Melbourne-based Proper Lane Consulting has recruited Les Hems as a principal in Sydney, including greater than three many years of social sector expertise.
Les Hems crosses after the previous two years as a director at planning & design advisory Urbis, earlier than which he spent a decade between Deloitte and EY as a part of a analysis and social growth profession courting again to the 80s in the UK.
Established in 2011 by Marc Levy, who now serves as chair, Proper Lane Consulting payments itself as a for-purpose’ technique and administration agency, a declare backed up being the primary B Corp licensed advisory of its type in Australia.
Hems brings greater than three many years of social sector expertise, in areas corresponding to psychological well being, housing, incapacity, and aged care. Beginning out within the UK, he has labored as a senior researcher and director for a variety of top-level establishments, together with, amongst others, College School London’s College of Public Coverage, and the centre for Civil Society Research at Johns Hopkins College.
In 2009, Hems joined UNSW’s Centre for Social Influence as a director of analysis, earlier than later switching to the Large 4, first at Ernst & Younger after which Deloitte, the place he served as a principal within the latter’s social impression consulting workforce. He generally advises non-profit shoppers in areas corresponding to technique, transformation, service design, impression investing, and organisational capability constructing.
Primarily based out of Sydney, Hems is now one in every of 4 principals at Proper Lane alongside Michael Livingstone, Zoe Pappas, and Gemma Pinnell, with Chiara Lawry serving as CEO because the consulting agency transitioned to a basis and employee-owned construction in 2022 consistent with its B Corp standing. Katie Riuli and Helena McGeorge, each ex-Deloitte, are affiliate principals.
Different recruits
On the different finish of the pecking order, Proper Lane Consulting has additionally in latest months added no less than one pair of senior associates, together with Ben Johnston, who joined the agency from EY in its rising Sydney workplace towards the tip of final yr, and Priyadarshini Bose, who crossed from her affiliate position within the Melbourne workplace of worldwide administration consultancy Kearney firstly of January.
“I’m proud to have discovered a job in a agency that’s aligned with my values throughout a interval the place consulting jobs are laborious to return by,” Johnston mentioned upon becoming a member of, notably including; “I’m all the time open for a chat if anybody desires to speak a few profession transition after beginning out at a Large 4. I owe so much to all of the individuals who agreed to talk with me over the twelve months it took me to plot my subsequent transfer.”
