Meet the Team
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HR Staff n’ Stuff provide down to earth, practical advice and HR consulting services to businesses in Melbourne and across Australia. Established in 2008, we have helped hundreds of businesses improve their people management, retention, engagement, profitability and performance. More importantly, we provide practical and creative solutions to help managers and business owners struggling with people management and engagement issues.
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Deborah Peppard, Director
After many years in senior management roles in leading international companies, in 2008 Deb founded HR Staff n’ Stuff with the vision of providing practical and down to earth HR advice and solutions to support to businesses in managing their people. With her growing team, her passion for a common-sense approach to HR has proven successful with a wide range of industries as Deb helps cut through the overrated and complicated HR Stuff, assists businesses navigate their way through challenging situations and helps them build an engaged and successful team.
An accredited HR Coach, Deborah also has a track record as a global people manager, workshop facilitator, public speaker and business mentor. She delivers workshops for business and local councils, such as Monash and Maroondah, that are designed to fit the individual needs of the group. Deborah provides sales and customer service training, runs a number of different DiSC workshops and is always excited by the opportunity to help businesses and their people. Leadership development is a particular passion due to understanding of the research that attests that 70% of people leave their boss, not their job. She makes it her mission to help grow better leaders! Deborah wants to live in a world filled with puppies, baby goats in pyjamas, chocolate and free round the world airline tickets so she can continue to explore more of this big wide world with her wife and friends! Our team of HR ProfessionalsDanielle Stone
Danielle is a highly experienced HR Professional with more than 15 years’ experience advising clients nationally in a diverse range of private enterprises across the corporate and trade sectors. Specialising in managing industrial relations and employee relations matters, Danielle has an outstanding reputation for partnering with her clients to achieve the best outcomes for their business. Danielle has a particular passion and talent for advising and assisting with reviewing and improving organisational structure to streamline efficiencies, productivity and profitability for businesses.
Danielle has held national HR Management and talent acquisition roles and has comprehensive experience in recruitment, advising on Modern Awards, EBAs, Change Management, OH&S and Strategic Human Resources Management. She is also an accredited Workplace Drug and Alcohol tester. Danielle’s focus is to survive the early childhood parenting years with her sanity intact! She is keen on continuing to indulge her love of attending a wide range of bands and muso gigs and travels when she can as she continues exploring the world with her family. She is also the go to lady if you are wanting to know where to purchase the best Vietnamese pork rolls! Mariska Nagy |
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Mariska has over a decade’s experience in managing all aspects of HR including performance management, workplace behaviour, recruitment, organisational development, change management, workforce planning, learning and development and advice regarding awards, legislation and policies. She is skilled in conflict management and de-escalation and well versed in managing the needs of multiple stakeholders in a negotiation. Mariska is also highly experienced in the area of recruitment, administering and interpreting psychometric testing and inducting new employees into a team. With a career that includes time in government and large corporations in operational management roles and HR, Mariska brings a wealth and breadth of experience to the team.
Mariska has held senior HR roles that have involved the assessment and delivery of training programs, rehabilitation and return to work programs, provided support, guidance and advice on legislative requirements and is skilled in supporting and managing organisational change. Mariska’s vision of the future includes children that pick up their own toys without arguing and pistachio nuts that peel themselves. Kristi Ackland
Kristi brings a wealth of management experience to the HR Staff n’ Stuff team with hands on experience in recruitment, leadership and training. She has an absolute passion for employee growth through training and development, mentoring and performance coaching. Kristi understands the challenges a business owner and manager faces in achieving results through leading an effective team while meeting the needs of clients.
Kristi would love to see a world where there is more time for yoga (and wearing comfy yoga pants) and that chocolate was considered a main meal. |
Sophie Evans
Sophie has honed her skills in business and people management with 30 years spent across intensive and demanding photographic retail and production businesses, managing and leading a variety of effective and well regarded teams. She is highly accomplished in all areas of people management and HR, including recruitment, coaching, training, team building, performance management, issues management, investigation and conflict resolution. Sophie’s experience and knowledge is practical, hands-on and professional sprinkled with humour, and she is very outcome driven with a can-do positive attitude to achieve the best results for her clients.
Sophie’s speciality expertise lies in creating highly engaged and productive teams and training and developing new leaders, and she is also our resident expert in Lean and 5S processes, allowing her to help our clients with identifying opportunities to improve efficiencies (and save time and money) in their businesses as well as helping them build capacity in their people leadership skills. Her extensive experience in production and manufacturing also provides her with added insight and knowledge. Sophie begrudgingly accepts that enjoying the finer things in life means she needs to work it off at the gym but she does fantasise about guilt free wine! She also loves a good dress up event (where wine is present) where she can preen and strut her newest outfit creation! She can also be found loudly and passionately barracking for the mighty Tiges! |
Jacqui Antoniou
After a long career in retail store and area management, followed by a foray into managing wholesale and customer service departments, Jacqui made the leap into HR Consulting so she could focus wholly on what she loves, which is helping businesses look after their people and understand their employer obligations and industry best practice.
Bringing a vast range of knowledge in people management, customer service, recruitment, issues management and general wholesaling processes, Jacqui loves to share her experience and skills with our clients to help them with their general HR and business operations. Particularly adept at really digging into the detail, Jacqui’s passions are assisting clients with employment contracts, recruitment, pay and award issues & enquires and undertaking investigations into all manner of things. Jacqui dreams of a world where a big LOTTO win appears, and in the meantime, one where peak hour traffic disappears! When not doing awesome HR stuff, she loves spending time with family and kicking on at the occasional dance party (occasional because you know, she’s old now)…. and grooving to dance music (forgive us, we know this is an area of grave concern but we hired her anyway!) |
Kari McCormack, Marketing & Communications
With over 20 years of experience in the fast paced, highly intensive film industry before moving to the completely unrelated natural therapies field, Kari fits the HR Staff n’ Stuff philosophy of having a no nonsense approach to all facets of marketing. Kari’s experience in strategic planning and execution of integrated marketing and media campaigns of all shapes and sizes, has resulted in an extremely experienced and adaptable marketing and communications professional.
Kari’s focus on the positive combined with a strong understanding of business culture and practices, results in the delivery of considered marketing solutions for HR Staff n’ Stuff and our clients. Kari hopes they find the cure for aging so she can continue to play netball without needing to apply ice to her old knees. Deb hopes that Kari finds a new sport entirely after watching Kari break bones, tear tendons and scrape knees! Kari also dreams of a future that contains calorie free potato chips that taste awesome! |