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Nikoleta Vlamis

CEO & Founder

Having founded the firm in 2013, Nikoleta’s strategic, innovative and co-creation orientation guides the way the firm is experienced within the management consulting sector. The ethos of the firm, often described as refreshing, is rooted in fundamentals that have held consistent as the firm evolves and underpins the purpose of the firm: To uplift the human experience in business.

Day to day and often to ensure forward motion and momentum, Nikoleta moves fluidly between divergent and convergent practices enabling leaders to live with complexity, accelerate decision making and build cohesion in executive teams. Clients often experience Nikoleta as both a connector and a steady guide, especially in times of high change and ambiguity.

With the muse of the firm being: The leader who discerns possibilities that matter to many, Nikoleta looks to ask this question and follow that thread daily.

 
 
Albazini Van Wyk​ Team

Albazini Van Wyk​

Market Essentials & Strategy Lead

Albazini’s organic strengths of strategy thinking and doing, a seeking of innovative plays combined with an entrepreneurial essence, shapes the way Albazini shows up in the Market Essentials and Strategy role at this point in the firm’s evolution.

With an educational foundation in design and art, Albazini is known for architecting strategic visuals that enable executives to tell impactful stories and move through ambiguity with good enough clarity. Albazini is a lead builder in the firm. In these builds, clients experience the value of contextualizing content. It is often shared in ways such as: “I just love the piece that Albazini and his team built—it really resonates with me.” And the follow on is all the actions that they will take from this.

Albazini’s personal commitment to his own learning and next gen thinking inspires the team day to day to stretch more and be not only interested in, but to see, what is possible.

Wenchi Wu Operations Lead, Client Value - Team

Wenchi Wu

Government Initiatives & Enablement Lead

As the Government Initiatives & Enablement Lead, Wenchi is in a new role for the organization, and one that can only come on the basis of years of experience in the firm, specifically in the management of client systems, and also a deep grounding in the organization’s processes.

Day to day, Wenchi connects client needs to delivery in a Wenchi-booster way, all grounded in the company’s ethos from many angles. Known for her ability to listen deeply and drive momentum, Wenchi brings a thoughtful way to her work. Clients often describe Wenchi as a warm presence in the firm, and one that can establish a sense of relating even after a few emails.

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Kelly Breedon

Capability Development Leader

Kelly’s orientation beautifully blends business strategy, organizational culture, and capability development. With time spent as a Chief People Officer, together with over 20 years’ experience in Senior Executive People and Culture Leadership roles across industries, Kelly bridges business and organizational acumen to enable healthy and acquisitive change and growth.

As a trusted coach and advisor to CHROs and senior leaders, Kelly guides towards organizational health through the flow of enterprise objectives, talent, and capability levels calibrated with business priorities. Kelly’s reflective, strengths-based perspective enables capability at the organization, team, and individual level. Certified as a Gallup CliftonStrengths® Coach and in the Leadership 360 Circle Profile, Kelly elevates leadership teams with an eye to levers such as culture, decision-making, organization structure, capabilities, and end-to-end team member experience.

Kelly’s perspective and approach is grounded in the premise that meaningful change happens when people, strategy, and systems evolve together—unlocking possibilities in each moment, including ones of inherent tension.

Rohan Cherian - Team

Rohan Cherian

Enablement & Innovation Coach; Systems & Processes

Rohan spends his days enabling innovation and capability with teams, individuals and across the organization. With close to two decades of experience in digital, product design, and delivery, Rohan thrives in conversations with teams and leaders as they evolve their digital ecosystems in the era of AI-enabled work and all the re-tooling and re-skilling that comes with that.

Rohan brings a thoughtful, coaching-oriented approach. Experienced as a storyteller, Rohan helps to clarify direction, design user-centered solutions, and move transformation forward with intention. Technology is at the core of all Rohan does, paired with the vital human experience.

Always willing to do the heavy lift of his own personal learning and deep dives, this orientation organically assists, inspires and enables teams on how to think, design, and deliver in complex environments.

Mayank Shiroya - Team

Mayank Shiroya

Product Designer – Business Enablement

Mayank brings a multi-faceted lens to all his work. With a background in experience and interaction design, Mayank blends a technical orientation with thoughtful involvement in supporting consistent, high-quality client experiences.

Skilled in front-end development, digital channel management, and design, Mayank brings strong capabilities in visual storytelling—core to the firm’s approach, website evolution, and CRM platform management.

Most recently, Mayank is leading the development of Canopy, an enablement platform for team scaling, template and asset sustainment, shared learning, and collective ways of working. Mayank’s personal interest in exploring what is technically new to enable innovation contributes to new platform and automation efforts—including AI integration—positioning the firm for long-term longevity and relevance.

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Victoria Galimanis

Business Operations & Administration Lead

Victoria plays a role across Healthy Growth and Experience Tracks at Nikoleta & Associates. With a background in commerce and marketing, Victoria holds an intentional focus on organization with a strength in general process management.

In leading the firm’s OKR process, Victoria both manages the six-month development cycle and ensures it is embedded into the day-to-day of the team. Victoria shepherds the firm’s experience tracks, which map the journey of team members through key moments and gateways. Most recently, Victoria has leaned into government grants as a key funding avenue for the firm’s financial strategy.

With early experience in strategic research and go-to-market, and having started as the first member of the Beyond Internship program, Victoria brings a depth of continuity and presence across the chapters of the firm’s growth.

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Heather Palm

Senior Organization Change Consultant

Heather’s passion is organizational design and everything associated with it. With over three decades of experience in this work, Heather is fluent in all things restructuring, mapping new organizations, and all the transitions that come with this.

Since the early days of the organization, Heather has been part of the mix. Whether it was for Microsoft, Toys R Us, or most recently Holt Renfrew, Heather shares her knowledge and ideas. One of the projects of most interest to Heather was the People Due Diligence within Mergers & Acquisitions. As a key member of the iQ Metrix team, Heather began the final report during the first week of the speedy project. This frame allowed the team to hold focus while also being able to facilitate and lead the inherent side roads of this work that unfold daily.

As a member of many engagement teams over the years, the team and clients can rely on Heather to always respond in an emotionally time-sensitive way—not just timely, but when it matters.

Devan Moodley - Team

Devan Moodley

Advisory Board: Finance & Strategy

President + CEO Pllenty 

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