Helga is a connector. She is passionate about empowerment, engagement and connecting talk to action. She revels in supporting individuals, organisations and communities to make the world a better place.

Helga specialises in strategy and planning, stakeholder engagement and capacity building. Building on her extensive leadership roles in government, not-for-profit and membership organisations, Helga is a dynamic facilitator, a supportive and challenging coach, an effective trainer and an engaging speaker.

Helga is a Board member of the Royal Women’s Hospital and Social Housing Victoria and a former Director of YWCA Victoria and the Community Services and Health Industry Training Advisory Board. She wants to see more diversity and gender equality on boards and therefore developed a group coaching program to encourage women to get on, and stay on, Boards.

Initially trained and practising as a lawyer, her previous roles include Chief Executive Officer of Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project, Assistant Secretary of the Australian Services Union and Facilitator at Sustainability Victoria.

Her memberships include Australian Institute of Company Directors, International Coaching Federation, Fundraising Institute of Australia and the International Association of Public Participation.

She loves twitter and LinkedIn so feel free to engage with her there.