Vanessa Giannos MASHRM,MCIPD

Vanessa is a HR and Human Growth Guru, having developed a wealth of HR, people development and strategic knowledge from her local and global HR experiences over the last 22 years.

Vanessa was a founding Executive in the inception and start up of gizmo, Australia’s leading home computer support provider.  Vanessa has held senior HR positions in a breadth of industries and size of companies, including Telecommunications, Technology and Retail organisations within Australia and the U.K.

With phenomenal passion, strong business acumen and strategic skills, Vanessa takes a pragmatic approach with executive teams and has delivered tremendous results around building high performance cultures, strong employee engagement, increased profitability and, performance, communication, service excellence, leadership capability, knowledge management and team building.

As well as being an International Master Coach, Vanessa has a strong demonstrable record in HR, Executive, Business & Professional Coaching and Training & Development.  Vanessa holds a Masters in Human Resources Management, is a senior member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (UK), holds three formal coaching qualifications and is a qualified DiSC & MBTI qualified facilitator.

Vanessa specialises in Strategic Human Resources, Leadership, Business Improvement, Performance & People Management, Talent Management, Employee & Customer Engagement, M&A, Business Planning, Strategic & Operational Planning, Change Management, Communication, Leadership, Soft Skill Development & Training as well as Executive, Business and Professional Coaching. 

Vanessa is the Principal of My Performance Coach, plays an active role as Steering Committee member on FITT (Females in IT&T) and leads FITT’s Mentoring and Skill development program.

Vanessa’s thesis on HR strategy and knowledge management was ground breaking and has been used by a number of researchers to further develop the field of both HR strategy and the role of HR in managing one of the most important aspects of any business – knowledge.