Joanna Georgalis

Executive summary

Joanna is a Partner in BDO’s People Advisory team in Melbourne.

She is committed to supporting clients’ transformational and sustainable change to achieve strategic objectives. With a track record in managing complex change through the lenses of people, process, and technology, Joanna is skilled at identifying the change required and defining how it is delivered to meet expected project outcomes. Her passion for effecting real change and her pragmatic problem-solving approach drive her ability to deliver the best possible client outcomes.

Joanna's extensive experience across diverse industries and business areas empowers her to build strong relationships at all levels of an organisation. This allows her to diagnose business challenges’ root causes and develop practical solutions to foster improvement and growth.

Recently, she has concentrated on helping clients review their strategic and operational performance to uncover transformation and growth opportunities through operational excellence, with a particular focus on people and processes. Joanna is passionate about leading behavioural change and guiding clients to achieve their most critical strategic objectives through their workforce.

Expertise

• Strategy reviews, development, and planning
• Business transformation
• Performance improvement
• Organisational and operating model design
• Change management
• Program management
• Workforce capability
• Process optimisation
• Program design and evaluation
• Research design and analytics
• Market analysis and diversification strategies
• Pre-merger intent planning
• Post-merger integration health checks

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce (Management) (Honours)
• Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
• PRINCE2 Project Management Certified Practitioner
• PROSCI Change Management Certified Practitioner

Professional engagements and activities

• Contributor, How school leaders can navigate HR’s trickiest challenges, 27 November 2024
• Lead author, ‘Change process characteristics and resistance to organisational change: The role of employee perceptions of justice’, Australian Journal of Management
• Presenter, ‘HR risks in the education sector’, 2024 Educate Plus International Conference
• Facilitator, Public Sector Network 2024 Victorian HR Innovation Roadshow
• President, Pinewood Preschool, 2025