NOW ACTUALLY - Key Persons
Outside of Now Actually, Belinda loves spending time with her daughter, rocking out with her guitar, and riding BMX.
Advisor Belinda comes from a strong background in HR, and is passionate about her work. She is especially interested in the professional services, legal, accounting, and education sectors.
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- Digital Marketing Specialist
Digital Marketing Specialist Felicity has experience as a Content and Creative Strategist, and now handles digital marketing for Now Actually. Self-taught when it comes to marketing and content creation, she relishes the opportunity to learn more skills in her role with Now Actually.
Advisor Jacqueline is a true HR generalist coming from a variety of backgrounds. She is passionate about simplifying HR processes and making them easy to understand and implement for business owners.
Jenna Paulin - Founder, Managing Director
Jenna doesn't like sitting at home and loves to travel. She enjoys new cultures and exploring different locations. It's safe to say she's happiest with a trip booked. Her partner enjoys camping and as a result they often spend their weekends finding a new place to go. If she can't get away, she enjoys going on mini adventures with family and friends. And if that's not enough, she's kept busy chasing around her young daughter.
Founder & Managing Director Jenna has built a successful and prominent career in Human Resources and Human Resource Management, having worked across a diverse group of industries including a range of SME and multi-national global businesses.
Advisor Jess is an experienced HR Coordinator with a diverse skill set and knowledge base gained from working within corporate and creative industries for small and large businesses alike. Jess has a love for learning and enjoys sharing knowledge with her clients to empower them to establish, implement, and maintain best practise HR processes.
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- Recruitment Partner Joanna Is Driven by Helping Organisations to Grow and Has Created Great Recruitment Campaigns That Get Results.
Joanna is driven by helping organisations to grow and has created great recruitment campaigns that get results.
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- First - Aid Training Partner Paediatric Emergency Nurse and Founder
Working as an Emergency Nurse in a trauma centre, Nicole has experienced first-hand the importance of well developed first aid knowledge and skills. Devastatingly, witnessing the impacts of a lack of knowledge and skills.
Nicole is an avid learner, always furthering her own knowledge, and ‘keeping her finger on the pulse' on all thing's health and education, ensuring that information in Rhythm's courses is evidence-based and up to date.
Nicole's qualifications to date include a Bachelor of Nursing, Bachelor of Applied Science (Psychology), Graduate Certificate of Nursing Practice (Paediatrics), Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE40116), Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS), and I recently became an Accredited Nurse Immuniser.
First- Aid Training Partner Working as an Emergency Nurse in a trauma centre, Nicole has experienced first-hand the importance of well developed first aid knowledge and skills. Devastatingly, witnessing the impacts of a lack of knowledge […]
When not helping clients at Now Actually, Olivia spends her time with family and friends. Always looking for ways to be active, she loves to exercise and enjoys having outdoor adventures.
Advisor Olivia is a true HR generalist. With experience in several industries, Olivia looks at ways to give business owners their time back. Simplification is core to the work she does.
Job Titles:
- Client Engagement Manager
Client Engagement Manager Renee leads the team of Advisors at Now Actually alongside providing advisory service to her clients. She is a driven individual skilled in generalist HR advice, recruitment, HR administration, remuneration, employee engagement, and industrial law. A strong human resources professional, Renee has experience across a variety of industries and HR disciplines to ensure effective utilisation of human resources and people solutions to achieve your business objectives.
Sarah is an Advisor in the Now Actually team. She's worked in several industries, and has an Arts degree, Primary Education Masters, and a Horticulture Diploma. In HR, Sarah enjoys meeting great people and learning about their businesses, experiences, and passions. She finds it rewarding when she can provide HR solutions to time-poor business owners, giving them back their time to look after their businesses and their people.
With four teenagers in a sports-mad home, you'll usually find Sarah driving them around for training, games and competitions. She is a Western Bulldogs fanatic and sports lover in general, loves water sports, spending time on the Murray River and pottering in her edible garden. As a family, the Flannery's enjoy volunteering and have some of their most amazing and rewarding experiences together when we are helping others.
Advisor Sarah is committed to helping businesses and their people achieve a work-life balance and reduction of workplace stress by implementing strong process and being proactive. Sarah's approach is to support all levels of an organisation with the tools and initiatives she recommends.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Founder of Ready Resilience
- Ready Resilience Founder
- Resilience and Wellbeing Partner
Wendy Jenkins was given two years to live … over 15 years ago.
Ready Resilience founder Wendy Jenkins is no stranger to change and adversity. As a newlywed looking forward to her next chapter, Wendy was diagnosed with a life-threatening lung condition and given two years to live without a rare and risky transplant procedure. While lucky enough to match with a donor, the transplant left Wendy with ongoing complex health issues, which prevented her from having children, shortened her life expectancy, and led to severe depression and PTSD.
Determined to overcome mental illness and improve her wellbeing, Wendy discovered a strong passion for neuroscience-based resilience and the way our nervous system and brain work to give us mental strength. She believes no matter what challenges and adversity you face - the way you respond is key.
More than 15 years later, Wendy is a certified resilience coach and resilience first aid instructor, accredited mental health first aider, successful entrepreneur, sought-after speaker and a strong advocate for advancing forward - not just bouncing back. A highly experienced human resources practitioner, Wendy is dedicated to empowering forward-thinking businesses and individuals to be their best through neuroscience-based resilience training.
Wendy also co-founded the Lungitude Foundation and was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2022 ‘for service to community health, particularly lung transplant research'.
Resilience and Wellbeing Partner Wendy is the Founder of Ready Resilience supporting forward-thinking businesses with neuroscience-based wellbeing and resilience training and interactive resources.