The team at The OPUS Centre is dedicated to using evidence-based methods to improve psychological safety in the workplace.
The OPUS Centre Consultancy Team
Kelly Bennetta
Consultant
BIO
Kelly Bennetta is an experienced safety consultant and public sector professional with a diverse background spanning water management, local government, and financial services. In her role as a Wellbeing Specialist at SA Water she contributed to strategic initiatives for psychosocial safety across the organisation. Her work continued at the City of Onkaparinga as an Injury Management and Wellbeing Consultant where she played a key role in worker psychological health and safety.
Transitioning into consultancy, Kelly Bennetta joined The Opus Centre, leveraging her public sector experience to advise clients on psychosocial safety governance, compliance, and organisational development. She is currently the Psychosocial Safety Lead at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, where she applies her multidisciplinary expertise to support worker psychosocial health and safety.
Tim Moran
Strategic Consultant
BIO
Tim Moran is a seasoned executive and strategic advisor with over two decades of experience leading complex programs and initiatives across government, health, education, not-for-profit, and corporate sectors. Currently working as a Principal Consultant, Tim helps organisations translate their aspirations into actionable strategies that deliver meaningful outcomes for communities and people. Known for his calm leadership and sound judgment, he excels in building partnerships, designing operational roadmaps, and driving transformation at both enterprise and systems levels.
Tim’s career highlights include leading the national mental health in education initiative, Be You, during his tenure at Beyond Blue. He successfully negotiated and managed government funding agreements totaling nearly $250 million, oversaw the development of digital platforms and program content, and led a distributed workforce of over 100 staff. His work has consistently focused on creating sustainable, high-impact programs that improve mental health and wellbeing across Australia.
With an Executive MBA from AGSM @ UNSW Business School and a Bachelor of Business Studies from Monash University, Tim combines academic rigor with practical leadership. His expertise spans strategy execution, program management, business transformation, and stakeholder engagement. Whether advising start-ups or established organisations, Tim brings a thoughtful, solutions-focused approach that inspires trust and drives lasting change.
Sebastian Merino
Consultant (Chile)
Bio
Sebastián Merino is a Lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and holds an LL.M in Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution from University College London (United Kingdom). He is also a labor arbitrator and member of the Labor Arbitrators Registrar of Chile.
He has over 10 years of experience specializing in labor law and social security, advising both companies and employees on individual and collective matters in Chile and the United Kingdom. His career combines private sector expertise with a comprehensive understanding of public policy.
Between September 2019 and March 2022, Sebastián served as Chief of Advisors at the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of Chile. In this role, he gained a 360° perspective of labor and social security law, leading the advisory team that designed and implemented emergency legislation and public policies to protect jobs and support economic recovery during the October 2019 social unrest and the Covid-19 pandemic.
As the CEO and founder of ZM Consultores Laborales, Sebastián has developed a practice focused on labor law consulting in both Chile and Australia, and on the strategic management of psychosocial risks. His work integrates his legal expertise with preventive and strategic approaches to labor, safety, and occupational health risk management, bridging compliance with organizational strategy for organizations.
Leah Heath
Consultant
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Shannon Nolan
Consultant
BIO
Shannon Nolan is a Social Worker and Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant. She is passionate about demystifying the process of building and embedding evidence-informed and sustainable workplace mental health strategies.
She has extensive experience translating research into practice relating to:
- psychosocial risk management
- workplace mental health strategies and interventions
- lived experience, mental health champion programs
- education and development for health and wellbeing roles, boards, senior leaders, people leaders, and all staff groups.
Shannon has a friendly demeanour, and is known for her ability to ‘cut through’ and authentically engage with senior executive teams through to frontline operations.
Pippa Rose
Consultant
BIO
Pippa is an AHPRA Registered Occupational Therapist with qualifications in Health and Safety and a Qualified Lead Auditor of Safety Management Systems including ISO 45003:2021 (Management of Psychosocial Risks). Pippa has worked in workplace health, safety and wellbeing for over 20 years and specialises in translating evidence-informed approaches to workplace psychological health into practical, co-designed strategies and high-impact solutions.
Pippa has held leadership positions for leading mental health not-for-profits Beyond Blue and SuperFriend, specialising in workplace psychological health, safety and wellbeing. These roles involved in co-designed strategy and resource development, research, advocacy and stakeholder engagement together with delivering highly valued, best practice solutions and consulting assignments with measurable impact.
Prior to this, Pippa was the national manager of a specialised business unit of workplace health and safety and injury management experts at Konekt, working with businesses to address issues and implement solutions on all aspects of injury prevention, claims management and risk mitigation across the employee lifecycle.
Most recently, Pippa has partnered with workplaces from a range of industry types and sizes undertaking psychosocial risk assessments, strategy development, action plan co-design, job task analyses and capability building around people leadership and psychosocial risk management.
Helena (Chen) Erck
Strategic Advisor and Mental Fitness Speaker
BIO
Helena (Chen) Erck is a strategic advisor in workplace wellbeing and mental fitness. With over 16 years’ experience across global brands and social enterprises, and having being immersed in the industry excellence of mental health organisations like the Black Dog Institute and beyondblue, she combines strategy with empathy to unlock cultural transformation and lasting wellbeing.
Her systems-level perspective is informed by experience in management consulting, managing multi-million dollar partnerships portfolios and experience as a business owner and board member. This, combined with her lived experience of supporting others’ mental health, enables Helena to deeply understand the pressures leaders face. As former Workplace Engagement Manager at the Black Dog Institute, Helena advised hundreds of companies on creating psychologically safe environments and delivering evidence-based programs.
As a current speaker on mental fitness for the Black Dog Institute, and founder of her own wellness ventures, Helena empowers youth, parents and community leaders to thrive through values-aligned living. She believes work can be a place of recovery and growth—not just performance.
Andrew Mansfield
Consultant
BIO
Andrew Mansfield is a provisional psychologist with a strong foundation in governance, compliance, and financial services. His early career spanned a range of roles in major Australian banks and consultancy firms, where he specialised in financial advice remediation, compliance, and coaching.
Building on this experience, Andrew has transitioned into the psychology field, supporting clinical practice and completing placements focused on psychosocial risk and human factors. He is currently researching the mental health impacts of digital surveillance on remote workers. Andrew now brings his multidisciplinary background to consulting roles focused on workplace mental health, safety, and system design.
Fiona Andrew
Consultant
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Fiona Andrew is a registered psychologist with over 15 years of experience in workplace psychology and psychosocial safety. She has held senior roles across industries including healthcare, government, transport, and agriculture, and previously led mental health and wellbeing at Australia Post. Fiona is known for her strategic, evidence-based approach to fostering mentally healthy workplaces and has contributed to national initiatives such as the ‘Healthy Heads in Trucks and Sheds’ strategy. She specialises in psychosocial risk management, mental health education, and stakeholder engagement, helping organisations meet regulatory obligations and drive meaningful change.
Aislin Campbell
Consultant
BIO
Aislin Campbell is a Registered Psychologist with over a decade of experience in psychosocial safety. She holds a Master’s in Organisational Psychology and has led research projects on employee psychological health and wellbeing.
As a former Chief Advisor for a state health and safety regulator, Aislin led the digitisation of the People at Work psychosocial risk assessment tool and contributed to the Managing the Risk of Psychosocial Hazards at Work Code of Practice 2022. She also developed Australia’s first integrated workplace mental health toolkit from a safety regulator. Aislin has also designed successful psychosocial safety strategies and systems for public and private sector organisations as an employee and external consultant. Aislin is passionate about supporting workplaces to create workplaces that are psychologically healthy and safe.
Meg Keily
Consultant
BIO
Meg Keily is a Registered Psychologist specialising in psychosocial safety. Since 2005, she has gained extensive experience in this area across small, medium and large-sized businesses, including the not-for-profit sector. Meg understands the real-world challenges businesses face in creating psychologically healthy and safe workplaces.
During her career, Meg has been instrumental in building industry capability to reduce psychosocial risks and sustain mentally healthy workplaces. Her extensive experience within the health and safety regulator in Queensland has given her a front row seat to how psychological health and safety has evolved over the last two decades, as well as the opportunity to influence key reform and legislative initiatives that have put this important area “on the map”. Notably this includes serving as a technical lead in Queensland’s Managing the Risk of Psychosocial Hazards at Work Code of Practice 2022 and the nationally acclaimed People at Work risk assessment process.