Team
Who we are
Experienced. Exemplary. Effective.
Our trans-disciplinary team offers our clients the benefits of an integrated, well-balanced approach to all our products and services.
Dr Rebecca Michalak
Managing Director
BA Psych (Hons), MBA, MMR, PhD (Business)
Assoc MAPS, Psychologist (Prov), CAHRI
Certified Trainer & Assessor, TMS Accredited Practitioner
Combining a uniquely transdisciplinary background with 25+ years experience in senior management, human resources, and consulting roles in the private, public, and NFP sectors, Dr Becs drives a transformative business risk and ESG agenda to (re-)create b.a.u. As PsychSafe’s founder, a big picture thinker, and wicked problem solver, her specialist expertise lies prosecution risk profiling, psychosocial risk assessment and comparative benchmarking, psychological health and safety culture maturity assessment, psychological safety, and work (re-)design.
David Paterson
Senior Organisational Psychologist & Solutionist
MPsych (Org), BBus (Account), CPA, MAPS, FCO, MAICD
Before taking the leap into organisational psychology, David thrived in careers as an Armoured Corps Officer in the Defence Force, and as a CPA in commerce and consulting. Passionate about doing business better through people, David now specialises in designing good work through people, processes and systems and supporting organisational change. With deep expertise in organisational design, psychosocial hazard management, and behaviour change at scale, David’s commitment to seeing people thrive at work is driven by his evidence-savvy perspective that good work is good for people, and that healthy organisations support healthy communities.
Dr Dave Anthony
Senior Psychologist (Psychosocial Risk & Performance)
PhD, MAppPsych, BPsych, Grad Dip Psych
An endorsed Sports & Exercise psychologist, Dr Dave has circa two decades experience providing psychological support in various high-performance settings such as defence (including war zones), professional sport, board rooms, mining and energy, and following natural disasters. Dr Dave specialises in developing evidence-informed strategies and programs targeting psychosocial factors that enhance human functioning and performance, regardless of operating environment or organisational level. His aim is to embed programs into teams for the long term, to facilitate and reinforce actual behaviour change. This approach creates positive impacts on individual capability and team relationships, as well as improving safety, efficiency, and the organisation’s bottom line.
Brendan Turner
Psychologist & Psychotherapist (Trauma)
BSc (Psych), PGDip Psych
After a successful career in professional services, Brendan became a registered psychologist and psychotherapist. He now specialises in trauma, such as applying trauma-informed practices in organisations including investigations, psychological assessment, critical incident response, workforce preventative care, and post-incident recovery/rehabilitation.
Anoushka Dowling
Psychologist (Diversity, Belonging, & Psychological Safety)
B PsychSc (Hons)
With a comprehensive background in evidence-savvy occupational, domestic, and family violence education and intervention, Anoushka is a specialist in creating safe, inclusive work cultures. She focusses on improving diversity, equity and inclusion practices to build and sustain psychological safety, including educating and empowering bystanders through dynamic, interactive capability building programs.
Jon Chan
High Performance Psychologist
BA Psych (Hons), BBusMgt, Masters of Sport and Exercise Psychology
AHPRA, MAPS, CoSEP, ASPASP
Jon is a performance psychologist with extensive local and international experience in oil/gas, construction, mining/resources, utilities, and professional services. With a special interest in mental toughness and leadership, he focusses on strengthening capability, culture, and performance in critical change and growth projects, leveraging LEAN principles to effectively deal with the ambiguity associated with people, culture, performance, and innovative product development.
Siena Jachowski
Executive Officer (Programs & Research)
BSc Psych, MAPS
A detail-orientated professional with enviable energy and a genuine passion for all things ‘people and psychology at work’, Siena provides program coordination, research and administrative support to Dr Becs and the wider PsychSafe team.