominantly in forensic and organisational settings. Bryce’s professional history has focused creating attitudinal and behavioural change through group and individual interventions. Since joining Sentis in 2007, Bryce has facilitated the Zero Incident Process (ZIP) training programs across Australia, and in Africa and Europe, with a particular focus on safety leadership development. As a Project Manager he has worked closely with a range of resource industry and construction clients to assist them to achieve individual and organisational change, and establish safer cultures within their businesses.