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OUR TEAM

With our head office in Melbourne and affiliates in all other states, Psylutions can deliver its services to various locations for organisations across Australia and New Zealand. We have a large team of consultants all of whom are registered psychologists. This means we bring expertise in psychometric and behavioural assessment and everyone who works with us is bound by the Australian Psychological Society Professional Code of Ethics. So far, we have built out network to a team of over 40 Associates in Australia and New Zealand.

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Prue Laurence
Director & Consulting Psychologist

Prue Laurence is the Director and Principal Consulting Psychologist with Psylutions. She plays an integral role in the design and implementation of the suite of Psylutions services. Her responsibilities include account management, project management, design and implementation of assessment and development solutions, feedback and coaching. Preferring to work closely with her clients, Prue is passionate about ensuring they receive tailored and seamless delivery of Psylutions services.

A registered psychologist, Prue has over 12 years of business consulting experience within both the government and commercial fields. She has worked across a number of industries including banking and finance, manufacturing, FMCG, resources and mining. Her clients have included the National, ANZ, Cadbury Schweppes, National Foods, Ford, Shell, QNI and a number of local and federal government departments. She specialises in behavioural and psychological assessment for selection and development and having worked in both global and boutique consulting firms, her experience provides her with strong capability in managing and implementing projects such as large scale graduate selection projects to one-on-one coaching and facilitation of mid level and executive management.

  • Registered Psychologist (AHPRA) PSY0001124224
  • Full Member of the Australian Psychological Society # 111300
  • MCrim (Forensic Psychology), University of Melbourne (2005)
  • MPsych (Applied), University of New South Wales (1997)
  • BA (Hons Psych), University of Adelaide (1995)
   
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Nicole Russom
Consulting Psychologist

Nicole Russom is a consulting psychologist at Psylutions. Her key responsibilities include account management, project management, and coordination of Psylutions' psychometric assessment services. She specialises in assessment centre design and places a strong emphasis on determining client needs and ensuring that the services she delivers meet those requirements.

Nicole is also knowledgeable in psychometric testing, and is experienced in test development and analysis, administration in both group and individual settings, and interpretation of candidate results. She is also practiced in the development of training programs and behavioural interviewing. Nicole is passionate about working from a scientist-practitioner basis, ensuring that the services she offers are based on solid research and that the tools Psylutions offers are valid and reliable measures.

  • Registered Psychologist (AHPRA) PSY0001127623
  • Master of Organisational Psychology, Monash University , 2007
  • Bachelor of Applied Science (Psych) (Hons), RMIT University , 2005
  • Bachelor of Social Science (Psych), RMIT University , 2004
  • Full Member of the Australian Psychological Society # 038517
   
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Ben Westcott
Office Manager and Assessment Coordinator

With several years experience working with ACT Government under his belt, Ben is well versed in working with clients to achieve the best outcome for them. During his employment at the Patient Safety and Quality Unit he specialised in dealing with consumers in highly stressful situations. After moving to Melbourne at the beginning of 2010, Ben joined the crew at Psylutions in April and has enjoyed helping them provide professional services to a number of high profile business partners across Australia.
   
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Katie Westcott - Office Manager and Assessment Coordinator

Katie is an administration officer and first point of contact at Psylutions. After a number of years in the retail sector, she has moved into corporate environment hoping to gain experience in business and client services. Katie is concurrently completing a Bachelor of New Generation Arts at the University of Melbourne and Diploma of Commercial Arts at CATC. She enjoys the challenge of working in such a developing area and looks forward to her morning coffee.
   

Rod Whitfield - Report Writer

Rod Whitfield forms an integral part of the Psylutions Assessment team as our key report writer. SHL and Saville accredited, Rod specialises in competency based reports that are targeted to the specific job or industry. Rod has over ten years of sales, management and business experience, in such diverse industries as recruitment, banking and finance, retail, and communications. Prior to joining Psylutions, he worked at ANZ and Esanda as a National Account Manager in Mortgages and brings with him keen skills in negotiation, client liaison and a focus on superior customer service.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Would you like to join our Australia and New Zealand virtual/contract team? We are always looking for passionate psychologists experienced in behavioural assessment for job selection and development purposes. If this sounds like you, send your resume to info@psylutions.com.au