Organisational consultancy Bendelta brings in new senior leaders
Organisational consultancy Bendelta is bolstering its senior expertise as it takes the baton from Inventium in compiling the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list.
Itself a perennial top ten ‘Best Places to Work’, Bendelta was last year tapped to take over as the annual compilation’s research and methodology partner from behavioural science consultancy Inventium, which has carried out the assessments since the list’s inception in 2021.
Bendelta has since been bolstering its expertise ahead of this year’s release via several senior recruits, including Charlotte Rush from Inventium. Others to have joined Bendelta over the past period include former Workplace Gender Equality Agency executive manager Penelope Cottrill and ex-Ernst & Young client director Frankie Close as principals.
Based out of Melbourne, Penelope Cottrill joins after serving for the past two years as education & research executive manager at WGEA, before which she was a principal at Deloitte and Nous Group, the latter where she spent over a decade and half and led the consultancy’s national organisational performance & leadership practice after having started out with close to a decade at Accenture.
“Throughout my career, I’ve been committed to working with leaders to shape workplaces where people can thrive to achieve extraordinary things,” Cottrill said. “For me, being part of a truly great workplace is non-negotiable, so Bendelta is a great fit. I’m thrilled to be working directly with business leaders to define what ‘best places to work’ means in an era of rapid and complex change.”
Frankie Close likewise crosses to Bendelta as a principal in Sydney, bringing more than two decades worth of organisational development advisory experience in Australia and the UK, including six years at EY and its 2021 acquisition Lane4 out of London. Most recently, she has been with executive search agency Gerard Daniels and at Macquarie Group as a people & culture director.
Having been closely involved in ‘Best Places to Work’ evaluations since the beginning, Charlotte Rush now joins Bendelta – in fact ‘returns’, after having interned with the consultancy as a provisional psychologist back in 2016. For most of the interim, Rush has been at Inventium in a variety of senior roles, including time as head of learning and product development alongside growth.
Best Places to Work
After four consecutive appearances, Bendelta naturally won’t feature on the latest best workplaces list which will be released next month. The consulting sector was well-represented last year, with tech boutique SixPivot named overall top company and Slalom taking home the title in the medium-sized bracket. Grosvenor meanwhile topped the professional services category.
