Our Team

Lisa is the Managing Director of fibreHR and brings extensive experience from her work with a number of large organisations such as HSBC Investment Bank, Barclays Capital, Foster’s Group and The Just Group. She has worked in London, Melbourne and Adelaide across a range of sectors including banking, FMCG, communication, retail, property, consulting and IT industries.

As well as providing generalist HR services, Lisa has managed the international mobility and recruitment functions for a number of businesses. She has undertaken extensive work in business restructuring, policy development, and HR Information Systems management and reporting.

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts from Melbourne University, where she majored in Criminology and Politics.

“fibreHR is all about making people matter at every stage of the employment process. That involves going the extra mile and working with a business’ individual challenges and characteristics, no matter how complex.”

Kate Byrdy
Kate Byrdy

Senior HR Consultant

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Kate is an experienced HR practitioner with a demonstrated history of excellence in the retail, logistics, health and pharmaceutical industries at leadership levels, in both company and franchised businesses. She possesses comprehensive knowledge across all facets of Human Resources, with a focus on service delivery and value-add.

Her career reflects a deep commitment to enhancing organisational effectiveness and fostering positive workplace cultures, recognised both personally and team/organisation wide as a winner of HR Practitioner of the Year and Employer of Choice awards.

Clarissa Fraser
Clarissa Fraser

Senior HR Consultant

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Clarissa is an experienced and qualified HR and Talent leader, who has over 19 years of experience supporting businesses with all things people. Clarissa has a knack of calmly managing difficult situations and guiding leaders through the more challenging issues. Clarissa believes in using effective and creative HR strategies to help businesses transform their bottom-line performance.

Having previously worked for the fibreHR team for 5 years, Clarissa has recently re-joined the fibreHR team in July 2024. Clarissa has business partnered with several clients across a variety of industries and business sizes. Clarissa is an enthusiastic and results focused individual who enjoys providing outcomes for clients that will drive real change within their business.   

Clarissa is a true generalist at heart with a strong operational slant, and loves working across many aspects of HR particularly talent and leadership development, employee engagement and culture development.

Cathie Wareham
Cathie Wareham

Senior HR Consultant

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Cathie is a commercially pragmatic HR Practitioner, with over 30 years experience in HR leadership roles, including 15 years’ experience providing Human Resource leadership within a large publicly listed Australian company, providing expert advice and strategy across all aspects of human resource management, training and development, health and safety, risk management and compliance.

Cathie also has years of experience as an independent consultant in HR and WHS across a range of different small to large businesses across many industries.  Cathie is passionate about helping business to deal with the vast array of people and compliance issues they confront.

Cathie has a reputation for being able to define, articulate and embed core cultural values and behaviours across an organisation, and developing and delivering highly effective training and leadership programs.  Cathie is also able to reduce an organisation’s legal costs, mitigate risk and devise innovative, yet practical and cost effective solutions to address complex issues involving disparate stakeholders.

Cathie holds a Bachelor of Arts, Graduate Diploma in Industrial Relations and an Associate Diploma, Applied Science (OHS)  

Steve Lingard
Steve Lingard

Finance & Operations Manager

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Steve has been driving productivity and efficiency at major FMCG facilities for many years. He has previously held senior strategic roles at Fosters Group managing the Capital Expenditure Program globally as well as Transformation and Integration Programs.

He is passionate about maximising return on investment at every level.

Steve is responsible for being a Client liaison as well as supporting the fibreHR Team.