Inventor of practical methodologies and a highly sought-after facilitator, Jess navigates complexity with comfort and helps her clients to clarify their desired outcomes and how to get there.

Jess has over 25 years’ experience in evaluating and designing social change initiatives in Australia and overseas. She is passionate about developing real-world evaluation and strategy for social justice and sustainability. In particular, she works with systems change interventions, large-scale strategy and social innovation.

In 2018, Jess received the Australian Evaluation Society’s Outstanding Contribution to Evaluation Award. Among her many achievements, she co-authored the Most Significant Change (MSC) guide alongside Dr Rick Davies, which is now translated into 12 different languages. More recently, she invented Collaborative Outcomes Reporting (COR), a collaborative form of impact evaluation.

Jess is an active mum with two teenage boys. In a quiet moment, she loves reading science fiction and long-distance running.

Carina Calzoni is passionate about program design, measurement and evaluation. She has nearly 20 years professional evaluation experience within government and consulting to governments and not-for-profit organisations across a wide range of sectors and levels of complexity.

With qualifications in Applied and Environmental Science as well a Masters in Evaluation, Carina has both the skills and experience to work across a range of specialist fields.

In 2011 she established the Clear Horizon office in Perth which operated successfully for six years. In January 2018 she moved to Victoria with her family to work in the Clear Horizon Melbourne office.

Carina is now the company’s Managing Director. While she still supports evaluation projects and delivers training, her main role now involves overseeing the strategic, operational and corporate functions at Clear Horizon.

Lee-Anne Molony excels in supporting clients to bring disciplined thinking to their monitoring and evaluation challenges (M&E), working with organisations to plan for and implement M&E at the organisation, strategy, and program levels. Lee-Anne’s role is increasingly as a ‘trusted adviser’ to our clients, supporting their own effective program design and M&E planning, through mentoring, action-learning, and in-situ training or facilitated workshops. She has a wide reputation for her highly engaging and interactive approach to facilitation and training.

It is the privilege of improving program effectiveness, and making a positive difference to client M&E practices that Lee-Anne finds so rewarding. She particularly enjoys the challenge of helping clients to better distinguish between their real and perceived M&E needs.

With tertiary qualifications in both economics and natural resource management, Lee-Anne has had a varied work history, the most interesting of which was walking a 360km section of the New England wild dog fence to map its condition in one point in time for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service! Outside of work, you’ll generally find Lee-Anne relaxing with family and friends, boogie boarding, and at the theatre.

Jen Riley is Clear Horizon’s Chief Digital and Data Officer and has worked in the social sector for over 20 years. Jen has worked for some of the world’s largest NGOs including Oxfam, Plan International and United Way as well as a number of stints in state and federal government. In 2018 Clear Horizon acquired Jen’s firm and digital solution for measurement and evaluation – Track2Change, an online data reporting solution for social and environmental projects.

Jen has worked across a range of sectors including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Youth Transitions, Homelessness, Early Years, Mental Health and Family Violence, she has also led a number of collective impact initiatives and worked on a range of place-based evaluations. Jen is passionate about technology in the social sector and making reporting easy and transparent for stakeholders while also ensuring high standard of data integrity and security. Jen has a Masters in Development Studies and a BA, she is certified Agile PM practitioner and a Board Director at Eating Disorders Victoria.

She is also a mum to two beautiful children.

Cathy Hodgson provides strong financial management expertise to the leadership team to support the design and execution of both short term and long-term strategy.

Cathy is CPA qualified has an extensive finance career spanning numerous industries in both large and medium sized organisations. She has a talent for assisting businesses to achieve their goals in a very practical and functional manner, improving financial understanding and literacy across the organisation. Cathy is driven to make a difference and empower business owners with the information they need to make sound decisions.

Cathy has three young adult children and loves dance, yoga, cooking and travel in her spare time.

Cam brings a depth of sectoral knowledge gained through over five years’ experience working as an M&E consultant to his work as a trainer, facilitator and learning designer. He is responsible for ensuring the experience of learning at Clear Horizon Academy is world-class. This includes cultivating a thriving community of learners and alumni, deeply understanding learners’ needs and feeding this into the design of every CHA course.

Cam has a passion for learning and uses his creativity, sensitivity and curiosity in service of discovery. He believes the wisdom of a group is greater than the sum of its parts and works to support this collective wisdom to emerge in everything he does.

Prior to joining Clear Horizon Academy he worked as a learning designer and facilitator in several blended learning startups including Code For Australia, Limbr and Open Health. Cam also co-founded a social enterprise to address social isolation which offered hard but valuable lessons in leadership, group dynamics and community management.

Cam has a deep love of nature and when he isn’t working you will find him in his veggie garden, hiking, marching for climate action or writing stern letters to elected officials!

Dave Green has worked on Australia’s Aid Program in the Pacific and Southeast Asian regions for over 15 years; across the public, not-for-profit and private sectors. He has a deep understanding of DFAT approaches to aid design and delivery. His experience spans investment design, monitoring, and evaluation experience across diverse sectors – including education, WASH, health, governance, community driven development, civil society strengthening, impact investing, gender-based violence and women’s economic empowerment. At the country portfolio level, he has developed strategies; monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems and performance reports; as well as driven systematic efforts to institutionalise portfolio-wide MEL capacity. He is passionate about improving international development practice by providing credible and useful insights to policy makers and practitioners.

Angelos Blackwood is part of Clear Horizon International, he provides M&E support to a range of international development organisations including the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the World Bank. He specialises in developing sector and country-level performance assessment frameworks (PAF) including the PAF for Australia’s aid program in Indonesia, as well as evaluations, particularly of governance programs. Angelos brings to Clear Horizon a belief that M&E enables organisations to not only understand the outcomes of their work, but what they can improve.

Outside of work, Angelos loves to go on adventures with his baby boy and wife, even if it is just going to the nearest café.

Damien Sweeney is an experienced MEL practitioner and sustainable development generalist who brings his wide knowledge and skills to develop clear and practical project designs and M&E frameworks tailored to complex problems and adaptive management.

Damien is responsible for the technical direction and quality delivery of international development investment designs and MEL frameworks, reviews, and evaluations.  Damien’s brings his knowledge of behaviour change, and experience in economic development, infrastructure, resource management, education and skills, health, WASH, and climate change mitigation and adaptation, to develop robust logic models to support implantable and effective designs and evaluations.

Damien finds personal reward in building client and partner’s monitoring and evaluation skills, so that projects are more effectively implemented, and sustainable change is made towards progressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

When not at work, Damien Sweeney likes to be out hiking, or scuba diving.

Don Thomson is a Principal Consultant directing and managing projects across the Sustainable Futures Team. Don brings a grounded, person-centered approach to his work helping clients co-design purposeful, insightful and user-friendly M&E frameworks and systems. His grounded approach is a result of his diverse background as a Registered Landscape Architect helping community groups plan and design catchment- and regional-scale landscape change; a farmer for 30 years; and a program/policy evaluation consultant for 20 years.

Don has a PhD in rural sociology/human geography focusing on understanding how farmers and rural communities perceive, respond and adapt to change. His career highlights span on-ground field-work feats (like walking the 280 km length of the Wimmera River in Victoria to undertake a riparian assessment) to developing a community capacity assessment tool to help program designers assess the likelihood that an intervention within a regional community would get traction.

Outside of work, Don can be usually found exploring the tracks and trails of Tasmania through his passions for trail running, bushwalking and bike riding, or re-creating a magical space in his large garden inspired by the natural landscapes he loves.

Ellise Barkley leads the Culture and Place team and provides evaluation support for social justice and systems change initiatives. She brings over 20 years of experience in stakeholder management and evaluation.

Since working at Clear Horizon, Ellise has played a lead role in developing evaluation frameworks and tools for place-based approaches and pursued her interest in participatory and culturally appropriate learning and evaluation. Ellise works with diverse partners including community, government, business, non-government, philanthropy and university organisations – across a range of sectors.

In 2016 Ellise completed a doctorate in evaluation, leading the co-design and implementation of a participatory evaluation framework for an international community arts and cultural development initiative. Ellise has published peer reviewed papers in evaluation and co- authored a tertiary science and engineering textbook on environmental decision-making.

Beyond evaluation, Ellise is inspired by the natural environment and is hands-on learning how to grow and share food via suburban edible forests.

Erin Passmore is a Principal Consultant with the Clear Horizon International Team. Erin is an experienced MEL practitioner, bringing over 13 years’ experience supporting MEL of international development and public health programs in Australia and the Pacific region. 

Erin provides technical advice to organisations to develop MEL systems, delivers high-quality reviews and evaluations, and supports organisations to implement learnings to improve programming. Erin has a deep understanding of DFAT approaches to aid design and delivery, bringing MEL experience across diverse sectors including health, education, disability, workforce development, gender-based violence and women’s economic empowerment.

Erin is passionate about working with policy-makers and practitioners to generate credible information and practical insights. The most rewarding part of her work is ensuring organisations have the right information, at the right time, to inform decision-making and ultimately improve programming.

In her free time, you’ll find Erin hiking, scuba diving, canoeing, or planning her next outdoor adventure.

Jill Campbell is a principal consultant directing and managing projects that reflect her desire to ensure we have a sustainable future. Shaped by years as a social researcher and refined during the years she completed her doctorate, Jill now brings a researcher’s desire for deep understanding and clear communication to her role working on projects contributing to that future.

She works to bridge the divide between theory and practice, applying adapting proven and exciting new approaches to meet clients’ needs using her wide-ranging experience in evaluation design, delivery and project management across a range of industry sectors and clients.

Words are important to Jill both at work and away. It will come as no surprise then, that a poet’s notebook, pencil and love of language are her constant companions.

Lucy Macmillan is a senior consultant with Clear Horizon’s Rights and Justice group. With a background in law and a Masters of Evaluation, she manages projects in the justice, health and education sectors. She has worked in the international context with UNICEF Australia; worked with Indigenous organisations to promote the rights of First Nations people in Australia; and explored the connections between health and justice through her work in the legal and public health sectors. Through her work, Lucy has become passionate about the need to correct the power imbalance in design and evaluation. In particular, she is committed to finding ways through design, research and evaluation for communities to be more in control of the programs that are being delivered to them.

Outside of work, Lucy loves spending time with family and getting outdoors.

Sarah Leslie is a Principal Consultant in the Clear Horizon International team. She supports a range of clients to understand their programming challenges and designs and implements monitoring, evaluation and learning systems which provide useful information to support adaptive management.

Sarah is a monitoring, evaluation and learning geek who has worked in MEL roles in both state and federal government and NGOs. She has a Masters in Evaluation from the University of Melbourne and has nine years experience providing monitoring and evaluation advice and support with a focus on evaluation capacity building, Sarah has worked for ten years in international development in the education, health and social protection sectors. She has particular experience in portfolio level performance management.

In her spare time, Sarah likes gardening, hiking, cycling and cooking.”

Sophie Pinwill is a Principal Consultant with the Clear Horizon International team. Sophie’s combination of evaluation and management experience helps her to advise and guide organisations through the development of monitoring and evaluation systems, and evaluate, learn and implement the learnings from social change programs. Sophie is also passionate about evaluation capacity development and the value of participatory approaches in M&E. One example of successfully using the highly participatory Most Significant Change technique; Sophie and her team in South East Asia collected over 100 change stories which were used to share the voices of men and women involved in the program and engage senior officials in understanding and analysing the change process and the extent and type of impact the program had had on participating stakeholders.

Having lived in Asia for more than 12 years, Sophie enjoys cooking and sharing spicy food with family and friends.

Anna Strempel is a Senior Consultant in the Sustainable Futures team. She is an experienced facilitator and evaluator who helps clients to build theories of change and MEL frameworks, conduct evaluations and design better programs and services. She is skilled at creating environments where people feel safe to question, experiment and ideate.

Anna has worked across the environmental, international development and asylum seeker/refugee sectors in roles spanning research, journalism, project management and evaluation. Her diverse professional background strengthens her evaluation practice and helps her to understand each client’s unique needs. She is passionate about facilitating positive change, and particularly enjoys that aspect of evaluation work.

When not at work Anna can be found riding her bike, exploring local parks with her daughter or hosting the odd radio program.

Francesco Gimelli is a Senior Consultant based in the Sustainable Futures team. Francesco is an interdisciplinary sustainability and international development professional with a passion for rigorous applied research that can be translated into real benefits, as demonstrated by his fieldwork-based PhD in Human Geography in the sprawling informal settlements of the Indian cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Faridabad.

Francesco has drawn on his passion to research, teach, and consult in Australia and overseas across areas ranging from public policy, international development, climate change resilience, natural resource management, urban planning, and social research. His interdisciplinarity, outgoing character, commitment to learning, and extensive facilitation experience make him particularly interested in and adept at crafting and implementing participatory measuring, evaluation and learning processes for a wide variety of clients.

Outside of work, you’ll likely find Francesco on a bicycle ride, reading a good book on the beach, or whipping up something decadent in the kitchen like the good Italian that he is.

Heidi Peterson is a Senior Consultant in the Health Futures team. Heidi collaborates closely with clients to maximise their desired impact. She loves to develop Theories of Change and innovative evaluation methodologies, as well as facilitating workshops and supporting partnerships.

Heidi is passionate about collaborative and participatory approaches to strategy design, partnerships, and evaluation. While working for the UK government, Heidi developed a collaborative approach to evaluating Value for Money with nineteen different organisations for two large research for development funds. Heidi is also undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Policy Research and Practice at the University of Bath, focusing on innovative evaluation methodologies (including Value for Money).

Outside of the office, Heidi can be found playing with her golden retriever and eating roast potatoes.

Helen Moriarty is an experienced consultant who specialises in international development with a focus on program design, review and evaluation. She holds a Masters of Evaluation from Melbourne University. The vast majority of Helen’s work over 29 years has been carried out in developing and middle-income county settings, mostly in the Asia – Pacific region. This variety has provided her with a solid understanding of the political landscape and cultural challenges involved in working across a range of development setting – from community-based to sub-national and national government levels.

Hands-on experience in various roles throughout all stages of the programming cycle (as proposal writer, contract manager, project director, participatory planning adviser, design team member, mid-term reviewer, and evaluator) has helped to ground Helen’s advisory work, and brings an understanding of the complexities involved in setting and achieving realistic development goals in challenging real-world settings. She has a strong interest in partnering the aspirations of high level development goals with the practicalities of constrained environments.

When she’s not working, Helen can be found on the top of a hill, north of the great divide waiting for the right winds to launch her paraglider – or busy keeping her garden at bay in Melbourne.

Kaisha Crupi is a Senior Consultant at Clear Horizon and is part of the Clear Horizon International team. She is a skilled evaluator with strong skills in facilitation and evaluation capacity building. Kaisha has recently completed her Masters in Evaluation, where she was able to combine her passion for inclusivity and transformative approaches to the measurement, evaluation and learning practice, particularly around feminist methodologies.

Having previously worked in the corporate and NGO sectors, both internationally and domestically, Kaisha has had a broad range of experiences. Kaisha has an inquisitive mind, and ensures that all projects she works on focuses on practicalities of implementation, that the outputs are fit-for-purpose and utilisation-focused, as well and ensuring that all voices are included in project design and delivery. Her particular areas of interest include transformative MEL practices, value for money and evaluation capacity building, particularly tied to localisation of MEL practices.

In Kaisha’s spare time she enjoys cooking her Mum or Nonna’s recipes, choreographed spin classes and waterfall hunting in regional Victoria with friends.

Melinda Chiment brings her passion for participatory methods, community-based evaluation, and strategic planning to her role as Senior Consultant based in Adelaide. Prior to joining the Clear Horizons team in 2021, Melinda supported NGO’s across California as a strategic planning and evaluation consultant with NP Strategies. In her pre-consulting life, Melinda held leadership positions with several youth and arts-based NGO’s in the US and internationally. Melinda is trained in qualitive and quantitative research methods, having received her PhD in Sociology from The University of Queensland. Though her experience is diverse, the thread that connects Melinda’s work is a commitment to human-centered, asset-based approaches that connect communities with the tools they need to thrive.

Melinda lives in Adelaide with her husband and two young boys. On the weekends she loves piling everyone in the Subaru and heading off the beaten track.

Mutsumi Karasaki is a senior consultant in Clear Horizon’s Health Futures team. As an experienced anthropologist/sociologist, he is passionate about building an inclusive and caring society through collaboration and co-design. Having completed a PhD in Public Health, Mutsumi has spent the last 10 years involved in projects both nationally and internationally in wide ranging areas including mental health and wellbeing, informal and early childhood care, lived experience of chronic conditions and disability, and alcohol and other drugs. Along with his extensive research experience, he brings skills in design thinking, participatory design and ethnographic research methods and analysis.

Outside of work, Mutsumi loves food – both eating and cooking – and hitting the gym to burn off the calories from delicious food he has eaten.

Nathan Delbridge is a Senior Consultant and manager of the Sustainable Futures Team. Nathan is an experienced evaluator and project manager and supports the team to perform at its best.

Nathan is passionate about Australia’s unique and varied landscapes, people and biodiversity.  This motivates him to tackle the complex issues that threaten them, with a specific interests in climate change and natural resources. Nathan’s qualifications span the biophysical and social sciences, and he brings systems thinking and collaborative approaches to all his evaluation projects.

Nathan has managed evaluation projects across all levels of Government, including national system level strategies, state policies and programs, and local projects.  He has also worked closely with NGOs and community organisations, bringing the principles of useful and fit-for-purpose evaluation to tell the stories of their work.

Outside of the office, you’ll find Nathan riding his bike along the Yarra trails, at a local gig or drinking long blacks over a good book.

Niketa Kulkarni is a senior consultant in Clear Horizon’s international team. She supports clients develop MEL frameworks, undertake evaluations, and build capacity to gather insights about program/ policy effectiveness, with a specific focus on issues related to access, equity, and rights.

Niketa is an experienced gender and M&E specialist with over 15 years working in international development. Niketa is trained in both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and is particularly interested in designing gender and socially inclusive research and frameworks to understand how to improve the efficacy of laws, policies, and programs targeting vulnerable populations across the globe.

In her spare time Niketa loves to explore the world with her two boys, cook large family meals, and find new trails and paths to run along.

Nikki Bartlett is a Consultant working in Clear Horizon’s international team. She collaborates with clients in designing programs, improving M&E systems, and developing relevant, clear, and actionable insights to inform learning and decision making. Her work is informed by principles of access, inclusion, and equity and she supports clients in enhancing efforts in these areas.

Working in the for-purpose sector over the last 10 years, Nikki is particularly interested in how evidence can be used to advance equity at both a program and systems level. She has developed a broad skill set – research, program design, M&E, capacity development – applied across a range of sectors – education, youth empowerment, policy and governance, and natural resource management. This experience is bolstered by her current study: A Masters of Evaluation and a Graduate Certificate in Disability and Social Inclusion.

Shani is a Senior Consultant in Clear Horizon’s Social Innovation team. Having completed a Master of Environmental Management and Development, Shani is proficient in sustainability discourse and has contributed to achieving sustainable outcomes across corporate, public and not for profit sectors in research, design, evaluation and reporting capacities. In addition to her work in sustainability, Shani is deeply embedded in social entrepreneurialism and collaborative change-making, currently functioning as the People and Strategy Lead at Moral Fairground, a Melbourne-based platform organisation for ethical businesses and social enterprises.

An experienced researcher and facilitator, Shani brings high evaluation and co-design skills to her work, paired with a commitment to collaboration. At Clear Horizon, Shani has worked across a number of sectors, ranging from community development, education and engagement to agriculture.

Zoe is part of Clear Horizon’s Social Impact team and has a particular interest in education and mental health. She has a breadth of experience in the government and community sectors, having worked across several departments in the Victorian Government. For the last three years, Zoe has led some of the Department of Education and Training’s evaluation work, including research to synthesise data and findings from programmatic and strategic evaluations to consolidate and share evidence on the progress of the Victorian Education State agenda.

Zoe also holds a Master of International Development and has worked for several local and international NGOs as a researcher, project manager and grant writer. Her core skills are in monitoring and evaluation design, qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, workshop facilitation, project management, stakeholder engagement, and report writing.

Adriana Mendieta is an energetic Latin-American and a passionate community development professional. As Business Intelligence Consultant at Clear Horizon, she brings her experience as a Monitor and Results Measurement (MRM) Specialist, her knowledge of managing databases and expertise implementing data visualisation tools such as Power BI.

During her time working in the international NFP sector, Adriana has designed and implemented monitoring and evaluation frameworks and systems to capture meaningful results. She optimised the MEL system of the Swisscontact Skills Development Programme and the SNV horticulture project CHAIN. The most the enjoyable part of her roles have been delivering training and developing stakeholder’s capacity on monitoring and evaluation systems and tools.

Coming from a data background, Adriana has always been driven to find technological solutions that deliver insights from data in a clear, precise and efficient way. She believes that accurate data collection, transparent reporting, unbiased analysis and continuous improvement driven by program monitoring and evaluation, are at the core of project management and are the basis of successful development programs.

Adriana holds a Master of Social Science, International Development from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). When Adriana is not using Excel spreadsheets and Pivot Tables to organise recipes or plan holidays, she enjoys doing yoga, going to movie festivals and hiking with friends.

As part of Clear Horizon’s Health Futures team, Alessandra specialises in qualitative research, writing, and project management. Having completed Honours qualifications in anthropology, she is able to analyse complex social dynamics and identify patterns in large amounts of data. When collecting information, she strives to listen deeply, maintain awareness of power dynamics, and be ready to challenge her own assumptions. Her background in literary journalism has also equipped her with the ability to engage readers and communicate research findings with clarity.

Alessandra has assisted with various types of projects, including developmental evaluations, evaluating place-based approaches, and creating evaluation training courses. She is highly organised and manages competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, but always maintaining close attention to detail.

In her free time, she likes to read, write creative non-fiction, listen to podcasts, practice parkour and travel.

Ed Hawkes is a consultant at Clear Horizon with experience in both quantitative analysis and qualitative research.

Ed has the insight and experience to develop innovative methodologies for mixed-methods research and analysis. Ed’s analytical skills allow him to analyse and synthesise large volumes of data, and effectively communicate insights to different audiences. Ed is an experienced project manager and focuses upon both developmental and traditional evaluations. Prior to joining Clear Horizon Ed led the technical development of dashboards at Navigating Outcomes, and completed a Masters of Development Studies with a particular interest in evaluation methodologies and conflict.

In his spare time Ed can be found playing football, eating oats, and practicing Arabic.

Elliott Tester is a Consultant with the Social Innovation team.

He offers strong data collection, facilitation and strategic design skills in the pursuit of fit-for-purpose products.

Elliott discovered monitoring and evaluation towards the end of his Master’s degree while reflecting on how best to support positive and sustainable community-led change. He soon pursued a position with a large not-for-profit to make this past-time passion a reality.

Elliott has been working in design, monitoring and evaluation since 2016, both in the international and domestic context. His experience has been primarily within the not-for-profit sector, designing and implementing cascading M&E Frameworks, gamified capacity-building tools, and organisational systems change. He has a specific passion for creative and flexible approaches.

In his spare time, Elliott enjoys mirth (stand-up comedy), books, shooting hoops, making new friends, and climbing mountains.

Nikki Sloan is a Consultant with the Sustainable Futures team at Clear Horizon. With a background in sustainability and data, Nikki is responsible for supporting monitoring and evaluation through data management, collection and analysis.

Nikki is a passionate problem solver and loves nothing more than a problem with an applied solution that helps real people and environments. She has extensive experience in supporting organisations and individuals domestically and internationally to improve their data processes and take advantage of their data in new ways.

Nikki is an unapologetically huge nerd. When not enjoying speculative fiction and spreadsheets, she can be found lifting heavy things at the gym.

Cam brings a depth of sectoral knowledge gained through over five years’ experience working as an M&E consultant to his work as a trainer, facilitator and learning designer. He is responsible for ensuring the experience of learning at Clear Horizon Academy is world-class. This includes cultivating a thriving community of learners and alumni, deeply understanding learners’ needs and feeding this into the design of every CHA course.

Cam has a passion for learning and uses his creativity, sensitivity and curiosity in service of discovery. He believes the wisdom of a group is greater than the sum of its parts and works to support this collective wisdom to emerge in everything he does.

Prior to joining Clear Horizon Academy he worked as a learning designer and facilitator in several blended learning startups including Code For Australia, Limbr and Open Health. Cam also co-founded a social enterprise to address social isolation which offered hard but valuable lessons in leadership, group dynamics and community management.

Cam has a deep love of nature and when he isn’t working you will find him in his veggie garden, hiking, marching for climate action or writing stern letters to elected officials!

Molly Bates works within the Clear Horizon Academy team as a Junior Learning Designer, working with Subject Matter Experts and providing support to the Learning Designer and the Academy team in production and customisation of new course materials.

Prior to Clear Horizon, she worked for eWorks on the Victorian Government online training response to COVID-19 in 2020. She was also involved in the project management, design and development of VET online training courses. Molly is committed to the environment and sustainable living.

Outside of work, Molly loves to travel, practice yoga, hike with her Groodle and go on road trips with friends.

Tanya Vladic is an Instructional Designer with the Clear Horizon Academy. Leveraging her experience in learning strategy, design and facilitation, she is responsible for building world-class learning experiences for the community of learners and alumni.

Having worked across a variety of industries, in both domestic and international companies, Tanya has a broad range of experience in designing and implementing change-making learning. She thrives on turning the big picture into reality and works with her clients to clearly define learning goals and then create engaging learning experiences. As a life-long learner, Tanya is always flexing her curiosity by exploring new learning technology and thinking to challenge how CHA can evolve its offering.

Outside of work Tanya has three young children who keep her very busy! She also loves to cook a great meal and enjoy a glass of wine with her husband, take a Pilates class and read.

Adriana Mendieta is an energetic Latin-American and a passionate community development professional. As Business Intelligence Consultant at Clear Horizon, she brings her experience as a Monitor and Results Measurement (MRM) Specialist, her knowledge of managing databases and expertise implementing data visualisation tools such as Power BI.

During her time working in the international NFP sector, Adriana has designed and implemented monitoring and evaluation frameworks and systems to capture meaningful results. She optimised the MEL system of the Swisscontact Skills Development Programme and the SNV horticulture project CHAIN. The most the enjoyable part of her roles have been delivering training and developing stakeholder’s capacity on monitoring and evaluation systems and tools.

Coming from a data background, Adriana has always been driven to find technological solutions that deliver insights from data in a clear, precise and efficient way. She believes that accurate data collection, transparent reporting, unbiased analysis and continuous improvement driven by program monitoring and evaluation, are at the core of project management and are the basis of successful development programs.

Adriana holds a Master of Social Science, International Development from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). When Adriana is not using Excel spreadsheets and Pivot Tables to organise recipes or plan holidays, she enjoys doing yoga, going to movie festivals and hiking with friends.

Andre Martinez is a senior data and digital consultant working in international development. He supports design, development, and implementation of digital and data solutions.

Andre has over 12 years of professional experience spanning food security, livelihoods and education. Andre’s skill set blends applied statistics with agile management to drive strategic outcomes. By focusing on communication as the main obstacle, Andre has been successful in developing, implementing, and scaling innovative initiatives in support of evidence-based decision making. He has experience leveraging enterprise digital solutions and managing open-sourced software development projects in support of data-driven initiatives.

In his spare time, he enjoys playing soccer, listening to music, economics, and science podcasts, and Melbourne’s food scene.

Dru de Livera is a senior digital and data consultant at Clear Horizon. He has a background in management consulting, working across corporate, government and non-for-profit organisations, where he delivered projects covering innovation, digital analytics, user experience and growth strategy. He has also worked in the start-up space, including interning at Uber where he helped develop and launch a tailored service in a new market. He studied Commerce at the University of Melbourne, where he completed an honours thesis exploring consumer attitudes towards greenwashing.

In his free time he likes learning new coding languages, cooking up a storm and playing with old film cameras.

Ethel Karskens is a Senior Data and Digital consultant at Clear Horizon. She cares about creating long lasting impact using an innovative approach. Among other things, she supports the Social Impact team with their digital strategy and advise on data projects implementations. Ethel is passionate about using data and tech for social good: she has worked on complex forensics analytics projects to detect frauds at PwC, product managed social start-ups and founded a not-for-profit to connect data professionals with charities.

Outside of work, Ethel teaches analytics at General Assembly, likes to surf and to travel.

Kim brings to projects strong analytical skills and design ideas, as well as transforming complex data to visual graphs.

Kim has specialized himself in the design and development of Data Integration and Visualization solutions including Reporting, Analysis & Dashboards for Clients such as RMIT, Melbourne University and others to name a few.

Kim found his way into evaluation after meeting Jen Riley in November of 2018. He loved the idea of creating visuals from unorthodox data.  He has also become a recent father to a baby girl and enjoys doing recreational sports in his spare time.

Rob has been building websites, apps, and working with all things software-related for over ten years.  He is passionate about projects that have a positive social or environmental impact, and has experience building coding frameworks and content management systems from scratch.  As well as being fluent in a wide range of coding languages, he prides himself on being able to translate techie-talk into English.

Prior to his IT life, Rob travelled the world for several years teaching Scuba diving and has a deep love for all things aquatic.  Outside of work, he is employed as a serf by his feudal master, Loquita: Melbourne’s most feared and dangerous cat.

Amina Saikal works within the Platform Team providing executive support to Dr. Jess Dart. While managing schedules, communications, and administrative duties, she also provides a wide range of support to projects across the Health Futures Team and the Academy.

Prior to joining Clear Horizon, Amina completed her Masters of International Development, and worked with migrant health and sustainability in Australia and abroad. She is extremely passionate about intersectional feminism in community development.

In her spare time, Amina loves to be out in the sunshine, reading speculative fiction and creative writing.

Irene Adam-Manik is project coordinator for the Sustainable Futures and Clear Horizon International Business Groups. With her strong organisational skills and excellent attention to detail, Irene works to support the smooth running of projects across the two Business Groups.

Irene has a Masters of International Urban and Environmental Management, and has considerable experience providing administrative and communications support to complex and multi-stakeholder projects in the social research and international development sectors in Australia and the Maldives.

During her free time, Irene enjoys long walks with her dog ‘Totoro’, reading, and playing the piano.

Kaylie Burrows has great organisational skills and excellent attention to detail .

Kaylie has revamped our brand management and now co-ordinates our marketing and internal events.

When not at work Kaylie is kept busy with family life, school & Scout committees and raising assistance puppies for Dogs for Kids with Disabilities.  Whilst enjoying some Me time with her book group.

Kristy Mulquiney has 20 years’ experience working in the finance and administration sector, with the last 8 years focused to bookkeeping.  She is a dedicated, loyal person and enjoys solving problems.

Her passion is her children who she enjoys exploring nature and discovering new places, camping is a highlight!

Leigh Stewart a senior communications and marketing professional in the non-profit sector, believes that while the work in our sector is usually highly detailed and complex, our communications needn’t be. In fact, if we are serious about accountability and transparency, we need to ensure our communications are accessible, relevant and engaging to a range of stakeholders.

Having led communications and digital teams in Australian and international organisations for 20 years, Leigh now works to transform dense reports, analysis and Theories of Change into visually engaging pieces to better communicate impact and outcomes. This includes designing data dashboards, working closely with clients to determine how data viz technology can best tell their story of impact, and digital impact measurement, to help track how key audiences are engaging and responding to initiatives across a variety of platforms.

She also adept at developing and implementing organisation-wide communications strategies, building and raising brand recognition and value, and telling a good story of change.

Leigh holds a BA in English Literature and Communications, a Grad Cert in International Human Rights Law, and a Certificate in Direct and Digital Marketing.

She’s also lucky enough to be based in Mexico, where a good internet connection means she’s only ever a Zoom or Teams call away.

Yuanita Moore is working in the Marketing team and responsible for producing high-quality and strategic visual communications for the organisation.

Yuanita has spent the last six years working as the Digital and Design Officer for the World Mosquito Program (WMP), a multi-country health initiative which is well-recognised for its simple, effective communications and outreach. She is highly-skilled in transforming technical information into engaging visual content for a wide variety of target audiences across print, digital and social platforms.

A creative thinker who is always on the hunt of new challenges, new technologies and new places to eat spicy food.