Fiona Marshall - People Strategy & Organisational Transformation
CULTIVATING CULTURE AND EMPOWERING PEOPLE
Building High-Performing Organisations Through People Strategy, Culture, and Workforce Leadership
Fiona is a senior human resources and people strategy executive with extensive experience leading large, complex workforces in the construction, manufacturing, and industrial services sectors. She partners with boards, executive teams, and investors to build the people capability, safety culture, and organisational frameworks that enable businesses to perform, scale, and transform with confidence.
With a career spanning roles as Executive General Manager and General Manager across multi-site, operationally intensive businesses, Fiona brings a practitioner’s understanding of what it takes to align people strategy with business outcomes — from workforce planning and talent development to enterprise safety and industrial relations. She has led people and culture functions through periods of rapid growth, structural change, and operational turnaround.
Her approach is grounded in clear-eyed organisational diagnosis, genuine engagement with operational realities, and a commitment to building cultures of accountability and high performance. Fiona helps organisations identify the people and structural levers that drive sustainable results — and to implement change that sticks.
Areas of Expertise
People strategy & workforce planning: Designing and executing people strategies that align human capital with business growth, operational performance, and organisational transformation objectives.
Culture, engagement & change management: Leading cultural transformation programs across large, dispersed workforces — building the engagement, values alignment, and behavioural frameworks that underpin high-performance organisations.
Health, safety & compliance: Embedding safety leadership and WHS management systems across complex, high-risk operational environments in construction, manufacturing, and industrial services.
Talent management & capability development: Building leadership pipelines, succession frameworks, and capability programs that develop organisational depth and resilience.
Organisational design & restructuring: Advising on organisational structure, workforce rightsizing, and role design in the context of business transformation, integration, and performance improvement mandates.
Industrial relations & enterprise agreement management: Managing complex ER environments across unionised and non-unionised workforces in highly regulated, operationally critical industries.
Proven Track Record
General Manager, People & Safety at Rangedale: Executive leadership of all people, culture, and safety functions across one of Australia’s leading infrastructure and industrial services businesses — a workforce of 360+ personnel operating a fleet of 350+ vehicles across drainage, construction, and industrial cleaning.
Executive General Manager, People, Culture & Safety at Simonds Group: Senior executive responsibility for the entire people and safety function at one of Australia’s largest residential construction groups — spanning talent, culture, industrial relations, and safety across a large, geographically dispersed workforce.
Group Manager, Human Resources at Ryco: HR leadership across a manufacturing and distribution business in the tyres and rubber industry, overseeing talent management, organisational development, and workforce strategy across multiple sites.
Early career in agricultural chemicals: Foundational HR experience at Nufarm, a global crop protection and agricultural chemicals company, building core recruitment, workforce planning, and HR operations capabilities.
Approach
Fiona believes that people strategy is operational strategy — and that the gap between organisational intent and day-to-day performance is almost always a people and culture problem in disguise. She works alongside leadership teams to understand the true state of an organisation’s human capital: where capability is strong, where it is stretched, and what structural or cultural changes are required to build a workforce that performs with consistency. Whether navigating a period of growth, restructuring, or transformation, her focus is on practical, sustainable change that earns genuine engagement from the people it affects.
