About Us
For over twenty years Alison has been a trusted advisor to hundreds of organisations across the Asia Pacific region in the creation and delivery of innovative workforce solutions spanning organisational and demographic change, work life wellbeing, retirement success, knowledge transfer and career mobility.
Alison is deeply invested in the technological, demographic, cultural and societal trends that shape the way that people work and is committed to providing evidence-based thought leadership and delivering social impact.
Alison has led a Global HR Services business across Asia Pacific with a delivery footprint in seventeen countries including Australia, NZ, Greater China, Singapore and Japan.
Alison co-founded and grew a successful business for over twelve years (Sageco), which went on to be acquired by Randstad Group and become part of Randstad RiseSmart in APAC) specialising in longevity and ageing workforce solutions.
Over this period, Alison and her team delivered leadership education programs to several thousand people leaders and to over twenty thousand employees aged 50+. Clients included AGL, Sydney Water, Pepsico, Commonwealth Bank, Qantas Airways, Oracle. Alison has worked closely with Professor Lynda Gratton’s HSM Advisory team since 2022.
Alison has a BSc (Hons) degree from Oxford Brookes University and has engaged in senior executive development at LBS, INSEAD and TIAS in recent years. Alison is an Ambassador and Chair of the Family Friendly Workplaces Advisory Group (a UNICEF Australia/Parents At Work partnership), a WGEA Pay Equity Ambassador, Women’s Agenda Award winner (Agenda Setter 2014), former President of The Inclusion Circle, a Certified Retirement Success, and was awarded the Stevie Gold Award for Female Executive of the Year (Asia, Australia, NZ) 2017.
Alison is a much sought after keynote speaker and conference chair.
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Catriona communicates to inspire action. She is ruthless about clarity and has zero tolerance for the ordinary. Catriona has a wealth of experience in communication and narrative management, brand development, education and start-ups. With deep smarts in managing internal and change communication, she facilitates compelling conferences and webinars, and creates inspiring content.
Relentlessly curious, easily amused, occasionally mischievous, yet deeply committed to inclusion and respect, she is energised by connecting and collaborating with people to create WOW experiences.
With diverse industry experience across telecommunications, financial services, Olympic and Paralympic organisations, start-ups and global human services, Catriona innately understands the vibe of an organisation and what makes it “tick”.
She was the architect of the workforce communications function for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games – from start-up to 2 500 employees, 30 000 contractors and 50 000 volunteers.
She devised and championed six branding and re-branding projects in seven years to create new markets and manage identity through merger and acquisition activity – engaging sceptical boards, inspiring team members and retaining employees and associates throughout an 18-year history.
She has facilitated over 200 workshops, focus groups, webinar and conferences with >300 diverse organisations, including nuclear science, road and traffic engineering, health insurance, postal and logistics, utilities, banking and finance, technology, local councils, environmental agencies, financial services, tobacco, telecommunications, and aviation.
In 2020-21, Catriona was part of the bid team led by Kathryn Greiner and Professor Laurie Buys for a CRC Longevity – an Australia-wide collaborative that brought together industry, government and researchers to deliver deep insights to drive innovation in new services, products and policies for older Australians. Whilst the bid did not receive the government funding it deserved, it was an extraordinary springboard to explore longevity.
Honed through years of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, Catriona is both creative and commercial. She has strong start-up nous as a co-founder of an HR consultancy Sageco (2004) contributing to and achieving above average year-on-year growth of 7% in its final 5 years before the 2017 acquisition by Randstad – the world’s largest Human Capital company.
Catriona has worked with Alison Hernandez since 1999 in different guises and is proud to call her #workwife.
With 40+ years of experience Sandy is a recognised expert in workforce optimisation, strategic career and talent/leadership development consulting. Sandy had successfully established trusted partnerships with hundreds of clients across: APAC, Russia, North America, Europe and Africa.
Sandy has held senior positions in several multinational workforce consulting firms over the past 24 years including the Country Director of Randstad Risesmart for Greater China; the Managing Partner of the Greater China partner of Career Partners International and the VP Consulting of Right Management.
Sandy has been regarded as the trusted partner by many clients, who recognise her dedication of designing and customising solutions to achieve win-win outcomes along the workforce cycle: “select the right people”; “develop the right HIPO”; “engage the right talent”; “transform the right leaders”; “transition people in the right way”.
Sandy’s client network covers both MNCs and Chinese companies in over 20+industries, just to name a few: IT, internet, cybersecurity, retail, FMCG, legal, telecom., financial institutions, manufacturing, oil chemical, pharmaceutical, automotive, government bodies (police, hospitals), non-profit organizations, universities, and business education institutions.
She has rich experiences in coaching over 2,000 diverse participants worldwide to achieve their desired career and life goals; participant profiles included C suite executives, function directors, business unit heads, middle and frontline managers. Sandy has strong cultural awareness and sensitivity, where she develops long
term interpersonal relationships and respectful friendships with many clients and candidates at all levels across many functions.
Sandy holds a master’s degree in Education and Teenage Psychology from New Castle University, UK. She is passionate about coaching individuals, particularly University and MBA students to achieve their career ambitions. Sandy is trilingual in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Shirley has over 20 years business development experience which focus on Talent
Development, Leadership Development, Organization Development, Performance
Management, etc. Shirley’s portfolio includes working as a GM with Leader Consulting responsible for the organisational People Development business.
With over a decade of business development experience in the talent development industry, Shirley has tailored innovative and scalable solutions that help clients optimise their people development strategy.
Her practical talent development solutions have provided her with broader insights into the talent market, internationally and locally. In recent years, she held roles in internal HR to client service consultant, senior client partner and talent development business director in global leading talent management and career management consulting firms.
Together with Sandy Wong, Shirley is the exclusive provider of Receate100 solutions in Greater China.
Shirley has a strong belief in “Helping Clients Succeed” which serves as the foundation to improving people’s performance and enhancing employer brand.
Shirley received her Bachelor degree from Fudan University with a major of administration management. She also has an IPA certificate for teachers of Chinese to speakers of other languages.
Shirley Sun
Country Lead. China.
Work with Us
We are building a team of passionate, highly experienced consultants who will deliver keynotes, leadership forums and workshops under the ReCreate100 banner.
Interested? Contact us to find out more.