Liam Hayes 

People & Culture

Liam joined the Wear for Success board in 2016 and is also the Chief People Officer at Aurecon. As part of Aurecon’s global leadership team he leads the People team, which focuses on providing solutions that enable Aurecon to attract the best talent and develop their people to meet our client’s current and future challenges.

At Aurecon his team partner with the Aurecon leadership team to execute culture change, organisational and leadership development strategies, and programmes such as the award-winning Mind Matters programme, which won the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) Award for Mental Health in the Workplace and the Māori cadet programme, which won the Māori and Pacifica Diversity award at the ‘Young at Heart’ Youth Employer Pledge Awards.

He loves the impact Wear for Success has on so many lives. The combination of his professional background and his passion for seeing people succeed enables Liam to make a positive contribution to Wear for Success, particularly regarding our volunteer workforce.

Margot Stevenson

Corporate and NFP Partnerships

Margot is an innovative and highly commercial executive HR leader. She has diverse experience leading national and global HR teams for corporate and not-for-profit organisations spanning employment services, higher education, technology, transport & logistics and financial services.

She has built organisational capability and created thriving cultures and she is passionate about enabling organisations to reach peak performance through highly engaged and motivated employees.

Margot leads the People and Culture function as Executive, People and Culture at Wise Employment, a national not-for-profit employment services provider, which connects and empowers job seekers and employers.

Margot joined the board as a Non-Executive Director at Wear for Success in 2018, where she also volunteers as a career coach, helping clients build confidence; supporting people on their journey towards employment and to realizing their potential.

Passionate about the work she does at Wise Employment and Wear for Success, Margot is proud to be part of organisations making a positive impact on the lives of less advantaged people in our community.

Edmund Waters

Board Secretary

Edmund is a qualified Australian lawyer with over a decade of in-house experience
with a major Australian healthcare organisation. Edmund also holds a Graduate
Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance from the Governance Institute of Australia
and is an Affiliate of the Chartered Governance Institute.

He has excellent regulatory, litigation, employment law, privacy and mergers and
acquisitions experience. In his current role, he provides governance advice and
company secretarial support to numerous boards.
Edmund is keen to support people to achieve their career goals, having managed
interns as part of the CareerTracker Indigenous Internship programme. He is
committed to Ready Set’s mission and making a positive impact on the lives of
jobseekers.

Peter Pryn

Treasurer / Financial Controller

A board member since 2016, Peter is a Chartered Accountant, business advisor and Director at Hall Chadwick Melbourne. He leads the firm’s finance, human resources, IT infrastructure and general management. He also manages the offshore outsourcing team and turnkey services offered in the Back Office Support team.

Peter has over 30 years experience as a Chartered accountant, both in industry and professional practice, including ten years running his own accountancy practice. Peter became a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in July 2008. Outside of work Peter has been actively involved in an array of community service groups, business chambers, sporting clubs and charity organisations over many years. In addition to sitting on the board, Peter volunteers as Treasurer and manages the financials for internal reporting requirements and ANC compliance.

Through Peter, Hall Chadwick provide much valued pro-bono accounting services to Wear for Success.

Simone Caylock

Legal Support

Simone Caylock is a Partner at Rigby Cooke Lawyers (Rigby Cooke) working within the Workplace Relations team, she joined the Wear for Success board in January 2020. She is an Accredited Workplace Relations Specialist with over 20 years of broad advisory and litigation experience in all aspects of employment, industrial relations and equal opportunity law.

Simone represents and advises employers and senior executives across a range of industries including professional services, manufacturing, transport and health.

Prior to joining Rigby Cooke, Simone was the National Workplace Relations Manager of Australia’s largest employer association and a director of its specialist employment law practice. She has also worked in international law firms and the Workplace Relations/Industrial Relations teams of organisations such as Amcor and Telstra.

Simone is described by many of her clients as a trusted business partner. This is a result of her combined legal/industry background and personal emphasis on working closely with each individual client to provide technically sound, practical and commercial solutions to their immediate and long-term employment challenges.

Wendy Draayers

Chief Executive Officer

Wendy Draayers joined Ready Set in February 2021. 

She has worked for over 30 years in senior roles across the education, not-for-profit, community and business sectors within Victoria, nationally and internationally. Wendy is passionate about driving innovation and creating sustainable positive change at both an individual and community level. For many years, her work has focussed on education as the most effective way to achieve this. Most recently Wendy has been employed as the Chief Executive Officer of the International Specialised Skills Institute.

Wendy is very excited to be joining the Ready Set team as their new CEO and looks forward to working with the Board, employees, volunteers, and stakeholders to grow the organisation and support more clients to reach their full potential and build the life they dream of.