Lee Ridoutt
Principal Consultant

The Director of Human Capital Alliance since 1989, Lee has broad expertise in analysing the services provided by both individual organisations and whole industries and assessing the appropriateness of service delivery to meet customer needs. His specific expertise lies in working with, managing and analysing the health sector, to design workforce plans to suit supply and demand determinants.

Michelle Strickland
Senior Consultant

Michelle has over 15 years management experience, and has worked extensively in vocational education and training, employment and labour market services, human resources, rehabilitation services and housing. Michelle’s consulting experience focuses on working with public and not-for-profit organisations in the areas of education, health and community services.  Michelle specialises in research and policy advice, business and strategic planning, evaluation, change management and productivity improvement and project management. 

Joanne Bagnulo
Project Manager

Joanne is HCAs senior project manager, and focuses on tracking and monitoring project operations and budgets.  She has ten years of project management, teaching, human resources and marketing experience in education and humanitarian settings in Africa and Australia.

Maggie Montecastro
Project Officer

Maggie’s background is in quality assurance, management, training, human resources and marketing both in the public and private sectors within Australia and overseas.  At HCA she was able to utilise and put into good use the wealth of experience she acquired in the various sectors she was previously involved in.

Victoria Pilbeam
Project Officer

Victoria joined HCA in 2007 and since then has been involved in projects relating to suicide prevention and mental health within a workplace setting for the OzHelp Foundation. This involves assisting OzHelp to evolve into a national organisation and researching new industry applications for their programs. Victoria has also undertaken roles in research projects for the Department of Human Services and other HCA clients.

Sally Ali
Research Analyst

Sally is a qualified social scientist whose previous work varies from required research to database management as well as tender preparation, participating in focus groups, designing the Skills Assessment Survey and conducting interviews.  Whilst she has worked for HCA for a short period of time, Sally has undertaken roles in many projects such as those for the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health and Ageing.