KARA WISE

Director, Commercial Partnerships and Mental Health

Kara Wise is the Commercial Partnerships and Mental Health of HSE Global and has over 25 years’ experience helping organisations in the commercial, government and private sectors execute strategic solutions to realise business objectives and outcomes.

Kara is an internationally recognised customer-centric executive leader fluent at leading innovative business growth solutions and new product initiatives. She has expertise in driving customer channel strategy, business development, and market expansion—all while delivering results in both new and declining markets. Kara has been recently working with organisations and safety authorities in Australia, New Zealand, USA and South Africa to assess and implement programs to proactively address safety culture change, process safety initiatives, employee mental health and physical wellbeing in the workplace.

Her deep academic, technical, and specialist knowledge is balanced with strong commercial acumen earned from developing over 100 new products, solutions, and sales processes. She established and chaired the Global Thought Leadership Committee with numerous international Logistic and Transport Authorities and has a proven history of mobilising individuals and teams on the change journey, empowering success through inspiration and competency building, and engendering passion and loyalty from teams to deliver maximum efficiency and financial outcomes.

As a trusted advisor and regular keynote speaker at industry conferences and client forums, Kara has guided many of Australia’s franchise operations, local councils, community groups, top 100 ASX organisations, defence and government entities on growth strategies, innovation systems, multi-channel media convergence, direct marketing, consumer behaviour, customer

engagement strategy, omni-channel communication optimisation, health & safety strategies and business efficiency programs.

Kara is a former senior lecturer and subject leader on marketing, consumer behaviour, strategy, and research methodology at both Swinburne and Monash universities. She holds a master’s in business marketing from Monash University and a post-graduate degree in design thinking from Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

She is also an accredited Mental Health First Aider. Kara resides in Melbourne Australia and is committed to fitness, family and friends.