Gerard Ward

”Gerard’s vision is for Testgrid to be a source of guidance in assisting its customers to achieve success. His passion is helping organisations to deliver efficient and lean recruitment processes, putting the right person in the right job.”

Gerard is an inspirational leader that adopts a collaborative partnership approach in working with his clients. He is an expert in HR Technology and has a practical, hands-on understanding of assessment products, recruitment processes and online technology solutions.

As the Managing Director, Gerard is responsible for developing strategic plans to advance the company’s objectives, values and mission. Through his leadership, the business has grown significantly to become one of the leading HR technology and assessment companies in Australia.

The 3 principals that Gerard follows to differentiate him from other leaders are:

• Value, support and trust every employee.
• Be humble. Be honest. Be authentic.
• Never stop learning. Always look for better ways or new years to do things.

Dina Ward

“Dina’s passion is driving and improving Diversity and Inclusion policies and practices across organisations, to allow Testgrid’s clients to realise the benefits of a diverse workplace.”

Dina has extensive experience in strategic planning and operational excellence, people recruitment, management and development best practices. She is also a registered Psychologist.

As the Chief People Officer, Dina is responsible for the people side of the company. She also leads the Psychology team. She works with them to review and improve the Testgrid service offerings, enhance reporting tools, develop assessment centre content and specialist recruitment processes.

She works closely with Testgrid’s clients to design and support strategic recruitment processes, construct and facilitate diversity and unconscious bias training that drive inclusive hiring and ROI.

Dina’s passion in the following makes her an exceptional leader/consultant:

• Improving gender diversity in the workplace = improving performance.
• Removing unconscious bias is imperative for organisations to hire effectively.
• Having an inquisitive mind.

Will Ainsley

“Will believes in taking time to understand the clients, being responsive and doing what you say you are going to do. He is passionate in driving excellence customer experience and helping them to achieve the best outcomes.”

Will is a respected Sales and Customer Success professional with 20 years of customer growth and account management experience in Technology, HR and Talent Management, Managed Services and Public sectors.

Will leads the Sales and Marketing teams and is responsible for ensuring the ongoing growth and development of Testgrid. In close collaboration with his clients, Will consults with them to uncover their core challenges, brainstorms and creates bespoke solution to solve their problems.

Will is committed to his two key goals of ensuring all of Testgrid’s clients:

• Achieve success through their people
• Receive responsive service, time after time

To do so, Will adheres to his 3 principals:

• Keep things simple.
• Keep his promises.
• Keep looking for ways to improve processes and systems to get better outcomes.

Kellie Stoopman

Kellie is customer focussed leader with over 20 years’ experience leading multi-channel business growth and transformation projects in corporate and small business settings. She has a passion for helping people unlock their potential and supporting our customers do the same!Kellie is responsible for our amazing customer facing teams at Testgrid, who take pride in delivering responsive support, expert advice and customized solutions – from implementation through to continuous improvement.Kellie believes building strong partnerships starts with a deep awareness of client goals and a shared focus on creating long-term value.Some of Kellie’s guiding principles / daily inspiration;

• Trust and empower your team. Make their success your goal.
• Listen to learn. Feedback is priceless information.
• The journey is as important as the outcome. Strive to make customer experiences engaging, efficient and effective.

David Clarkson

“David is a highly professional marketer, who is passionate about sharing the benefits of psychometric testing and its ability to promote inclusivity and diversity.”

David is responsible for all communications for Testgrid and sharing insights that help our customers make informed hiring decisions. He believes that it his duty to find problems and pain points in each of our customers industries and provide solutions that empower business through their people

David works to the principles below:

• Always provide customers with actionable information
• Connect communications with customers by listening to the voice of the customer

Christie Lum

“With over 20 years of experience, Christie is a seasoned organisational psychologist specialising in psychometrics, leadership development, and organizational development. She has amassed extensive expertise through her roles in research, consulting, and academia.”

As the Head of the People Insights team, Christie leads a dedicated group of consultants in providing top-notch psychometric assessment services for both recruitment and development purposes. Her unwavering commitment lies in helping clients achieve success through the provision of the best psychometric assessments and the delivery of these essential services.

Christie firmly believes that the following factors are vital for success:

• Upholding high standards: Christie emphasises the importance of maintaining exceptional standards in all aspects of work, ensuring quality and excellence in every endeavour.
  Embracing continuous improvement: With a growth-oriented mindset, Christie encourages a culture of continuous improvement, constantly seeking ways to provide the best products and services.
• Client-centric approach: Christie places great emphasis on understanding and meeting the unique needs of clients, prioritising their requirements and tailoring services to best serve them.
• Through Christie’s unwavering dedication to these core principles, she strives to bring about impactful and successful outcomes for clients.

Sean Ogden Power

“As the technical face of Testgrid, Sean is passionate in developing and enhancing services to meet clients’ needs, improving the already high client satisfaction and empowering them to achieve success through their people.”

With over 20 years’ experience working with local and international companies, Sean has extensive experience in all aspects of system development life cycle (SDLC), different programming languages and various project methodologies.

Sean partners with the clients to develop unique solutions, He leads the Agile Development Team and works closely with them to guide the technical direction of Testgrid’s core applications; maintain and enhance the assessment platform and ensure the system and data is secured. He also focuses on streamlining processes and navigating the right balance between cost and performance for the system.

Sean prides himself for his creative problem-solving skills and aptitude for learning. The 3 principles that he follows in ensuring he succeed in work are:

• Staying true to who you are and being humble.
• Helping the team to thrive by making sure everyone is valued.
• Never automatically say no. Rather, try to find a workable solution.

Stuart Boyd

“Stuart pride himself for his abilities in designing talent acquisition and development strategies that provide tangible Return-Of-Investment (ROI) to their existing and new clients, in order to enable them to make faster and smarter decisions and empower them to achieve success through their people.”

Stuart is a highly experienced professional skilled in Business Planning, Business Development, Operations Management, Learning Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

As the Head of Business Development, Stuart is responsible for working with clients in designing and implementing custom solutions, ensuring each solution delivers tangible benefits and assisting them to achieve their business objectives.

The key to Stuart’s success are:

• His down to earth personality.
• He adopts a collaborative approach in working with his team, clients and partners.
• His ability to ask relevant questions, listen to clients’ challenges, take time to fully understand each business’s individual requirements.