Meet the Team

Col Duthie

After studying Maths and Education, Col has taught at senior secondary school, worked in community development, as a social entrepreneur and a consultant. He is an enthusiastic self educator who enjoys engaging the latest ideas about how the world works. As the Managing Director of Ergo Consulting, Col provides internal leadership as well as working with other organisations to help them toward greater effectiveness.

He is particularly energised by bringing together diverse groups of people to work through complex problems or engage in conversations about the things that matter most. The end game … a better day at work for individuals and a better future for the world.

In recent years, Col and Maria have been complementing urban living by experimenting with the simple life; travelling and living in a caravan as often as work and family permits. (www.duthie.net.au)

Read more about Col’s ideas on his blog.

Derek Winter

Derek is kept busy with a family of five young children. In between he grabs any chance to watch some soccer or cricket or regular game of squash. Since graduating with an Honours degree in Computer Science, Derek has gained extensive experience both nationally and internationally with a broad range of organisations focusing on enterprise-wide business solutions. Throughout the journey he has progressed from technical roles in design, development and delivery of software solutions through project management and pre-sales, to professional services management, channel management and account management. This background has provided a diverse set of skills which he calls upon as a Director of Ergo Consulting with a focus on business strategy, internal operations and business development.

Maria DiCocco

Maria joined the Ergo team in mid 2008. Her part time role includes office management, admin and support for the directors of the company. She has both education and counseling qualifications and recently spent a number of years working in the community service sector. When not working her favourite thing is to spend time with her partner Col (featured above) and their four children. Good books and good chocolate also feature as favourite pastimes.

Jeff Allen

Jeff plays ultimate frisbee and enjoys sports in general, he also likes the latest gadgets and seeing what technology has to offer. He has a degree in computer science with 5 plus years experience. Jeff develops software solutions that help organisations run more effectively.

Christer Anttila

When he’s not at work you can find Christer enjoying outdoor activities like mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing and camping. Christer studied economics, organisation theory and marketing at Lulea Technical University, worked with IT-System Support and IT-Systems Administration for the Swedish Road Administration and moved on to work as a IT-Systems Administrator and Developer for the Swedish Air force. He has worked for 3.5 years at Telstra developing and perfecting work management systems for Satellite, Mobile, Wireless broadband and telephony installations.

David Speed

David enjoys playing cricket and watching sport. He studied Multimedia Software Development at Swinburne University and his contribution to Ergo is that of a software developer working onsite at Telstra.

Chris Rogers

Chris enjoys spending time with his family – and with four young children, his house is never boring. His favourite leisure times usually involve some combination of outdoor life, friends, food, astronomy, science fiction and sport, with volleyball and squash among his regular sporting hobbies. Extensive travel through Europe, Africa and the Middle East sparked in him a fascination with other cultures and history.

Chris completed a degree in computer science in 1995, and in his subsequent years as a software developer, he has maintained and fueled a hunger for life-long, ongoing learning. He has gained significant experience in software analysis and design as well as implementing windows, linux and web applications. He revels in the creation of quality software and in both process and team improvement.

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Mohan Bhagwandas

Mohan joined the Ergo team in March 2008. He worked for many years in the IT industry as a business and marketing consultant in Australia and around the world. Prior to that, he worked for Initiatives of Change, an organisation engaged in International Trust Building, and was involved in high level consulting and advisory work on strategy and change management at a business and political level, specializing in conflict resolution in international affairs. Mohan brings his significant experience to help grow Ergo’s ‘Transformational Leadership’ and ‘Organisational Regeneration’ services. Currently he also devotes some of his time to coordinate Caux Initiatives for Business, a program that focuses on building “Trust and Integrity” in business. He is passionate about cricket, enjoys body-boarding at Fairhaven beach, loves reading six books at one time and has not given up learning to play the Tabla!

Shar Muys

As the founder of Speechless, Shar has recently returned from London where she worked with some of the world’s most established and renowned banks, accountancy firms and communication professionals, in the development of their internal and client communication.

Now extending this work into Australia, Shar has quickly established herself as a local leader in the field of communication training, working with clients such as BHP Billiton, nab, Babcock & Brown, Red Energy, KPMG, CSR, Melbourne Water, Boston Consulting Group, Peninsula Health, IBM and The Waite Group. Shar lectures at La Trobe University and RMIT Melbourne, Australia and holds a degree of Performing Arts [BPA], a Diploma of Education and a Diploma from Trinity College London.

Tracey Ezard

Tracey has spent most of her career assisting people in shifting mindset from one place to another. First as a teacher and school administrator, then in the hospitality and automotive industries, she has been passionate about encouraging people to find and celebrate the amazing things they have to offer. She works with leaders and teams to develop leadership capacity and improve outcomes within organisations. Tracey is accredited in MBTI and the Genos Emotional Intelligence instrument, and draws from a variety of methodologies, including NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) to assist in the development of learning opportunities for her clients. Tracey also uses graphic facilitation as a means of capturing group discussions, action plans and strategic conversations.

Bessi Graham

Bessi has an academic background focusing on international relations with specific interest and research in the leadership field. Her love of learning, research and writing has led her to undergraduate and post-graduate study in a multitude of areas including counter-terrorism, philosophy, politics, Aboriginal studies, Constitutional law and political Islam.

Bessi has travelled extensively and enjoys reading, music and spending time with her husband Brad and their children Izzy and Zeke.

Anjali Brown

Anjali started her career as a public servant after entering the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, the Department’s competitive Graduate Development Program. Since then, her work focus has been in the environmental sector. In 2007, Anjali managed a program to institute greater resource efficiency within the Victorian offices of a Commonwealth Government Department. Her most recent projects have been project managing the development of carbon-reduction and sustainability strategies for small to medium enterprises. Through her work and through studies within the Masters of Environment program at the University of Melbourne, Anjali has undertaken research and analysis of the carbon offset and carbon trading sectors as well as research into Australian environmental regulatory frameworks. Anjali has travelled to every continent (except Antarctica) including periods living in the USA and the UK. She is also an award winning professional dance instructor and enjoys languages.