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After a stellar career on brands including NapiSan and Preen, Kristie moved from marketing whiter whites to RED in 2008! Leading the RedBalloon consumer marketing team, she’s overseen milestones including our first TV commercial, RedBalloon’s first steps into offline retail, and unprecedented consumer growth of over 60 per cent in FY 2011. In 2012 Kristy stepped into the role of Acting CEO where she has excelled, while still juggling her duties heading up the consumer side of the business where her marketing acumen drives a passionate team of RedBallooners.

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Matt is the Head of Corporate Services and joined RedBalloon in July 2008 following a five-year stint in the UK. With more than 12 years corporate marketing experience across a range of B2B industries, from tourism and publishing to online mapping, Matt has found his home in a business where they practice what they preach and 'mix business with pleasure'!

Responsible for heading up the corporate sales and marketing teams, Matt provides his guidance to ensure delivery of first-class customer experience and reward and recognition programs for RedBalloon clients including Qantas, Virgin Mobile, Commonwealth Bank, Telstra and Origin.

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Working as One - Human Capital

Matt shares some insights on teambuilding following the results of a recent RedBalloon survey looking into the role of these exercises on employee engagement.

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Changing people’s behaviour is hard and how they feel even harder. James has been working in this area for his whole career, first designing personal development programs for hard to reach and underprivileged kids in some of the poorest regions of the UK, then in ad-land getting people to switch brands, trial new products and buy stuff they didn’t know they wanted. Now, as Corporate Engagement Specialist at RedBalloon, James works with corporations seeking behavioural changes in their employees that result in higher engagement, increased productivity and healthier bottom lines, as well as undertaking studies in Engagement Capability to identify what skills organisation’s need in order to drive performance through engaged people.

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The Happiness Factor - HR Monthly

James takes a look at the emotional drivers and their role in employee satisfaction. On working at RedBalloon, James says "We guarantee this will be a fun place to work where you're appreciated and you've got the right tools to do the job. It's as simple as that?" Well said James.

Keys to getting employees to engage more effectively - Business News WA

James shares insights from the 2012 RedBalloon/AltusQ Employee Engagement Capabilities Report.

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Megan is responsible for how RedBalloon employees experience working at RedBalloon. Her entrepreneurial approach to RedBalloon’s reward and recognition, learning and development and recruitment practices has enabled the company to achieve an engagement score of over 90 per cent three years in a row, and been named one of six Hewitt Best Employers in 2009. RedBalloon has also made the top 50 in the BRW Best Places to Work survey three years running. She has been recognised for excellence twice in Human Capital Magazine’s ‘Who’s Who of HR’ edition, as well as taking out the 2011 AHRI HR Practitioner of the Year Award. Megan is available to share the secrets behind RedBalloon’s engagement success at conferences - contact philippa@redballoon.com.au for information.

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Who's Who of HR - Human Capital

Megan has made Human Capital Magazines "Who's Who of HR" identifying the industry's movers and shakers of the last 12 months. It's certainly no surpirse to everyone at RedBalloon. Well done Megan and everyone else listed! It's great to see so many of our clients on the list too.

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After running her own PR agency for a decade, Phil joined RedBalloon to work alongside founding director Naomi. Not only does Phil manages Naomi’s public speaking, she also speaks herself on the experience of working directly with one of Australia’s leading female entrepreneurs and the role public relations has had in developing trust and awareness of the RedBalloon business and culture.

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