The session brings together three local advisers with complementary expertise.

Anushka Mahindapala | Founder, Decision Consulting

decisionconsultingau.com

Anushka is a CPA (Aus) and CIMA (UK) qualified finance professional with 18 years experience at Westpac across financial planning and analysis, business partnering, forecasting, performance reporting and investment governance. Her experience includes helping leaders understand financial performance, evaluate tradeoffs and make better informed decisions. Through Decision Consulting, she now works as a Finance Partner to growing service businesses, helping owners better understand financial performance and the financial implications of important business decisions.

For the event, Anushka will bring the Finance lens, helping participants consider what a decision will really cost, what needs to be true for it to be worthwhile, whether the business can fund it, and what happens if assumptions are wrong.

Natalie Forbes | Owner and HR Consultant, CulturePath HR

Natalie is an accomplished People & Culture leader with over 18 years of HR experience, spanning global organisations, senior executive roles, and complex operational environments.

Before founding CulturePath HR, Natalie built her career leading People & Culture functions within large organisations, where she became known for her clear communication, practical decision‑making, and her ability to guide leaders through challenging people issues. Her professional background includes extensive experience in employee relations, organisational culture, leadership capability and coaching, as well as partnering with senior leaders to develop high‑performing teams–expertise she now brings directly to small and medium businesses.

Natalie’s values of honesty, respect and clarity are central to her work, and she founded CulturePath HR to give business owners accessible, commercially sound HR support without the cost of an internal HR team.

For the event, Natalie will bring the People lens, helping participants pressure test any decision including AI investment - by examining the people, culture, capability and organisational implications. Making sure that business owners don't make decisions that look efficient on paper but quietly fail because the business wasn't ready.

Brianna Ragel | Founder, CurateClarity

curateclarity.com.au

Brianna is an MBA-qualified customer strategy, communications and engagement leader with more than 20 years’ experience across brand, product, marketing, communications, customer experience and experience design. Her background spans consulting, in-house and advisory roles across technology, professional services, property, automotive, health and care, education and community services. Through CurateClarity, she works with organisations to turn customer and stakeholder insight into practical strategy and action.

For the event, Brianna will bring the Customer lens, helping participants consider who a decision is really for, which customer groups it will affect, what problem it needs to solve, how it could influence experience, trust and reputation, and whether it creates meaningful value for the people the business exists to serve.

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