Liana Brover is a Senior Legal Consultant of Mercer Legal Pty Ltd, a boutique law firm, where she works with clients in implementing and advising on regulatory and other legal requirements.

Liana is also a Principal in Mercer’s Governance Consulting team. Liana provides governance consulting services to organisations in the financial services and non-for-profit sectors.

Prior to her current role, Liana was the Company Secretary for Mercer companies in Australia where she established and led the secretariat team.

She has also advised clients on a diverse range of governance matters including director duties, conflicts of interests as well as governance structures and frameworks. She works collaboratively with clients to provide practical, tailored solutions to complex issues.

Liana regularly presents AIST Advanced Trustee Director course module on “Governance”.

Liana holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws from Monash University.

Frederick is a Principal in Mercer’s Workforce Solutions consulting business based in Sydney.

Over the past 20 years, Frederick has been supporting boards and management of publicly listed and private companies on people strategies, including all elements of executive remuneration and broad-based workforce reward.

Prior to joining Mercer, Frederick worked at EY and PwC. He has supported many financial services (FS) clients on executive remuneration, board governance, and regulatory compliance. Frederick has partnered with several ADIs (incl. AMP, CUA, Cuscal, Defence Bank, NPBS, Police Bank) to implement the BEAR. He has also led projects across other FS clients (incl. Genworth, Hostplus, IOOF, QSuper/ Sunsuper) in relation to the CPS 511 and FAR.

Frederick also provides consulting support for companies embarking on organisation risk culture and reward transformation. Most recently, he helped develop a culture-led performance management and reward frameworks using design-thinking approach for a newly merged large FS company in Australia.

Frederick received an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM). He also holds a Masters of Industrial Relations with specialisation in Human Resources, and a Masters of Science in Major Programme Management awarded (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford, UK.

Frederick is also a faculty member of WorldatWork, and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

May leads Mercer’s Career Employee Experience and Culture team. May has over 20 years’ experience that combines in-house strategic HR and organisational psychology qualifications from studied in London, Singapore and Australia.

As a diagnostic specialist, May has led international complex projects in Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Risk and Safety culture development, Organisational culture transformations, and Change Management and Design Thinking.  Completing a post-graduate thesis in cultural identity during M&As, May takes both a behavioural and pragmatic approach to supporting people transformations within organisational contexts. As an Executive Coach, May works closely with leadership of all levels to understand how to optimise workplace culture to drive high performance. With over a decade based in London and Asia, May’s attune to culturally diverse challenges across multi-site organisations across industries including professional services firms, airlines, not-for-profit organisations, government departments, telecommunications, utilities and the technology sector.

May holds a Masters of Science (Organisational Psychology) (Distinction), London Met University, and completed Undergraduate Psychology studies in Australia. May is qualified in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Level A & B psychometrics.