HB10 Faculty

With over 30 years in strategy, marketing and innovation, Kym Hamer is an international leadership and personal branding coach, and a leadership design and facilitation practitioner working with teams and organisation across the world. She is also the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams and individuals to create reputation, presence and gravitas – to be visible with intention – and works with leaders globally to inspire, align and engage thinking and behaviour to achieve results and leave a legacy.

Kym is passionate about inspiring and equipping people to create more high value opportunities by unlocking their greatest asset – themselves – and has worked with a broad range of sectors including Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Construction and Engineering, Travel and Leisure, Finance and Insurance, Healthcare and Pharmaceutical as well as Higher Education, Research and Digital Media. She has worked with Homeward Bound since 2020, in a variety of roles – as faculty facilitator, LSI Coach, Faculty Lead for HB8 as well as being part of the submissions team for participant selection and voyaging to Antarctica in November 2023 as part of the on-board faculty.

Kym is one of Thinkers360’s Top 50 Global Influencers in Leadership, Top 20 in Marketing and Personal Branding and, for 4 years running, has been one of Thinkers360’s Top 10 Thought Leaders in Entrepreneurship. In 2023, she was recognised as one of Thinkers360s Top Voices globally. She is the host of the chart-topping Building Brand You™ podcast, currently in its 9th season.

Whether on the Members Board for Copthall School, a Member of the Advisory Board for The Time Capsule Project, or a Founding Board Member of CXSA Middle East, Kym champions shared experience, education and generative practice as the foundations for building a resilient and sustainable future for humankind.

Fabian Dattner is well known to many Australians. She is founding partner of Dattner Group, highly regarded leadership experts. Dattner Group include: Compass, a national leadership initiative for women; Kacha, a women-forward recruitment firm; and Re:think, a transformational leadership consultancy. Fabian is widely recognised for her commitment to helping from Board to basement. She’s a speaker, educator and social entrepreneur, and a regular commentator in the media on leadership and ethical issues in the world today, and on the role of women in building a sustainable future. She has won many awards for her work. Fabian is the dreamer and Co-founder of Homeward Bound.

Simon is the lead coach for the Homeward Bound program and has been a coach for participants on the program since it commenced in 2015.

A highly experienced coach, Simon is passionate about empowering people to be more constructive thinkers and leaders who deliver sustainably excellent business results. His experience has been gained in senior roles in both the public and private sectors in Australia and as a consultant with a major international consulting firm. He has worked with CEOs to team leaders and frontline staff in Australia and internationally.

Simon’s private sector management roles have included the HR Director of a national manufacturing industry association and the senior manager in charge of leadership and management development in a major Australian bank. In the past five years he’s provided coaching to more than 350 managers and executives.

Simon is accredited in the Human Synergistics suite of development tools including LSI1 and 2, the Group Styles Inventory, the Organisation Culture and Effectiveness Inventories as well as Leadership Impact and Management Impact. He’s accredited in the Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey and the Team Management Profile.

Nirvani has extensive technology experience. She has worked in multi-disciplinary environments and has driven the strategy and implementation of technology in all of these environments. Despite coming from a technology background, Nirvani has a passion for working with people and believes that optimum results are delivered in a motivated, empowering, positive work environment.Nirvani is also driving the Sustainability goals for the department. She was a part of HB5 and a participant on HB Ushuaia Voyage 2023. She enjoys running, reading and travelling. Nirvani’s aim is to lead by example and to drive the up-liftment of females to achieve greater purpose.

Aaniyah has 15 years of experience in the conservation sector with an emphasis on finding the balance for what is good for the Earth and good for the people. She is the founder of The Beach Co-op that aims to build communities that care for our marine environment. Aaniyah was a founding fellow for the Women for the Environment in Africa leadership programme in 2021 and has since joined the delivery team. She is in the final stages of her PhD research at Rhodes University.

Kit Jackson is a founding member of the Homeward Bound faculty and has been an active contributor to HB for over nine years. She has been the Strategy Stream Lead and Facilitator for all HB cohorts, voyaging to Antarctica with HB1, HB4 and HB6. In her tenth year with HB, she has taken the role of Lead Facilitator for HB9.

Hilary McManus is a full professor of environmental sciences at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. She teaches about the science of the climate crisis in the classroom and local community and serves on various committees developing frameworks for more sustainable and climate-resilient communities. She aims to nurture the current and next generations of environmental stewards through hands-on experiences connecting with nature and leadership coaching.