Lunch with a Leader – Perth – Collene Castle

Collene is a proud, strong Menang Ngudju Noongar yok (woman) with kinship connections throughout the Noongar and Yamatji regions in WA. Collene has an excellent understanding of what’s needed on the ground to coach organisations through their reconciliation journey.

Collene has 25+ years experience across many industries and her strengths include:

• Developing strategy
• Stakeholder engagement
• Reconciliation Action Plan development and implementation
• Coaching CEOs/Managers/Supervisors of Aboriginal employees
• Mentoring Aboriginal employees
• Workshop facilitation and events management
• Interview preparation
• Development of Aboriginal Employment Plans
• Aboriginal specific engagement
• Aboriginal policy development

With broad experience in building Aboriginal Engagement and Employment Strategies, Collene is expert at identifying gaps and solutions in employer’s attraction, recruitment and retention processes with demonstrated successful outcomes.  Collene has many years of experience developing Reconciliation Action Plans. She is a member of the West Coast Eagles RAP committee along with her work on the National GHD RAP Committee.

Collene’s lifetime contribution to the national reconciliation agenda and enhancing Aboriginal prosperity was recently honoured at the 2022 NAIDOC awards, where she was awarded the 2022 WA NAIDOC Outstanding Achiever Award.

In January 2023, Collene was appointed as in Independent Director of Water Research Australia, the first First Nations person to be represented on the Board of WRA.