Karyn Mackew

Karyn has more than 25 years experience working in HR for private, government and not for profit organisations. Her experience includes working with World Vision Australia, Cleanaway, City of Whitehorse, City of Greater Dandenong, Accenture, Allens Linklaters, Dun & Bradstreet and RACV.

Her roles have been both hands on and strategic giving her a good understanding of how and why HR adds value to a business. She has held HR leadership roles directly managing teams and her experience includes Employee and Industrial Relations, Performance & Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion, Enterprise Agreement negotiations, Learning and Development, Strategic Planning, HR & Payroll systems implementation. Karyn recognises that organisations achieve their goals when employee engagement is optimised and she has a passion for fostering respectful and accountable workplace cultures.

Karyn holds a Bachelor of Business (HR), a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Certificate IV in Project Management, Mental Health First Aid (2022) and is a certified coach in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Karyn is a Chartered Member of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) and volunteers on a Committee of Management for a rural disability services provider.

Karyn and her partner have a small farm located near Yarck in regional Victoria which keeps them busy most weekends with family and friends visiting, gardening, lots of mowing in Spring and a small number of cattle (just don’t ask her how many broken water pipes she’s attempted to fix!).