The leading network of Health, Human Service and Public Sector Leaders.
Our Executive Search & Recruitment network is unrivalled, and by engaging HG we connect our clients to the best talent from around the world. As the competition for talent intensifies, domestically and globally, our clients trust in our ability to secure a successful and timely appointment, the first time, every time.
Executive Search & Recruitment Services
Board Chair and Director Appointments
As Boards navigate an increasingly complex operating and regulatory environment so too is the need to elevate and refresh boardroom capabilities. HG’s extensive track record in governance appointments includes the formation of inaugural Boards in response to major government reforms at scale at a whole of system level and at a multi-district level. We are also expert in supporting the timely refresh of existing Boards.
Chief Executive and C-Suite Appointments
With our extensive and current networks, built up over decades, and team of Principal Search Consultants from the sectors we serve, HG is the leading trans-Tasman agency for Chief Executive and C-Suite appointments. This also includes all key enabling services such as IT, Digital, Finance, Legal, People & Culture and more. Our tailored approach ensure a successful and sustained appointment every time.
Management Appointments
Our networks are not only extensive, they are also very deep and this gives great confidence to our clients we can know who tomorrow’s future executives are today. By engaging HG for management level appointments, we deliver a field of candidates already proven at a team leader, management or director level and who exhibit the capabilities to also aide your organisation in future succession planning.
Clinical and Medical Appointments
Sourcing and attracting top talent for leadership positions within clinical and medical specialties requires deep expertise and never more so then now given global workforces shortages in healthcare. To ensure your success HG adopts a team approach that includes specialist Principal Consultants and Senior Researchers who will work tirelessly and creatively on your behalf to achieve the result you need.
Public Sector Leadership Appointments
Public sector appointments at a Chief Executive and C-Suite level can and do attract significant political, stakeholder and media scrutiny and navigating that requires Search agencies to have a unique set of capabilities. HG is a trusted and proven partner to government for the most senior leadership appointments including Environment, Revenue, Ethnic Communities, Disability, Health, Internal Affairs and to Royal Commissions of Inquiry.
Diagnostics
HG is invested in the long term success of your organisation and has built a suite of diagnostic capabilities to support the ambition of executive leadership that is practical and grounded in real time, real world environments. These diagnostic options and tools mean you are working with evidence and reflective practice.
HG’s Panel Partnerships
HG is a trusted advisor and provider of permanent and interim recruitment solutions for clients across Australia and New Zealand. In circumstances which require it, HG can also be your partner of choice by engaging us through the following government panels.
WA Country Health Service Panel
SA Recruitment Agency Services Panel
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Panel
Executive Recruitment Panel
Central Australia Health Service Panel
All of Government Talent Acquisition Services (TAS) contract.
NSW Government Talent Acquisition Scheme
LGA Procurement – Labor hire and recruitment Services
Recruitment and Immigration Agency Panel Primary Agency – Canberra Health Services
Local Buy Pre-qualified Supplier
The Management Advisory Services (MAS) Panel
Industries we serve
Public Health
Private Health
Primary & Community Care
Aged Care
Disability Services
Public Sector
Meet our Principal Consultants
HG’s Principal Search Consultants have held Chief and Senior Executive roles within the industries we serve. Their extensive leadership profiles enable them to swiftly establish trust and rapport with both clients and candidates, clearly understand the roles they have been asked to recruit to and importantly, the organisational and environmental context in which they exist.
Our evidenced based search methodology, extensive networks and talented team have led to the successful placement of 4,000+ executives.
Lynette Taylor
Executive Director, Search & Recruitment
A senior executive leader with experience in private and public sectors across health, logistics and human resource sectors. With nearly two decades of experience as a senior executive in a multinational company, Lynette brings a comprehensive global and commercial perspective to her role, focusing on the attraction, retention, and development of executive-level candidates.
Paul Ingle
Chief Executive Officer
Paul Ingle is the Chief Executive Officer of HG. In addition to his leadership responsibilities, he conducts senior executive and board recruitment assignments and facilitates HG’s Executive Learning Sets. Paul has been a Chief Executive in both the public and private sector for over 20 years, having worked in New Zealand, the UK and Australia. He brings a wealth of experience in supporting organisational leadership, reform, employee wellbeing, and cultural transformation.
Christine Leahy
Executive Director Leadership and Learning
Christine Leahy is a seasoned executive Human Resources specialist with over 25 years of experience in prestigious national and international corporations. Armed with a Bachelor of Commerce, she has played pivotal roles in HR, aiding companies in recruiting and retaining top-tier talent, thereby enhancing organizational culture and business performance. In addition to her leadership responsibilities, Christine conducts senior executive recruitment assignments and facilitates HG’s Executive Learning Sets.
Sarah Buckler
State Manager, Queensland
Sarah Buckler has an extensive background and in-depth understanding of the public sector in Australia and New Zealand. She has over twenty-five years of experience in executive leadership roles and appointments to advisory and governing boards across public, private and quasi-government boards and authorities. Sarah is a recipient of the Australia Day Honours and was awarded the Public Service Medal for her contributions to regional development, investment attraction, public sector administration, leadership, and governance.
David Price
National Manager, New Zealand
David Price is the National Manager of HG New Zealand. He is an internationally experienced senior leader and healthcare innovator known for pioneering system design, co-design, and patient experience reform across New Zealand, Australia, and the UK.
Liz Hlipala
Principal Search Consultant
Liz Hlipala has an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the healthcare sector in Australia today. She brings more than three decades of experience working in the healthcare sector at senior executive levels to any consultancy she undertakes. Liz has participated as an Executive Director of the governing boards and senior leadership teams of large health networks and the department of health in South Australia, given her an understanding of these complex organisations’ leadership and performance requirements.
Dr Karen Bridgewater
Senior Researcher
Karen is an academic researcher with experience investigating, designing, recruiting, conducting and reporting. Through her career, Karen has not only finely honed her academic and population-relevant research skills, but also forged relationships in the public and private health sectors, multiple universities, and non-government organisations. Consequently, Karen brings to HardyGroup a unique combination of established research excellence, and industry-relevant, highly valuable interpersonal relationship insights and skills.
Janine Hammat
Principal Search Consultant
Janine is a versatile senior human resources executive with many years’ experience at the executive level in both the public and private sectors. She is a proactive leader of people strategy and cultural alignment in diverse and complex organisations. Her knowledge across all facets of human resources and her ability to partner with other senior executives and staff, and to translate organisational strategy into pragmatic and operable outcomes, enables her to deliver quality results.
Pete Carter
Principal Search Consultant
Pete Carter has over 30 years of experience in health and social service leadership in New Zealand and Australia, much of that in senior roles within the public sector.
Pete has also spent many years on Boards of both Non-Government and Government organisations and has been actively involved consulting across the sector, particularly around leadership and governance.
Emma Hay
Principal Consultant Medical Specialist
An accomplished healthcare leader with extensive experience across clinical governance, quality and risk, organisational improvement and healthcare transformation. Emma combines clinical credibility with strong stakeholder engagement and a detailed understanding of complex healthcare environments. Her experience working with executives, clinicians and multidisciplinary teams provides valuable insight into the leadership capabilities required to deliver safe, effective and sustainable healthcare services.
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Recent Key Appointments
Organisations trust HardyGroup
to find great talent to deliver on their mission.
Professor Melanie Turner
Chief Psychiatrist | the Department for Health and Wellbeing.
Dr Christine Foley
General Manager, Clinical and Care Governance | UnitingCare Queensland.
Emma Joyce
Director of Nursing, Mental Health & Addictions | MidCentral Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora.
Greg Granger
General Manager, Rural Generalism and Primary Health Care | the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section.
Professor Melanie Turner
Chief Psychiatrist | the Department for Health and Wellbeing.
HG is delighted to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Melanie Turner as Chief Psychiatrist with the Department for Health and Wellbeing.
Melanie is an accomplished psychiatrist and senior health leader with extensive experience across clinical practice, government, academia, and statutory boards. A Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists with subspecialty qualifications in child and adolescent psychiatry, she brings deep expertise in mental health policy, clinical governance, and system reform.
Melanie has served as Deputy Chief Psychiatrist of South Australia since 2020, including periods acting in the Chief Psychiatrist role, where she has led statewide policy, standards, and investigations, alongside suicide prevention initiatives and system oversight. She has played a pivotal role in drafting key legislation and standards, including restraint and seclusion and sexual safety frameworks, and established the South Australian Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board as its Presiding Member.
Her broader contributions include board roles with Mental Health Australia and RANZCP, and executive leadership across digital health, advisory, and clinical settings.
HG is delighted for Melanie to continue her significant work with the Department for Health and Wellbeing.
Dr Christine Foley
General Manager, Clinical and Care Governance | UnitingCare Queensland.
HG is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Christine Foley as General Manager, Clinical and Care Governance with UnitingCare Queensland.
Dr Christine Foley is a highly regarded clinical governance executive with extensive experience leading safety, quality, risk, and patient experience functions across hospitals, aged care, community, family, and disability services. With a career spanning several decades in nursing and more than 20 years in executive clinical governance roles, she has built a strong reputation for driving enterprise-wide governance reform and embedding cultures of continuous improvement and evidence-based care.
Most recently, as Director of Clinical Governance at Mater Health, Christine led governance across a large multi-site health network, delivering an integrated clinical governance framework, introducing enterprise incident management and analytics systems, and achieving significant efficiencies through governance redesign. Previously, she served as Director of Clinical Governance with UnitingCare Queensland, where she led governance integration across diverse service streams and directed the organisation’s statewide COVID-19 clinical governance response.
Christine holds a PhD in Nursing, a Master of Health Management, and a Bachelor of Nursing, and is widely recognised for her expertise in governance, accreditation, quality improvement, and organisational transformation.
HG congratulates Dr Foley on her appointment and is delighted to support her in this important leadership role.
Emma Joyce
Director of Nursing, Mental Health & Addictions | MidCentral Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora.
HG is delighted to announce the appointment of Emma Joyce as Director of Nursing, Mental Health & Addictions at MidCentral Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora.
Emma is a highly respected mental health nursing leader, she brings extensive leadership experience across New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. Her career has encompassed senior clinical, operational and strategic roles across acute inpatient, community and specialist mental health services, with expertise in clinical governance, workforce development, service transformation and quality improvement.
Most recently, Emma served as Nurse Unit Manager with Queensland Health at Townsville University Hospital. Her previous leadership roles with Bay of Plenty District Health Board included leading service redesign initiatives, regional mental health planning and culturally responsive models of care in partnership with Māori Health Services and iwi.
Emma’s strong commitment to high-quality, person-centred mental health care, combined with her international experience and advanced nursing leadership qualifications, positions her well to lead nursing practice and support the ongoing development of mental health and addiction services across the region.
HG congratulates Emma on her appointment and wishes her every success in the role.
Greg Granger
General Manager, Rural Generalism and Primary Health Care | the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section.
HG is delighted to announce the appointment of Greg Granger as General Manager, Rural Generalism and Primary Health Care at the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section.
Greg brings more than 20 years of senior healthcare leadership experience spanning primary care, specialist health services, pathology, diagnostics, telehealth, and complex service operations. He has an outstanding track record leading multidisciplinary clinical teams, driving organisational transformation, strengthening clinical governance, and delivering sustainable financial growth across both public and private healthcare settings.
Most recently, Greg has served as General Manager of Clinic 66, one of Australia’s largest reproductive and sexual health providers, where he has led significant organisational renewal, expanded national telehealth services, strengthened quality and accreditation frameworks, and delivered substantial revenue growth. Prior to this, he was Director of Strategic Operations at Histopath Diagnostic Specialists, where he led large-scale COVID-19 response initiatives across New South Wales in partnership with government agencies and health services. Earlier executive roles include Chief of Operations at SydPath, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, where he held operational and financial accountability for a large multi-site pathology service employing more than 350 staff.
HG is delighted for Greg as he steps into this important leadership role with the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section.
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