Meet the ACP Team
“Bridging generations is the greatest leadership challenge of our time.”
Anna Pitman
Founder AND Chair – Bridging Generations, Elevating Women, Redefining Leadership
Anna Pitman is the Founder and Principal Consultant of ACP Consulting Group, a Western Australian leadership consultancy that helps technical experts in industries such as mining, engineering and finance transform into adaptive, emotionally intelligent leaders. Rooted in neuroscience and psychology, ACP’s programs have doubled the business’s revenue since 2019, expanded into international markets, and are now scaling through its Rising Leaders online platform to equip thousands of leaders nationally and globally.
ACP is trusted across corporate, government, education, community, and creative sectors, from banks and engineering firms to the government agencies, schools, not-for-profits, Aboriginal Corporations, and cultural institutions. Through these partnerships, ACP has worked with thousands of leaders across WA, nationally, and internationally.
ACP’s long-term partnerships prove this impact. For example, with a national mining manufacturer we helped increase revenue by nearly 50%, more than double profits, and shift from a conflict-avoidant culture to one of the most engaged workforces in the sector.
Beyond ACP, Anna is the Chair of Meridian Global, a philanthropic engine that has grown its investment fund from $86,000 to over $800,000 and has already distributed $644,000 to 44 charities worldwide, with a commitment to support at least one Western Australian charity each year. Meridian’s long-term vision is bold: to give away $1 million annually in perpetuity by 2040.
Anna’s leadership is also deeply personal. As a mother of three, including a five-year-old daughter with a severe disability under palliative care, she has mobilised more than $112,000 for gene therapy research. This lived experience grounds her leadership in resilience, empathy, and purpose, positioning her as a trusted thought leader in navigating complexity and uncertainty.
Anna combines her credentials as an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a degree from the University of Western Australia, and postgraduate studies in positive psychology and leadership with practical experience transforming leaders across industries.
Anna is recognised for combining commercial growth with inclusive culture change, creating a legacy of leadership that is both profitable and deeply human.
As a Gen Y leader, Anna brings a fresh perspective and is unafraid to challenge the status quo. In today’s digital era, ACP helps organisations bridge the intergenerational gap equipping leaders to move beyond traditional approaches and thrive in complexity.
Nicole Heffernan
Coach and Facilitator
Nicole Heffernan is an Organisational Development Consultant, Coach and Facilitator with over 10 years’ experience working across a diverse range of industries, including construction, mining, processing, oil and gas, power generation, agriculture, government, education, hospitality and finance. She specialises in applying current research in Psychology and Neuroscience to address everyday challenges for organisations and their people. Driven by her passion for helping people to achieve the highest version of themselves.
Nicole’s ability to build strong relationships at all levels of an organisation, and to translate complex problems into simple, applied solutions means that she has experienced significant success with both coaching and consulting clients. She is often described as down-to-earth and practical by those who engage her services and is a highly engaging and entertaining facilitator.
Nicole holds a Bachelor of Psychology with Honours as well as a Post Graduate Certificate in Applied Coaching. In addition, she holds a Certificate IV in both Training and Assessment, and Work Health and Safety. Nicole is also accredited in a number of diagnostic tools including Human Synergistics’ Life Styles Inventory (LSI) and Group Styles Inventory (GSI), Marshall Goldsmith’s Global Leadership 360 Assessment (GLA), and the Extended DISC.
Nicole prides herself on her unwavering commitment to drive sustainable change for her clients and regularly goes above and beyond to ensure they are fully supported in achieving the outcomes they desire.
James Reti
Coach and Facilitator
Driven by his interest and passion for psychology and leadership, James has over 13 years of international experience in adult education, training facilitation and coaching. James is passionate about people and understanding how we adapt and change. Alongside program facilitation, James has worked with clients to conduct competency assessments; identify skills gaps and challenges and design and implement strategies to facilitate large-scale organisational change.
James has partnered with organisations across a broad range of sectors conducting interventions centred around human psychology and optimising performance. James’ coaching experience has seen him engage with Executive and Senior Leaders, middle management, and team members around the globe. James’ coaching approach offers leaders and team members a process to optimise strengths and improve opportunities to achieve a higher level of performance and positive impact.
Ryan Ng
Organisational Psychologist
Ryan is a People and Culture Psychologist with a background in education, technology, and data science, and published studies in the fields of personality, negotiation, and neuropsychology. He employs an innovative, holistic and strengths-based approach to combining advances in psychology and technology for supporting data-informed, people-centric decisions that better drive success for everyone.
Ryan is the Founder of Talent Identify – a profiling assessment that enables organisations to build more effective teams, drive ideal culture and align hiring, by equipping people and leaders with deeper workforce analytics that support informed decisions for success.
Renae Walsh
Registered Psychologist
Renae, B(Psych), BPsych(Adv)is a psychologist who works with adults, however, also sees adolescent and child clients. Following the completion of her degrees at both Curtin University and Monash University, Renae has worked in brief intervention for individuals struggling with their mental health as well as in private, government and not for profit services.
Her expertise now covers a broad spectrum of psychological issues impacting adults, adolescents, or children such as anxiety, depression, adjustment to life changes, personal growth, relationship issues (individual, couples and family therapy), school/study issues, self-esteem and confidence and work-related/career stress.
Renae works across a range of different evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution Focused Therapy. Renae is passionate about her clients and holds high standards of professional ethics and client confidentiality. A calm and personable practitioner, Renae is someone with whom clients feel a sense of genuine support and care.
Madelaine Fisher
Coach and Facilitator
Madelaine brings knowledge and skill in helping teams and communities to cope well with difficulties and change with resilience and emotional intelligence. With a background in Law, Psychology and Indigenous Studies, Madelaine has extensive experience working in high level, executive and advisory roles.
Madelaine has two main focusses being neuroscience and wellbeing, as well as governance. She has worked in Governance and Organisational Development for over a decade consulting to leaders and teams in not-for-profits to drive effective results and engagement.
Madelaine holds a Bachelor of Laws from Bond University and is an experienced Director and current Independent Director of Ngarlawangga Decision Making Committee and is currently enrolled in the Graduate Certificate of Social Impact at University of Western Australia as well as making her way through a Masters of Business Administration (MBA). Madelaine also holds her Graduate Diploma of Practical Legal Training and Governance for Not for Profits and Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICDs).
In the well-being space Madelaine is a highly experienced Facilitator holding a Diploma in Positive Psychology and Wellbeing as well as being a qualified 250+ hour registered Yoga Teacher and Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher. Madelaine is the owner Myu Retreats and runs yoga retreats around the world. Madelaine is accredited in the Transforming Self through Values Program ™ as well as the Barretts Values Diagnostic.
Aimee Smart
Coach and Facilitator
Aimee is an organisational development facilitator, coach, and consultant with over a decade of experience facilitating across a range of industries, with particular experience in the engineering, manufacturing, tertiary education, health, fitness and cosmetic sectors.
She holds a bachelor’s degree, majoring in Psychology and Counselling, with First Class Honours. She has published psychological research on self-esteem, objectification, and consumer behaviour. Aimee constantly strives for mastery in both her own consulting practice and that of her clients. Her sincerity, authenticity and easy-going nature allows her to build strong relationships within organisations.
Her comfort with vulnerability and challenging emotions fosters a sense of psychological safety and trust among those she works with, allowing them to get the most out of their learning and development.
Aimee has a keen analytic ability to identify complex or abstract problems, and makes quick links to effective, applied solutions for her clients. Aimee is also an accredited Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence test (MSCEIT) practitioner.
Olivia Day
Executive Business Partner
With an impressive resume, Liv has extensive experience in writing, customer service and administration, with over 14 years’ experience in front line roles. She is the Assistant to our Principal Consultant and Managing Director, Anna, and is responsible for the administration and marketing side of the business.
Managing all things behind the scenes, you are likely to hear from Olivia once we start working together as she organises much of our logistics to ensure a positive client relationship.