How would you know if your employees are coping with life's ups and downs when your organisation is going through major change? And how would you even know there is a problem? From experience, most organisations suffer from 'workplace pressure' and quite often do not have a solution. It's not just workplace pressure why employees don't show up to work: - parenting - work / life balance - sleep issues - healthy lifestyle All of these are contributing factors to these scary statistics: - 1 in 5 Australians suffer from a mental illness - 7 Australians take their own lives everyday (75% are men) - Domestic violence against women is a serious problem in Australia I created "UNLEASH" as an option for organisations to get support for their employees to assist in overcoming some of these issues. We have just implemented this into Telstra. One of my main passions in life is to help individuals unleash their potential when it comes to their mental health and wellbeing. I believe it's so important for us to know how to reach our optimal level...running a small business and parenting 4 children, I get my fix by heading out for a Kite Surf afterwork and on weekends.

Director & Founder @ We consult with organisations to uncover typical workplace challenges that affect your employees ability to thrive. We aim to build resilient workforces through a program of tools & resources housed on a secure online platform. We believe a resilient workforce is - A productive workforce. - Healthy, energetic, durable, and enthusiastic. - Full of resilient workers who are “fast, friendly, flexible, and focused.” UNLEASH supports your employees to: - Build awareness about their own resilience - Reduce the negative impacts of stress & workplace pressure - Support successful change & helps build more positive relationships UNLEASH supports your People Leaders to: - Understand and deal responsibly with mental health issues in the workplace - Build competence and confidence in areas of mental health and safety at work - Ultimately become advocates & champions for the UNLEASH program within their teams UNLEASH provides your organisation the capability to: - Help build more positive customer outcomes through increased individual engagement - Help empower your people to build sustainable, healthier habits - Help your organisation become a recognised leader in mental health & wellbeing at work - Identify risk in employee wellbeing and build evidence based solutions to make a real difference From September 2013 to Present (2 years 3 months) Melbourne Area, AustraliaTHRIVE Architect & Program Lead @ Defined, Designed, Developed and Delivered Telstra's Resilience Program "THRIVE" which will be accessible for all employees in February 2016. The main objective of THRIVE is to reduce risk associated to work pressure through building employee awareness of their own resilience and provide tools and resources to improve and identify psychological risk across the organisation. The secure data captured helps build evidenced based programs to make a real difference. The program was piloted across 535 employees, results suggested a 22% increase of awareness on resilience based indicators such as: "Understanding on resilience and how it refers to my workplace" and "Understanding what an unhelpful thought is and how to reframe it" From November 2014 to November 2015 (1 year 1 month) Melbourne Area, AustraliaProgram Manager @ Leading the engagement program to build better awareness of Health, Safety and Environment practices for our people and customers at home, at work and at play. Simplified the product and service offering of HSE back into the business. Developed a risk matrix by Line of Business. Developed a concept to engage, measure and map an employee’s health, positivity and connectedness so it could be correlated across Telstra’s customer NPS (Customer Satisfaction) results. Presented scope to combat the high percentage of unplanned absenteeism rates within the Global Contact Centre Business Unit. From November 2013 to April 2014 (6 months) Melbourne Area, AustraliaNational Recruitment & Relationship Manager @ Led a team of 23 professionals to deliver a 'Global Best Practice' recruitment solution for Telstra Operations which consists of 17,000 employees. Established a 'trusted advisor' approach to relationships across Telstra Operations, ensuring to build advocacy and early escalation of issues. Managed & delivered on multiple projects including: NPS Implementation, IT Careers Fair, IP Insourcing Program, BEI Engagement Program, Project GAP, Customer Advocacy Program. From January 2011 to September 2013 (2 years 9 months) Melbourne Area, AustraliaBusiness Relationship Partner - Recruitment Process Outsourcing & Managed Service Provider @ Educating organisations about Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO). RPO provides organisations with their own leading recruitment capability, combining highly skilled recruiters, the latest technology, sophisticated processes and the expertise to source market-leading talent. The services are tailored to support all recruitment needs: permanent, contractor management, graduate, volume and short-term. From July 2010 to January 2011 (7 months) Melbourne Area, AustraliaNational Recruitment Account Manager & Relationship Manager @ Creating & Delivering on a best practice approach to search, selection, attraction and on-boarding of IT consultants & professionals for Australia Post and Accenture. Partnered with these organisations to deliver on complex programs of work: Australia Post Projects: Implemented an induction and contractor management program. Presented, negotiated and implemented a pay-rolling solution that initiated cost savings of $2M+. Partnered with the program office to win external bids. Accenture Projects:Implemented a down-stream supplier agreement. Designed, Tested & Implemented a contractor transition program that initiated cost savings of $2M+. Developed a costing model for trainers for the Telstra Learning Academy which had projections of $5M+ cost savings over the 3 year contract. From July 2007 to June 2010 (3 years) Melbourne Area, AustraliaSenior Recruitment Consultant @ Helping corporate clients seek best in class talent within the IT industry. Clients include: Australia Post, BHP Biliton, Smorgon Steel, Cadbury, Kraft Foods From 2005 to 2007 (2 years) Melbourne Area, AustraliaRecruitment Account Manager @ Helping organisations search, attract and obtain talent within the IT Industry. Clients include: Smorgon Steel, Australia Post, Ford Australia From January 2001 to January 2003 (2 years 1 month) Melbourne Area, Australia

Associate's Degree @ CAL - College of Adult Learning From 2009 to 2010 Bachelor's Degree @ Australian Catholic University From 1993 to 1995 Kristen Graham is skilled in: Leadership, Technical Recruiting, Business Intelligence, Contract Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Recruiting, Management, Outsourcing, Business Development, Business Analysis, Team Leadership, Process Improvement, Stakeholder Management, CRM